This cinematic excerpt from the play, The Past Is Still Ahead, pays homage to Soviet Avant-Garde, penned by Sophia Romma and directed by Sergey Levchin. The play was produced at the Cherry Lane Theater (circa 2007).

Written by Sophia Romma Directed by Yuri Joffe “Absolute Clarity” by Sophia Romma, directed by Yuri Joffe–a noted, Stanislavsky prize-winning director from Moscow’s Mayakovsky Academic Theater–will be presented by ArtVoice and Cinema Anastasia as an Off-Broadway production at the Players Theater, 115 Macdougal Street, January 25 to February 25. The play is loosely based on […]

“Absolute Clarity” by Sophia Romma, directed by Yuri Joffe–a noted, Stanislavski prize-winning director from Moscow’s Mayakovsky Academic Theater–will be presented by ArtVoice and Cinema Anastasia as an Off-Broadway production at the Players Theater, 115 MacDougal Street, January 31 to February 25. The play is loosely based on “She, in the Absence of Love and Death” […]

Despite name-checking CBGB and Delancey Street, this adaptation of the Russian playwright Edvard Radzinski’s She, in the Absence of Love and Death takes place in a geographical limbo—call it Manhattan on the Moskva. Its turgid vision of corrupt judges, sex-starved moms, and freewheeling bands of jazz-rappers survives the transition into English only superficially, leaving behind an entire submerged […]

Russian Television Network features an interview of the premiere of Sophia Romma’s play “Absolute Clarity” at the Players Theater (circa 2006), directed by Yuri Joffe of the celebrated Mayakovski Academic Art Theatre. Nina Vishneva hosts.

A few too many theatrical experiments are being conducted simultaneously in “Sickle,” a drama by Sophia Romma that would be more powerful if it were less clever. The play jumps around in time, switches between real and imagined conversation, and gives one central character a distracting speech impediment that serves little purpose. Also, it’s written, […]

“Shoot Them in the Cornfields” is the shattering tale of one Russian-Jewish family, spanning two love affairs and three generations. Initially the play held high promise. First, playwright Sophia Murashkovsky’s credentials are impressive, both professionally and personally. Murashkovsky, a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, is a playwright/screenwriter/poet whose […]

DIRECTED BY YURI JOFFE OF MOSCOW’S MAYAKOVSKY ACADEMIC THEATER This play was presented April 2 to 23, 2006 by Cinema Anastasia Productions at The Producers Club Theaters (PC2 Theater), 616 9th Avenue (between 43rd and 44th Streets), NYC. “Shoot Them in the Cornfields!”, a play by Sophia Murashkovsky, was directed in its world premiere in April, […]

Sputnik Hotel scene excerpted from Shoot Them In The Cornfields! at the Producer’s Club Theatre (II), starring Adepero Aduye.