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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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YANNA AVIS, June 18 at 9:30PM: “Ah Paree! Evoking ’50s glamour through teasing taunts, statuesque French chanteuse Yanna Avis sings with a wry understanding… The show’s essence is distilled in a word heard less and less nowadays: chic.” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times. With her new show “Make Some Magic” Yanna Avis takes us […]

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By Stephen Sorokoff, Broadwayworld.com | May 10, 2013 “Yanna Avis makes her Café Carlyle debut with a new show, titled In Love with Love which will feature her usual sophisticated, European cabaret. The program will be multi-lingual from a variety of influences including Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollander and other classics. In Love with Love […]