Kudos from New York

Local actress Janis Stevens is basking in good press. Last Thursday in New York, Stevens was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in the “outstanding solo performance” category for her show Vivien, about actress Vivien Leigh. (Winners will be announced on May 21.)

Stevens will appear in Sacramento this month in the Capital Stage production of Humble Boy, which runs May 12 through June 25 on the Delta King Riverboat.

Rick Foster, the playwright who scripted Vivien for Stevens, will perform this summer at California Stage, in a reprise of his recent solo piece about poet William Butler Yeats, Fastened to a Dying Animal.