Olive Branch News

Tony Award winner Celia Keenan-Bolger, Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award winner Jessica Lange, and Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Jim Parsons return to Broadway in the Second Stage's production of Mother Play. Read the reviews!

The acclaimed Barclaycard presents Latitude Festival is poised to return to Henham Park in Suffolk from July 25th to 28th, 2024.

We sat down for a Q&A with Broadway and television veteran Jenny Powers, who will star as The Witch alongside The Book of Mormon's Kevin Clay as The Baker in The Link Theatre Company's production of Into the Woods.

An all new production of Tennessee Williams's timeless masterpiece The Night of the Iguana, directed by Tony Award nominee Emily Mann, has officially opened Off-Broadway! Read the reviews for The Night of the Iguana here!

The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Phaedra Parks will be joining the show for its tenth season. Also returning this season is Dr. Jackie Walters, Dr. Simone Whitmore, Dr. Heavenly Kimes, and Toya Bush-Harris. Quad Webb will be returning to the group with other new cast member Lateasha Lunceford, the wife of Dr. Gregory Lunceford. Watch the video!

CEASEFIRE is a beautiful if painful portrait of resolving conflict between people and the battle scars love can leave behind.

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has received a pledge of $2.28 million in support from the Chapel Hill-based William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. The funds will support a massive expansion of the UNCSA Posse Arts Program, an initiative of The Posse Foundation conceived in collaboration with the Miranda Family Fund.

FOMO in community? Come to Trans-LATE! Trans-LATE! is a fun, new low-key bimonthly wellness event and community fundraiser created, founded, & produced by Atlas O Phoenix.

The Orpheum Theatre Group has announced that the annual Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards (HSMTA) will return for an in-person ceremony on Thursday, May 26 at 7pm at the Orpheum Theatre. View the full list of nominees.

Seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette has announced  dates for her world tour celebrating 25 years of JAGGED LITTLE PILL. The new dates follow Alanis’ sold out #1 female-fronted tour from 2021. Plus, check out her new single, 'Olive Branch,' co-written by Alanis and Michael Farrell.

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's military veterans' ensemble will present “To Be a Soldier,” a collection of Shakespeare scenes on military experience, at 8 p.m. March 25 and 26 at the theater at 7 S. Calvert St. in Baltimore. Tickets are free for veterans and active-duty military.

“Memphissippi,” based IVAV (a hip-hop division of Curb | Word Entertainment) Rapper Ty Brasel set to perform at SXSW this year. This upcoming performance follows the successful release of the music video for Ty’s single “4 The Stars,” off his recently released mixtape Destiny: Vol, 1.

Gamut Theatre Group presents Classics Fest: Five shows, over five nights, for $5 tickets each. Classics Fest is a week-long festival of plays and staged readings that celebrate diversity and classic works.

Additionally, Grace has recently announced a number of fall and winter appearances. Performing as part of the 2021 Punk Rock Bowling festival in Las Vegas, NV on Saturday, September 25, Grace will also be supporting Thursday on the east coast of the U.S. from December 27-30.

Before we get to know this year's Jimmy Awards nominees, BroadwayWorld is catching up with some of the program's alumni! Below, get to know just a few, including: Ethan Hardy Benson, Sarah Chico, Jamie Colburn, Caitlin Finnie, Adam Ross Glickman, Emma Heistand, Daniel Kohanbash, Emily Kuhn, Dino Nicandros, Samantha Steinmetz, and John Zamborsky.

A colorful and kaleidoscopic visual complimenting the pop-rock, almost Joan Jett-like stomp of the track, “SuperNatural Possession” was created by Network 77’s Rachel Lichtman.

The third season of WE tv's smash hit spinoff series 'Life After Lockup' is back with 16 all-new episodes.

For an inside look at the creation of 'Reach' by Jennie Webb, one of the four plays being streamed on Saturday, October 24 as part of the UNDER CONSTRUCTION Zoom series, I reached out to that play's producer Christine Joëlle, who shared how the short piece was created via a collaboration with the two musicians of firehill and their first song 'Believe.'

Polyvinyl Record Co. and Emmy-nominated artist, acclaimed author, activist and musician Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!, The Devouring Mothers) are excited to announce the release of her debut solo album titled Stay Alive.

My unshakeable youthful confidence came crashing down when I was cast as Jack in Into the Woods JR.