Kathy Searle News

Check out a short from the Peoples Improv Theater performance of The ReRun Project: Episode 1 on May 6th, 2013! It's a chunk of FAMILY MATTERS and a classic '80s TOOTSIE POP commercial. Click below to watch!

The ReRun Project: where the Peoples Improv Theater treats classic rerun scripts with the respect they deserve. Honoring the good ones, screwing with the bad ones, and having a great time with the best TV of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Created and directed by Guy Olivieri (Greenwich Village Follies) and co-produced by Ryan Duncan (Shrek, Altar Boyz), The ReRun Project: Episode 1 played the Mainstage at the PIT (Peoples Improv Theater) on June 30th, following a successful performance at the PIT in May. Scroll down for photos from the production!

The ReRun Project: where we treat classic rerun scripts with the respect they deserve. Honoring the good ones, screwing with the bad ones, and having a great time with the best TV of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

The ReRun Project: where we treat classic rerun scripts with the respect they deserve. Honoring the good ones, screwing with the bad ones, and having a great time with the best TV of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

At Hand Theatre Company presents Joshua Conkel's hilarious and provocative new play 'I Wanna Destroy You', which takes and explodes the idea of the pet homosexual/gay best friend.

At Hand Theatre Company (Letters to the End of The World, Broadway Recycled) presents the World Premiere of Joshua Conkel's I WANNA DESTROY YOU, a romantic comedy that tears the trope of the gay sidekick to shreds. Produced by Matthew DiCarlo and Justin Scribner and directed by Dan Horrigan (As Wide As I Can See), previews begin May 17 at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row. Opening is slated for May 22.

Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten announced today the opening of the World Premiere of WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! by Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall, beginning performances tonight, August 9, 2012. WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! is the final show to open in Williamstown Theatre Festival's 2012 season.

Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten announced today the full cast and creative team for the World Premiere of WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! by Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall, which will be presented from August 8 through August 19 (opening August 9) on the Nikos Stage. The cast began rehearsals today on the bucolic Williams College campus in preparation for their run as the last production of the 2012 season.

When Phil Geoffrey Bond was named Programming Director at 54 Below, it became a given that the theatre district's spanking new nightlife venue would include on its schedule Broadway-centric evenings geared for the knowledgeable musical theatre fan who appreciates both past glories and upcoming works in progress.  The producer/host of the Laurie Beechman Theatre's popular Sondheim Unplugged series now makes a significant debut in the same capacities with New Mondays, dedicated to giving audiences a sampling of fresh material from accomplished theatre composers and lyricists.

Ken Davenport has announced that the Off-Broadway phenomenon The Awesome 80s Prom, now in its ninth year at the famed club Webster Hall (125 East 11th Street), will be opening at the V Theater inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino Las Vegas on Saturday, July 14, 2012. The Vegas edition of The Awesome 80s Prom is produced by Sirc Michaels Productions.

54 BELOW, the new performance venue located just below legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, hosts some of Broadway's brightest stars tonight, July 9 through July 22. Coming up are Ben Vereen, Bucky Pizzarelli, Maury Yeston, MX Justin Vivian Bond, Joe Iconis, Jamie Deroy, Rebecca Luker, Annie Golden, Mara Davi and more.

"My Man is a Loser," the comedy starring Michael Rapaport (The Sixth Day, Hitch) and Bryan Callen (The Hangover, Old School), has announced that Emmy-nominated actor and producer John Stamos will join the film in a leading role. Rounding out the comedy's cast of supporting characters are Tika Sumpter (Gossip Girl, Sparkle, The Game), Kathy Searle and Heidi Armbruster.

Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten has announced additional casting for the 2012 Summer Season. A host of Williamstown Theatre Fesival veterans and talented newcomers including Becky Ann Baker, Marylouise Burke, Tyne Daly, Brandon Victor Dixon, Alison Fraser, Heather Lind, Amy Spanger, Jeremy Strong, Lili Taylor and many more, will take the stage during the Festival's 58th Season.

On Thursday, March 29, GODSPELL star Hunter Parrish (Spring Awakening, 'Weeds') will participate in an online chat live from his dressing room before the evening performance of the hit revival at Circle in the Square Theatre.

On Thursday, March 29, GODSPELL star Hunter Parrish (Spring Awakening, 'Weeds') will participate in an online chat live from his dressing room before the evening performance of the hit revival at Circle in the Square Theatre.

On Friday, March 2, 2012, producer Ken Davenport (Godspell, Chinglish, Oleanna, You're Welcome America...) will present a private industry reading of the new musical 'GARAGE BAND' at a private location in midtown Manhattan. 'GARAGE BAND' features music by Mark Allen and book by The Grundleshotz.

On Friday, March 2, 2012, producer Ken Davenport (Godspell, Chinglish, Oleanna, You're Welcome America...) will present a private industry reading of the new musical 'GARAGE BAND' at a private location in midtown Manhattan. 'GARAGE BAND' features music by Mark Allen and book by The Grundleshotz.

Ken Davenport is proud to announce that The Awesome 80s Prom (www.awesome80sprom.com), now in its 8th year at the famed club Webster Hall (125 East 11th Street), will welcome back Dustin Diamond, best known as Screech from the hit TV series 'Saved by the Bell,' to star in the November 5th performance. Dustin Diamond is returning to the Prom after his successful run in the show during the Spring and Summer of 2010.

After a successful run earlier this summer at the PIT (People's Improv Theatre), ALKY: only the luckiest victims die is back! ALKY is a real teen drinking drama workshopped in Christian schools in the 80s in Texas and we perform it with twistedly funny adults who are 'under the influence'. Come see Ms. O'Hara and the Marumsco Valley Players perform Jerome McDonough's hard-hitting teen drama, ALKY, while they try to hold their liquor.