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 […]
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 […]
The Name Above The Title
By David Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary | May 13, 2013 “Yanna performs in the European tradition of the chanteuse. Neither Marlene Dietrich (although along those lines) nor Piaf, Yanna nevertheless brings their sentiments and emotional intimacy, with her style, to her songs. Her show is for You. I’ve seen her perform several times. […]
Another part-time sunny day
By David Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary | September 30, 2009 “Meanwhile, yesterday in New York. At eight o’clock I went down to Feinstein’s at the Regency to hear my friend Yanna Avis in her debut in that room. Yanna is a chanteuse, “an exotic international chanteuse,” as she’s been described elsewhere. She’s Parisienne […]
YANNA AVIS 