Michael Schulman News

Performances have begun for the limited 15-week engagement of Eric Bentley’s 1972 docudrama, ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN, directed by Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro at New York City Center Stage I. Check out photos here!

On Instagram, Patti LuPone has responded to those criticizing her after a recent interview with the New Yorker. LuPone writes 'For as long as I have worked in the theatre, I have spoken my mind and never apologized. That is changing today.

Audra McDonald responded to Patti LuPone’s viral 'not a friend' comment during a CBS Mornings interview. The remark, which followed a dispute involving fellow Tony winner Kecia Lewis, has prompted widespread support for both women across the Broadway community.

A retrospective of the short but extraordinary movie career of actor John Cazale, whose five films–THE GODFATHER, THE GODFATHER PART II, THE CONVERSATION, THE DEER HUNTER, DOG DAY AFTERNOON–were all Oscar Best Picture winners or nominees, will run at Film Forum from Friday, June 13 to Thursday, June 19.

The New York Drama Critics' Circle has unearthed the plaque that originally accompanied its annual award for Best American Play, and will return to awarding the plaque this year.

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has revealed key dates for the third annual Dorian Theater Awards, set to honor Broadway and Off-Broadway productions of the 2024-2025 season. 

This year's New Yorker festival is set to take place next month, and includes a host of Broadway names on its slate. The lineup will include talks with Alan Cumming, Audra McDonald, Ayad Akhtar, Sara Bareilles, and more. Additionally, a screening of the new film adapation of The Piano Lesson will be held.

GALECA has announced key dates and new categories for the 2nd Dorian Theater Awards, set to honor Broadway and Off-Broadway productions of the 2023-2024 season.

Go inside the complete history of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, playing at Broadway's Hudson Theatre now!

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced it is expanding its mission to honor Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, across a variety of inaugural categories, beginning with the current 2022-2023 theater season.

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics is expanding its mission to honor Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, across a variety of inaugural categories, beginning with the current 2022-2023 theater season.

Celebrate the intersectionality of femininity during Women’s History Month in March with Shaina Taub, Annahstasia, Carol Lipnik, Ladama, Emily Scott Robinson, Alisa Amador, Violet Bell, Jackie Hoffman, Generation Women, and more!

Joe’s Pub has announced upcoming shows for February 13-26. The lineup features Ian Manuel, singer-songwriter and Guitar virtuoso Sunny War, Lea Delaria, multi-instrumentalist Jay Rodriguez Sierra, Jackie Hoffman, and Justin Vivian Bond, and more. 

'Do yourself a favor, DO NOT miss this incredibly sobering production.' says BWW's critic.

 Fake Friends, a theater and digital media production company that develops and produces original works for the stage, screen, and internet, will premiere the hybrid in-person and livestreamed presentation of Pulitzer Prize Finalist Circle Jerk.

Looking to hone your acting chops while stuck inside? Preparing for your next big audition, whenever that may be? We've rounded up 10 MORE monologue books that are sure to fit the bill!

Ethan James Green, whose fashion shoots have appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Another Man, and whose portraits of New York's millennial queer scene-makers have been compared to the work of Diane Arbus, joins three of his collaborators in a June 19 conversation at BAM. Green, who moved to New York as a teenager to work as a model, took up photography under the mentorship of the late David Armstrong. In the past three years, he has been photographing his close friends and community in the Lower East Side. Now collected as Young New York, these portraits depict a gloriously diverse cast of models, artists, designers, nightlife icons, and gender binary-flouting muses to the fashion world and beyond. In Aperture Conversations: Young New York, Green and three of his subjects and collaborators-Dara Allen, Marcs Goldberg, and Matt Holmes-will have a wide-ranging discussion about beauty, portraiture, and the legacies of queer and trans representation 50 years after the Stonewall uprising. It will be moderated by Michael Schulman, arts and culture writer for The New Yorker and contributor to Young New York.

This industrial Eden will not end well. And end badly it does, as playwright Lynn Nottage tightens the grip of the catastrophe step by slow step. We all know the historical outlines of the story enough to have a general idea what to expect: management ready to break unions to exact wage and benefits concessions, scab laborers, jobs exported abroad, plant closures, mortgage foreclosures, destitution, opioids. But Nottage renders this familiar tale powerful and surprising.

Town Supervisor Chad Lupinacci will join Linda and Michael Schulman, the parents of slain Half Hollow Hills Graduate Scott Beigel who was killed during the Parkland School shooting on February 14, 2018, and the Half Hollow Hills School District for a candlelight vigil to honor and remember Scott's legacy. Eyewitness accounts describe Mr. Beigel's final moments, where he brought students to safety while shielding them from a barrage of gunfire, saving their lives while placing his own life in jeopardy. The parents will be speaking at the vigil along with local students of the school in which Scott attended.

Irish Arts Center (IAC), the organization dedicated to projecting a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish America for the 21st century, celebrates St. Patrick's Day with the eighth annual edition of its acclaimed cultural event, Book Day. The initiative-presented this year in association with the New York City Council, New York State Assembly, Literature Ireland, and El Museo del Barrio-exemplifies the Center's commitment not only to putting forward the best of Irish and Irish American culture, but also to creating bridges to other cultures. Beginning at 9am, IAC staff and volunteers will take to the streets across all five boroughs armed with literature by Irish, Caribbean, and American authors, to share one of the great legacies that bridge all cultures-their stories. Included will be works from John Banville, Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Carlos Fuentes, Marlon James, Dorothy Macardle, Eimear McBride, Colum McCann, Frank McGuinness, Michael Schulman, Colm Toibin, Tiphanie Yanique, William Butler Yeats, and many, many more.