Last month we took our show and our beautiful cast and crew to Paris and Casablanca. Here we are in front of La Nouvelle Eve, the theatre where we performed our show. This theatre (I can't decide to continue to spell this "theatre" or "theater". Thoughts?) opened on Christmas Eve, 1897. It feels as if you can still smell cigarette smoke in the velvet seats and carpet from that night in 1897. There is a hole in the ceiling above the stage where the semi-nude showgirls were dro

I'm mounting my new show next month at the Greenway Court Theatre, where I mounted my last opera. Oh, how I love it there!! You'll be able to buy the full album of the show when we open!! Working very hard on that now... We open on Saturday August 27, 2016. PLEASE COME!! Here's where you can get tix: http://www.greenwaycourttheatre.org/anais/ Just look at these amazing pics of a rehearsal from a couple of weeks ago: photo credit Barry Weiss #anaisnin #henrymiller #opera #comp

Hello all! It's been a WHILE since I've blogged. Why? General laziness and ennui? Nothing of note to say? The elections are weighing too heavily on me? NO!! None of those things. For those who don't know me well, the news is that I had to have urgent brain surgery a few months ago (November Friday the 13th, to be specific) and I've been healing up since then. I HAVE A FLAIR FOR THE DRAMATIC -- is my claim. Yep. My problem was a 1.5cm colloid cyst that was just hanging out in

Hello all! It's been a little while since I've posted a thing, which happens when one gets busy. It's been a big time in my life and the life of my little family. My only child went away to school clear across the country. She's at the perfect place for her at the perfect time. It was a bit rough taking her to school, but she's all tucked in and having the time of her life. My husband has finished one the of biggest projects of his career. A news item should be coming up any

I'm writing a piece for the Anaïs show that takes place at the Folies Bergère in 1924. She was a young newlywed and had recently moved back to Paris from New York with her husband Hugh. He took her out to experience the Paris nightlife. She was, apparently, shocked. Anaïs Nin. Shocked. By dancing that she saw at the Folies Bergère. Nin. Let that sink in for a moment... So -- we decided that I should write a piece that apes the style of the period, with Anaïs singing about how

I feel a real kinship with Anais Nin. I mean, I'd wear a birdcage on my head like that! Wouldn't even think twice... She died in the 70s. Did you know she died in Los Angeles? Did you know that her archive resides at UCLA? Did you know that she lived here in a mid-century modern home designed by Eric Lloyd Wright, the grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright? Her second (bigamist) husband, Rupert Pole, was his half-brother. Did I say BIGAMIST? I did! (This is NOT a reason I feel kinshi