 During the course of its four-week run, it was the highest rated show in New York according to audience surveys on the Theatermania website.A New York City public school teacher, Leaf has written both about education and about the arts and culture for such publications as "The Weekly Standard", "The New York Sun", "The New Yorker", "The New York Post", "The New York Daily News", "The American" and "National Review".Leaf has also been a contributor and editor at the Web journal New Partisan, and he has written for "The New York Press", where he served as the Arts editor.