The Perennial Question: Was This a Good Season?   by: Barbara and Scott Siegel   Almost every season has its peaks and valleys; the question is, were the peaks on the scale of Bear Mountain or The Rockies? And were the valleys...

  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 back sitting through...

              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 & 2, and one a musical,...

      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 of every ten spent on...

    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) with little fanfare....

      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. Through the centuries,...

    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 theater for people who don’t go...

  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 larger...