LUKE YANKEE

TESTIMONIALS

Here’s what audiences are saying about Luke Yankee...

“A great tribute to a great lady that is touching, hilarious and completely enthralling! Luke Yankee is such a marvelous storyteller that you’ll want to hear the stories he tells again and again!”

Rex Reed

syndicated columnist

“Fun...fascinating...a real trip through showbiz history...Luke Yankee is absolutely marvelous!”

Jan Wahl

“INFORMAL, UNIQUE AND BRIILIANT...the audience was deeply moved by the simple fact that here was a son who sincerely felt his mother’s legacy has not yet been played out. Luke Yankee’s brilliant skill at storytelling hints at his thespian genes, but no actor can deliver such love across the footlights without feeling it with every cell of his body as this son does. Every time he imitated her voice, related her whispers, shared his own reactions, a palpable heartbeat resonated through my skin. ‘DIVA DISH’ IS A CUTTING-EDGE THEATRICAL EXPRESSION...IT’S WORTH TEN TIMES THE TICKET PRICE!”

Marc Thompson

Desert Post Weekly

“Watch all the E! True Hollywood Stories and A&E Biographies you can get your hands on – you still won’t hear half of what Luke Yankee knows about the biggest names in showbiz history!”

Melinda Casilias

Palo Alto Weekly

“In Diva Dish, Luke Yankee charmingly reminisces about his mother, Eileen Heckart, and all her star buddies. As he rattles off stories about the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Ethel Merman and Vivian Vance, he is a real life Patrick Dennis out of Auntie Mame.”

David Noh

The New York Blade

“Luke Yankee, the son of the late Eileen Heckart and a theatrical producer and raconteur in his own right, is doing a new one-man show called ‘Diva Dish’. Yankee talks warmly and candidly about his encounters with various celebs over the years.”

Robert Osborne

The Hollywood Reporter

“An evening with Luke and the divas is the next best thing to being there!”

Rebecca Redshaw

Notes From Hollywood 

“My readers in Europe are always looking for real American experiences when they read about events in New York. ‘Diva Dish’ is a real American experience, a trip though the golden years of showbiz, hand in hand with the most memorable divas. And Luke Yankee makes it all sound so easy, as if he had just invited the audience into his living room to talk about old friends.”

Andrew Visconti

L’Espresso Magazine