The late novelist Anne Rice will be celebrated at an event in New Orleans next month.
Anne Rice: An All Saints’ Day Celebration will be presented by Dinner Partners LLC, a production company owned by Rice’s son, author Christopher Rice, and Eric Shaw Quinn, a writer who collaborated with Anne Rice. The event is scheduled for November 1, 2025, at the Orpheum Theater in downtown New Orleans.
Anne Rice published her first novel, Interview With the Vampire, in 1976; the book told the story of the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac. The novel was the first in Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series, which spanned 13 books. The most recent, Blood Communion, was published in 2018.
Interview With the Vampire was adapted into a 1994 film, directed by Neil Jordan and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. It also formed the basis for a television series that debuted in 2022; the show was renewed for a third season, and will now be called The Vampire Lestat, after the second novel in the Vampire Chronicles.
Anne Rice died in 2021 at the age of 80. In a 2022 interview with Kirkus, Christopher Rice said that he was planning a celebration in her honor. “I think she would want to be remembered as somebody who tried to fight back against mediocrity, someone who didn’t accept limitations,” he said. “I think she would want to be remembered as someone who refused to hear no when her dreams were on the line.”
The celebration in New Orleans, organizers say, will include “a lavish stage production and the premiere of a new anthology of documentary films featuring intimate, never-before-seen interviews from some of Anne’s closest friends, colleagues, fans and family, celebrating Anne as an author, mother, wife, friend and child of the Big Easy.” Scheduled to perform are singers Irma Thomas, Mary Fahl, and Carolee Carmello.
The event will be filmed and streamed later this year on Rice’s website.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
