By Barbara & Scott Siegel Whatever is ailing Hollywood in regard to race does not seem to be a problem for New York theater. On Broadway (and Off-Broadway), the number of shows that either star Afro-American actors and/or appeal...
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The Siegel Column – Nerds
NERDS: The Ripple Effect… By Barbara & Scott Siegel To coin a phrase, it takes a village to put on a Broadway musical. Apparently, it only takes one person who breaks his or her word to shut a Broadway musical down. The...
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Plays You Should Not Miss – Before the Spring Onslaught By Barbara & Scott Siegel Soon, the winter will fade and a plethora of new plays will sprout in our little theater garden. But before we get entirely buried by new...
The Siegel Column – Consider These Actors!
By Barbara & Scott Siegel This column is devoted to performances. Frankly, the Fall season has sputtered so far, with only a relative handful of truly fine shows, but as everyone always says (and they say it correctly), there is...
The Siegel Column – Hot and Cold Running Critics
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Hot and Cold Running Critics There are essentially two kinds of critics operating in our theater world these days, and they literally run hot and cold. The hot critics look...
The Siegel Column – Will Amazing Grace Survive
By Barbara & Scott Siegel So far, Amazing Grace has withstood the slings and arrows of the critics. Shows with rave reviews, even from the NY Times – Side Show & Honeymoon in Vegas, to name just two – bit the dust not long after...
Under the Shadow of the Tonys – The Siegel Column
By Barbara & Scott Siegel During the weeks leading up to the Tony Awards and in their recent aftermath – and despite all the attention being paid to the shows on The Great White Way, something rather wonderful has been happening in that...
Sure Bets When You’re Buying Tickets to the Theater
The Siegel Column By Barbara & Scott Siegel No one wants to spend their hard-earned money on a bad show, or even worse, spend two hours of your life you’ll never get...
The Siegel Column – Wolf Hall Meets Hamilton, Lives of the Saints
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Where Wolf Hall Meets Hamilton: Two of the most high profile shows of this season, one a drama from the Royal Shakespeare Company that has come to Broadway, Wolf Hall – Parts 1 &...
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by: Barbara and Scott Siegel It’s well-known that musicals are the big tourist draw on Broadway. The statistic often used to describe the breakdown of ticket sales between musicals and straight plays is that nine dollars out...
The Siegel Column – Summer Theater
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Summer Theater… The Summer is always a funky time of year for shows to open. Festivals like NYMF and The Fringe tend to get a lot of attention while Off and Off-Off Broadway productions seem to open (and close)...
The Siegel Column – Politics, Morality and Theater
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter and Poor Behavior Theater, as a vehicle for political discourse and/or the examination of morality, goes back to the ancients....
The Siegel Column – Theater for People Who Don’t Go to Theater
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Theater for People Who Don’t Go to the Theater It started in 1988 with Tony & Tina’s Wedding: a little bit of script, a little bit of acting, and a little bit of pasta – and voila – welcome to...
TheaterPizzazz Welcomes Barbara & Scott Siegel
TheaterPizzazz is happy to announce that theater and cabaret's lovable duo, Barbara and Scott Siegel will be writing 'The Siegel Column' right here. Expect to read about shows and performances in a more unconventional sense with an eye focused on the context of...
