42nd STREET
the ultimate show-biz musical
Maria returned to Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre to play Dorothy Brock in the show that celebrates Broadway, Times Square, and the people who make the magic of musical theatre!
Click here for Cast Info
Read Review from San Jose Mercury News Here
BILLY ELLIOT the musical
Dare to dream; dare to dance!
Maria was thrilled to return to Berkeley Playhouse to join the wonderful cast of this Tony Award-winning show, which broke box office records this past spring.
Read A Review from Mercury News
See Production Photos
SCROOGE IN LOVE!
a new holiday musical
Maria joined 42nd Street Moon playing the role of Mrs. Cratchit in this delightful new musical sequel to A Christmas Carol.
With music by Larry Grossman, lyrics by Kellen Blair, and book by Duane Pool, Scrooge In Love! was nominated for 8 Theatre Bay Area Awards, and winner of 2 (Best Featured Actor Jason Graae & Best Supporting Actor Ryan Drummond). This year's production was a smash-hit with audiences at the historic Marines' Memorial Theatre in San Francisco.
Visit 42nd Street Moon
MY FAIR LADY
a production celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere
Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre's 6th season kicked off with one of the most beloved musicals of all time, and enjoyed a sold-out run in November.
"Maria Mikheyenko and Matthew Kelly as the snooty socialites [Lady & Lord Boxington] from Ascot are both superb." - Vince Mediaa (Theatre Arts Reviews And Events)
Read Review Here
Meet the Cast
ENCHANTED APRIL
a pre-Broadway world premiere
Maria is thrilled and honored to have played the role of Francesca (the Housekeeper of San Salvatore) in Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre's world premiere of a new musical by award-winning lyricist Charles Leipart and composer Richard B. Evans.
The story is based on the 1922 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, which has also been produced as a Tony Award nominee for Best Play on Broadway and made into an Oscar-nominated film.
Directed by Broadway veteran Lois Grandi, this production of four British women who escape the confines of their post-Victorian, 1920s-London lifestyles to lounge, linger and fall in love with life's beauty while spending a month's holiday at a castle in Portofino, Italy was a hit with audiences.
SAIL AWAY
a west coast premiere
42nd Street Moon, one of the oldest professional companies worldwide devoted to the preservation and performance of “lost” musical theater, presented a rare production of Noel Coward’s first American musical in a West Coast Premiere at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco!
Broadway World Review
CITY OF ANGELS
a film noir jazz musical at Cinnabar Theater
Cy Coleman's Tony Award-winning musical, presented by Cinnabar Theater, enjoyed a successful 4 week run!
"Maria Mikheyenko [as femme fatale Alaura Kingsley] is strong-voiced, slinky, and playfully fetching..." - Petaluma critics
"...this is a gem of a piece, rarely done, done well and worth seeing!" -Richard Riccardi (For All Events)
"I only have one quibble — and it’s not with production or cast. It’s that this show should be seen more than once to fully appreciate the wit, humor, and sophisticated jazzy sound." - Katie Watts (Argus-Courier)
WHERE'S CHARLEY?
42nd Street Moon debut
This delightful Broadway revival (based on the play Charlie's Aunt by Brandon Thomas) with 42nd Street Moon
enjoyed a hugely successful run at the Eureka Theatre, and marked Ms. Mikheyenko's debut with the company.
"A special shout-out...to Noelani Neal, Katherine Leyva, and Maria Mikheyenko, who trio together in “The Gossips” as three ingénues who take time from dressing for the evening’s ball to spill the beans to each other on what they know (or think they know) about the goings-on around them. In exaggerated movements and antics, each gets a turn to sing forth the secrets she has acquired (of course, only after saying she cannot in any way share them)." - Theatre Eddys
Read Full Review
Meet the Cast & Creative Team
THE LARIAT
a world premiere chamber opera
The Lariat, a dark comic opera by Bay Area composer Lisa Scola Prosek, based on the 1927 novella by the poet and anthropologist Jaime de Angulo, had a successful world premiere at San Francisco's Thick House in January 2015.
