"In 1980 he was instrumental in setting up the London Theatre Associate awards for new and revived works undertaken by fringe, community based and touring companies.In 1994, three years after Milton Shulman had retired from theatre reviewing, "The Observer" critic Michael Coveney published "The Aisle is Full of Noises", a spirited "vivisection of the live theatre" which he arranged in the form of a diary, including some witty if not entirely flattering references to Shulman, while bracketing him with "the kosher butchers — Herbert Kretzmer, Bernard Levin and David Nathan".