Enthusiasts and admirers of musical theatre and pop culture caught an enthralling overdose of Steven Schwartz on April 16th, when a star studded ensemble of one hundred performers gathered together at legendary Symphony Space on the Upper West Side to witness “Wall to Wall Stephen Schwartz,” a free eight-hour musical smorgasbord for the discriminate palate. […]
A medieval allegory unfolds as a mystical Voodoo Body Snatcher arrives at the occult after-life bar on a mission to execute a psychiatrist committed to his personal bedlam. The anti-hero and his Mad-Hatter co-conspirators are entangled in a perverse political hoopla as they fight for their survival in the face of the mighty Grim Reaper’s […]
Two one-act plays by Sophia Romma at the Cherry Lane Theater examine relationships that span cultures. Presented by the Negro Ensemble Company and directed by Charles Weldon. From The New York Times
The NYU Alumni Association (NYUAA) represents all NYU alumni, from every NYU school and department—a community nearly half-a-million strong. The diverse and active NYUAA Board of Directors is made up of alumni volunteers who steer the Association in their mission to engage and support alumni. Sophia Romma (TSOA ’95, ’97) is a veteran member of the Board and is […]
This week on HowlRound, we continue the conversation on gender parity, which has been gaining momentum this year through studies, articles, forums, one-on-one discussions, and seasons and festivals focused on women. As Co-President of the Women in the Arts & Media Coalition and VP of Programming for the League of Professional Theatre Women, I have the pleasure of […]
A Preface by John Farrell (Director) Sophia Romma is not your ordinary playwright. She is, rather, in a class all by herself. While some of her work conforms (slightly) to more conventional models (I conjure up, for example her elegiac portrait of exiled bi-sexual Russian poetess, Marina Tsvetaeva, the heroine of her play from The Past […]
NEW YORK, July 7 – The human condition of gays in contemporary Russia mirrors life in a phantasmagoric insane asylum. That's the view of a new play, "That Queer Blind Silence" (www.thatqueerblindsilence.com) by émigré playwright Sophia Romma. Her political farce, written in English but in the style of Russian Expressionism, depicts the ordeals of a fictional figure skater whose character was […]
In 2013, The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF)’s fourteenth season featured a slate of full-length plays and musicals, as well as Short Subjects. Sophia Romma's "The Past Is Still Ahead" was part of the line-up. Although Ms. Bodner had passed away suddenly in August of 2011 from breast cancer at the tender age of 43, […]
On August 8, 2015, the celebrated Theater Company Poongkyung shall present the production of “The Portrait of Marina Tsvetaeva" (original title: "The Past is Still Ahead" by internationally award-winning playwright, Dr. Sophia Romma. "The Theater Company Poongkyung is extremely excited to invite playwright Sophia Romma for this special premiere in Seoul, South Korea, as her […]