![]() ![]() His book How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare, published by Penguin Random House, won the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of the Year, and his essays are published in the Yale Review. His stage version of Murder on the Orient Express was written expressly at the request of the Agatha Christie Estate, and his latest play, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, won the 2020 Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play of the Year and is optioned for Broadway. His plays have starred, among others, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Tony Shaloub, Joan Collins and Hal Holbrook. In addition, he has won the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, and the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theater. Crazy For You was on Broadway for five years and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical. Lend Me a Tenor won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. His 28 plays and musicals have been performed in over 30 countries in more than 20 languages and are produced throughout the United States every night of the year. Ken Ludwig has had six shows on Broadway, seven in London’s West End, and many of his works have become a standard part of the American repertoire. Be prepared to leave the theater exhausted from laughter.” - The News Tribune, WA It’s Waiting for Guffman meets Noises Off meets your favorite Shakespeare comedy as performed by the Marx Brothers. “ Moon Over Buffalo is what a stage comedy should be. “Stuffed with comic invention, running gags and a superb sense of absurdity, this is truly a love-letter to live theatre.”. “By far Broadway’s funniest, most enjoyable lighthearted play. Go and enjoy!” - Clive Barnes, New York Post “Hilarious! Ludwig stuffs his play with comic invention, running gags and neat sense of absurdity. I have seen Moon Over Buffalo three times! I expect you to see it once.” - Liz Smith, New York Post This has to be one of the most hysterical things ever put onstage. The second act has a show-within-a-show spoof of Private Lives with everybody in the wrong costumes reading the wrong lines. “The funniest show in New York… The comedy has audiences rolling in the aisles. “oles that any actor of a certain age would give his or her soul to play.” - The Boston Herald “Ken Ludwig is one of those rare contemporary playwrights who thinks in terms of old-fashioned knockabout farce, and that’s something to be cherished.” - The New York Times “Ken Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo tops the mayhem and pitch-perfect farce of his other hit, Lend Me a Tenor.” - Orange County Register The play is nothing less than a love letter to live theater.” - Boston Herald Kaufman, Abe Burrows, Moss Hart and all those clever fellows who wrote the comedies of yesteryear are rolling with laughter, echoing the audience last night at Moon Over Buffalo. “Packs more comic genius onto the stage than anything in recent memory!” - USA Today ![]()
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