Happy New Year everyone! “Un-Block The Music” was absent for the second half of 2023 because I am working on the never ending project that is my book about Women In Theater. What is difficult about “giving birth” to this book is that I have found so many interesting people and interesting topics to write... Continue Reading →
Deck The Halls With Holly Block And Support Youth Mental Health Project At NYC Cabaret
Have plans for December 16th? Now, you do! Come see Deck The Halls With Holly at Don’t Tell Mama NYC. Holly Block returns to this space for a fun-filled night of holiday and musical theater songs two years after her last successful show here. It’s no wonder a woman named Holly would love Christmas, but, she says,... Continue Reading →
Sick Of ZOOM Meetings, Welcome To The New York SongSpace
When people hear that before I started “Un-Block The Music” I had a writing career spanning 25+ years, they are impressed…so glamorous! Not so! Very solitary. You can bet, anytime I can go to an event or meet up with other writers, I do it! That’s one reason why I knew I had to write... Continue Reading →
Women Wonders: 22-Year- Old Anna Miriam Brown Debuts “His Story: The Musical” Tonight In Texas
Featured photo by Jeremy Daniel His Story: The Musical officially opens tonight at the Broadway Tent at Grandscape, The Colony, TX. Why is “Un-Block The Music” thrilled about this opening? The show’s book, music and lyrics were written by the 22-year-old “Woman Wonder” Anna Miriam Brown. This new contemporary pop musical is based on the... Continue Reading →
TILT Theater Company Shatters Stereotypes & Offers Work With Diverse Flavor
Do you always eat vanilla ice cream and try nothing else? Why would you miss out on all of those other flavors? “Un-Block the Music” asks the same question about art…if you open your eyes to more than the television news channels, you will find that diversity comes in many shapes, sizes and colors and... Continue Reading →
Happy International Women’s Day!
Happy International Women’s Day! Each and every day I am inspired by women in all walks of life. But, on this day, I would like to shout out to the women who gave me a chance to flaunt my talents and allowed me to grow in the career I dreamed about since I was in... Continue Reading →
Eric William Morris Spreads His Creative Wings With A New Album & New Musical
Happy New Year from “Un-Block The Music”! My good wishes are a month later than they should be, but after escaping sickness for the last three years, I got a stomach virus with the added bonus a couple of weeks later of CO-VID…Happy Holidays to me! Anyway…if you wondered what happened to the rest of... Continue Reading →
MiG Ayesa Shares His Stage Journey From Australia To Broadway & “Choices: A Rock Opera” Opening This Week
When was the last time you heard a NEW 1980s rock opera? Maybe the 1980s? Well…fasten your seatbelts and come to see the second staging of Choices: A Rock Opera this weekend, November 11, 12 and 13 at New York’s Chappaqua Performing Arts Center (https://choicesarockopera.com/). The show stars MiG Ayesa who is no stranger to... Continue Reading →
“The Kite Runner’s” Composer Jonathan Girling “UnBlocks” Opera, Symphony & Theater Music
Have you seen that hilarious Progressive Insurance television commercial trying to prevent us from becoming our parents? Well, I am going to use a term that my mom used to always use, “Variety is the spice of life!” That is technically the theme of “Un-Block The Music.” As a new wave, punk rock girl of... Continue Reading →
Women Wonders: Rona Siddiqui, “Strange Loop” To 54 Below; Most People Are Outside The Box
If you truly want to understand people and improve our world, take a look at what theater artists are putting out there, particularly since the pandemic. Case in point, two projects with Rona Siddiqui’s name attached. Tony-winning A Strange Loop and Salaam Medina, Tales of A Halfghan. If you can’t decipher the meaning of these... Continue Reading →