Here's what the San Francisco Chronicle had to say:
"...the piece’s most inventive and arresting passages are for two pairs of animals — a couple of taut, hyper-alert bluebirds and the two smugly chirruping crickets... the music is evocative, and the singing of Maria Mikheyenko... appealing..." -- Joshua Kosman
Read Full Review
BERLIN TO BROADWAY WITH KURT WEILL
Masquers Playhouse
This rarely produced revue of the life and music of composer Kurt Weill sold out nearly every performance of its 4 week run, making it one of the most successful productions in Masquers Playhouse history.
Read Masquers Playhouse Newsletter
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Maria made her Hillbarn Theatre debut in the role of Mrs. Nordstrom in Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, A Little Night Music. Directed by Dennis Lickteig, this gem played for 18 performances to full and enthusiastic houses.
Read Review from Broadway World
DAUGHTER OF THE RED TZAR
a world premiere chamber opera
This new chamber opera, composed by Lisa Scola Prosek, in collaboration with First Look Sonoma, tells of the first dramatic meeting between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin in Moscow during 1942 that forever changed the course of history, as well as the story of Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, who defied her father, and eventually defecting to the west. The production, staged at Thick House in San Francisco, played 6 performances to full houses and rave reviews.
Read Review in SF Chronicle
HAPPY END
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Goat Hall Productions of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece was a big hit at Berkeley's Live Oak Theatre.
"The singing, the acting, the slapstick, the costumes were all fantastic... but most of all, the enthusiasm, commitment, and overwhelming talent displayed on stage clearly and directly communicated to the audience."
-- John Bilotta (composer)
Visit Goat Hall Website
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
a steam punk production by Jon Tracy
Audiences at Berkeley Playhouse raved about director Jon Tracy's punk rock version of this Gilbert & Sullivan swashbuckling adventure.
Read Review
CHICAGO
Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre
This production of the 2nd longest-running musical of all time was a smash at the Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton, playing most of it's 11 shows to sold out houses. Ms. Mikheyenko played Katalyn Hunyak, the Hungarian inmate of Cook County Jail who plead "not guilty" and paid the price.
Read Review Here
the ultimate show-biz musical
Maria returned to Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre to play Dorothy Brock in the show that celebrates Broadway, Times Square, and the people who make the magic of musical theatre!
Click here for Cast Info
Read Review from San Jose Mercury News Here
BILLY ELLIOT the musical
Dare to dream; dare to dance!
Maria was thrilled to return to Berkeley Playhouse to join the wonderful cast of this Tony Award-winning show, which broke box office records this past spring.
Read A Review from Mercury News
See Production Photos
SCROOGE IN LOVE!
a new holiday musical
Maria joined 42nd Street Moon playing the role of Mrs. Cratchit in this delightful new musical sequel to A Christmas Carol.
With music by Larry Grossman, lyrics by Kellen Blair, and book by Duane Pool, Scrooge In Love! was nominated for 8 Theatre Bay Area Awards, and winner of 2 (Best Featured Actor Jason Graae & Best Supporting Actor Ryan Drummond). This year's production was a smash-hit with audiences at the historic Marines' Memorial Theatre in San Francisco.
Visit 42nd Street Moon
MY FAIR LADY
a production celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere
Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre's 6th season kicked off with one of the most beloved musicals of all time, and enjoyed a sold-out run in November.
"Maria Mikheyenko and Matthew Kelly as the snooty socialites [Lady & Lord Boxington] from Ascot are both superb." - Vince Mediaa (Theatre Arts Reviews And Events)
Read Review Here
Meet the Cast
ENCHANTED APRIL
a pre-Broadway world premiere
Maria is thrilled and honored to have played the role of Francesca (the Housekeeper of San Salvatore) in Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre's world premiere of a new musical by award-winning lyricist Charles Leipart and composer Richard B. Evans.
The story is based on the 1922 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, which has also been produced as a Tony Award nominee for Best Play on Broadway and made into an Oscar-nominated film.
Directed by Broadway veteran Lois Grandi, this production of four British women who escape the confines of their post-Victorian, 1920s-London lifestyles to lounge, linger and fall in love with life's beauty while spending a month's holiday at a castle in Portofino, Italy was a hit with audiences.
