240 stories by "Michael Schulman"
Should everyone follow Williamson’s lead and throw the offending cell phone? Of course not: theatregoing would turn into a Hobbesian state of nature, or, worse, the L train after midni…
The legend of Mike McAlary—tabloid chronicler of the crime-ridden, crack-laden New York City of the Koch-Dinkins era—has been burnished twice over: first by the man himself, who,…
But what does Meryl Streep have to say? That’s the question I ask myself about most things—the “Mad Men” season première, North Korea, the bumblebee die-off̵…
Three years before Roald Dahl died, he was stumped by a five-year-old. Like many of his protagonists, Matilda Wormwood was a precocious youngster surrounded by monstrous adults and grotesque…
Frank had one last shot at the upper chamber: for one night only, he was making a cameo appearance as a Republican senator in the 1959 musical “Fiorello!”
Who fared the best in Tom Hooper’s, “Les Misérables,” and who was just plain misérable? A ranking, from best to worst, below.
There is a farm in Haddam, Connecticut, that you dreamed of as a child. Some twenty-six dogs run free on its ninety acres—working or retired show dogs, many of them former Totos, from …
For sixteen years, the actor Roger Rees and the playwright Rick Elice have lived in a book-crammed apartment in the Beresford, on Central Park West. Elice (New Yorker, garrulous) is the auth…
Until Mayor Bloomberg leaves office or marries his longtime partner, Diana Taylor, New York City will have to do without a proper First Lady, as it has, effectively, since 2000, when Rudolph…
In 2006, the singer-songwriters Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová put out a tiny movie called “Once,” which went on to earn twenty million dollars and an Academy Award, …
Broadway, like New York City, is a place where petty comforts are fought for but rarely won. So when Jujamcyn Theatres, which owns five Broadway houses, recently announced a “revolutio…
This week, an Off Broadway revival of "Carrie," the musical based on the Stephen King novel, starts performances at the Lucille Lortel, marking the semi-ironic return of what may be Broadway…
"I won't grow up!" is the mantra of many a grad student and Botox injectee, but the line belongs to Peter Pan, and specifically to Cathy Rigby, the former Olympic gymnast who has played the …
The three activities that made people the happiest are sex, exercise, and going to the theatre.
The Research Behind the "Anything Goes" Revival
