Anyway, Wednesday night I went over to the Triad Theater on West 72nd to see Yanna Avis play Sarah Bernhardt in DIVINE SARAH by David Patrick Columbia – New York Social Diary (11/21/2025) Yanna and I are old friends. We met in Los Angeles through another Sarah, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, who also was her own brand of Divine. Our Sarah, also known as […]
Review: Yanna Avis Premieres ‘DIVINE SARAH’ at the Triad Theatre
The one-woman cabaret transports the audience into the mesmerizing world of Sarah Bernhardt By: Stephen Sorokoff Nov. 20, 2025 There are extraordinary jazz and Broadway vocalists who some might feel are interlopers in the world of cabaret. Then you come across a performer like Yanna Avis who reminds you what the experience in a cabaret should […]
Divine Sarah – A Diva Never Dies
Triad Theater, New York
Alphonse Mucha’s Poster For “La Dame Aux Cameilas” (1896)
Alphonse Mucha’s celebrated poster for Sara Bernhardt starring in “La Dame aux Camelia” by Alexandre Dumas (1896)
Broadway World: Yanna Avis Brings Paris To The Grand Salon at La Goulue
by Stephen Sorokoff for BROADWAY WORLD November 23, 2019 The audience that crowded into the Grand Salon at La Goulue had the best bargain in NYC last night. Their eyes, ears, and taste buds spent a night in Paris for the cost of a pre-fixe dinner and music charge. Yanna Avis created an evening of […]
New York Social Diary Review of the La Goulue Performance on June 20, 2019
by David Patrick Columbia, July 5th, 2019 Ten days ago, Yanna performed in cabaret in the back room at La Goulue on 61st and Madison. It was the debut for La Goulue as a cabaret venue, and it was Yanna’s first cabaret appearance this year. Yanna grew up in Paris. She likes people to know she […]
Broadway World: A Glamorous Night Of Cabaret As La Goulue Presents Yanna Avis
by Stephen Sorokoff for BROADWAY WORLD June 20, 2019 Speaking French wasn’t a requirement for a table at Yanna Avis‘ Cabaret show at the famed French Bistro La Goulue last night but it sure felt like everyone was fluent in the language. PADAM, PADAM, PADAM, an overflow audience could’t resist the temptation at times to […]
Pangea Presents Yanna Avis – New York
Yanna Avis: Make Some Magic
By Eddie Parsons Yanna Avis is a magical person blessed with equal parts physical beauty and inner beauty. The kind of woman who reminds you of an elegance that has been lost in modern society but a kindness and intelligence that is very much present. I have known Yanna for years and witnessed her navigate […]
YANNA AVIS is Again Beguiling and Enticing as She Makes Some Sensual Musical Magic at 54 Below
By John Hoglund, Broadwayworld (July 7, 2015) Cabaret is a tricky balance. For some, it is a joie de vivre experience defined as the pleasure felt when having a good time. Enter the beguiling Yanna Avis. Since her cabaret debut at Eighty Eight’s in 1992, Avis has played every major room in New York and has become one of the […]
The Chantouze
By David Patrick Columbia, NYSDOL Last Thursday night I went over to 54 Below on West 54th between 7th and 8th, where Yanna Avis was performing her program of cabaret. Yanna, who is French, was married for a long time to Warren Avis, the rent-a-car tycoon. I can’t remember if we first met in Los Angeles or here in New […]
6.17.15 | LIZ SMITH: Hot, High-Heeled Women | New York Social Diary
via 6.17.15 | LIZ SMITH: Hot, High-Heeled Women | New York Social Diary. “Tomorrow night, chanteuse supreme, Yanna Avis returns to Manhattan’s 54 Below with her “Make Some Magic” set of sultry, naughty numbers. Go to www.54below.com for tix info. Yanna brings back the soigné vibe of all those legendary ladies who lounged against pianos in the halcyon days […]
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