SAIL AWAY
a west coast premiere
42nd Street Moon, one of the oldest professional companies worldwide devoted to the preservation and performance of “lost” musical theater, presented a rare production of Noel Coward’s first American musical in a West Coast Premiere at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco!
Broadway World Review
CITY OF ANGELS
a film noir jazz musical at Cinnabar Theater
Cy Coleman's Tony Award-winning musical, presented by Cinnabar Theater, enjoyed a successful 4 week run!
"Maria Mikheyenko [as femme fatale Alaura Kingsley] is strong-voiced, slinky, and playfully fetching..." - Petaluma critics
"...this is a gem of a piece, rarely done, done well and worth seeing!" -Richard Riccardi (For All Events)
"I only have one quibble — and it’s not with production or cast. It’s that this show should be seen more than once to fully appreciate the wit, humor, and sophisticated jazzy sound." - Katie Watts (Argus-Courier)
WHERE'S CHARLEY?
42nd Street Moon debut
This delightful Broadway revival (based on the play Charlie's Aunt by Brandon Thomas) with 42nd Street Moon
enjoyed a hugely successful run at the Eureka Theatre, and marked Ms. Mikheyenko's debut with the company.
"A special shout-out...to Noelani Neal, Katherine Leyva, and Maria Mikheyenko, who trio together in “The Gossips” as three ingénues who take time from dressing for the evening’s ball to spill the beans to each other on what they know (or think they know) about the goings-on around them. In exaggerated movements and antics, each gets a turn to sing forth the secrets she has acquired (of course, only after saying she cannot in any way share them)." - Theatre Eddys
Read Full Review
Meet the Cast & Creative Team
THE LARIAT
a world premiere chamber opera
The Lariat, a dark comic opera by Bay Area composer Lisa Scola Prosek, based on the 1927 novella by the poet and anthropologist Jaime de Angulo, had a successful world premiere at San Francisco's Thick House in January 2015.
Here's what the San Francisco Chronicle had to say:
"...the piece’s most inventive and arresting passages are for two pairs of animals — a couple of taut, hyper-alert bluebirds and the two smugly chirruping crickets... the music is evocative, and the singing of Maria Mikheyenko... appealing..." -- Joshua Kosman
Read Full Review
BERLIN TO BROADWAY WITH KURT WEILL
Masquers Playhouse
This rarely produced revue of the life and music of composer Kurt Weill sold out nearly every performance of its 4 week run, making it one of the most successful productions in Masquers Playhouse history.
Read Masquers Playhouse Newsletter
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Maria made her Hillbarn Theatre debut in the role of Mrs. Nordstrom in Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, A Little Night Music. Directed by Dennis Lickteig, this gem played for 18 performances to full and enthusiastic houses.
Read Review from Broadway World
DAUGHTER OF THE RED TZAR
a world premiere chamber opera
This new chamber opera, composed by Lisa Scola Prosek, in collaboration with First Look Sonoma, tells of the first dramatic meeting between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin in Moscow during 1942 that forever changed the course of history, as well as the story of Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, who defied her father, and eventually defecting to the west. The production, staged at Thick House in San Francisco, played 6 performances to full houses and rave reviews.
Read Review in SF Chronicle
HAPPY END
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Goat Hall Productions of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece was a big hit at Berkeley's Live Oak Theatre.
"The singing, the acting, the slapstick, the costumes were all fantastic... but most of all, the enthusiasm, commitment, and overwhelming talent displayed on stage clearly and directly communicated to the audience."
-- John Bilotta (composer)
Visit Goat Hall Website
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
a steam punk production by Jon Tracy
Audiences at Berkeley Playhouse raved about director Jon Tracy's punk rock version of this Gilbert & Sullivan swashbuckling adventure.
Read Review
CHICAGO
Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre
This production of the 2nd longest-running musical of all time was a smash at the Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton, playing most of it's 11 shows to sold out houses. Ms. Mikheyenko played Katalyn Hunyak, the Hungarian inmate of Cook County Jail who plead "not guilty" and paid the price.
Read Review Here