Richard Karn News

The Motor City comes alive in Comedy Central's new series DETROITERS premiering Tuesday, February 7 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT following the season nine premiere of “Tosh.0.”

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation announced today that SAG, Emmy, Golden Globe nominated Actress Kerry Washington will receive the Actors Inspiration Award

The Pasadena Playhouse and Lythgoe Family Productions (LFP) just opened Panto at the Playhouse PETER PAN AND TINKER BELL - A PIRATES CHRISTMAS. The cast features Sabrina Carpenter as 'Wendy' ('Girl Meets World', Hollywood Records recording artist), Kevin Quinn as 'Peter Pan' ('Bunk'd,' Season 12 of 'American Idol', 'Adventures in Babysitting'), Nikki SooHoo as 'Tiger Lily' ('The Lovely Bones,' 'Bring It On: Fight to the Finish' and 'Stick It'), Corey Fogelmanis as 'John' ('Girl Meets World'), and August Maturo as 'Michael' ('Girl Meets World'). Scroll down for photos from the opening night festivities, plus, click here for a behind-the-scenes look at opening night!

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, celebrating 30 years of giving back, announced its 6th Annual Los Angeles Golf Classic to be held Monday, June 8th at an exclusive golf club in Burbank, California. The SAG Foundation L.A. Golf Classic is a tournament where celebrity golfers and entertainment industry executives raise money for the nonprofit's Catastrophic Health Fund and Emergency Assistance programs, which benefit SAG-AFTRA professionals and their families in times of need.

ION Television wants viewers to 'Get Wrapped Up in the Holidays,' today announcing the addition of five all-new original movies to its 2014 holiday lineup.

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation hosted the 5th Annual Los Angeles Golf Classic benefiting its Catastrophic Health Fund and Emergency Assistance programs for SAG-AFTRA performers and their families

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation will hold its 5th Annual Los Angeles Golf Classic benefiting its Catastrophic Health Fund and Emergency Assistance programs for SAG-AFTRA performers and their families

In 1984 Tod Booth was hired to direct at the then-named Alhambra Dinner Theatre. The show? I Ought to be in Pictures starring Claude Akins. Five weeks later, on a return trip to watch a show, while sitting at table B15 with owner Leon Simon, Tod made an offer to buy the Alhambra. The deal was done on a napkin. In two years he took the gross revenue from $700,000 to $2,500,000 and was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year' by the Jacksonville Business Journal. The rest, as Tod says, 'is history.' While not necessarily billed as an anniversary, it's hard to miss the parallels between the 1984 production and the 2014 production: Tod is still directing and the Alhambra is still bringing in big-name guest stars, this time Richard Karn from television's Home Improvement. I Ought to be in Pictures opens February 12, 2014 at the nation's longest running professional dinner theater.

Neil Patrick Harris, Nigel Lythgoe, Ashley Argota, Jordan Fisher, Ben Vereen, Kym Johnson, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Amy Acker, Charlene Tilton, among others, attended the opening night of Lythgoe Family Productions' ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH on Wednesday, December 11th, at The Pasadena Playhouse. The production, directed by Bonnie Lythgoe and choreographed by Emmy nominee Spencer Liff, will play until December 29, 2013. Scroll down for photos from the opening night arrivals!

Aladdin and His Winter Wish/written by Kris Lythgoe/directed by Bonnie Lythgoe/Pasadena Playhouse/through December 29 For a few years the prolific Lythgoe family have been entertaining us at Christmastime, first at the El Portal in NoHo and now at the Pasadena Playhouse with a British style panto. A panto is an interactive entertainment that starts with a very contemporary retelling of a fairy tale such as Snow White, Cinderella, or in this case Aladdin and turns it into a fun imaginative show with music that will appeal to both children and their parents. There's usually an actor in drag (outrageous Bruce Vilanch as the Widow Twankey, Aladdin's mother), a villain (Josh Adamson as Abanazar) and audience are encouraged to root for the heroes and HISS loudly at the villains. Actors such as Adamson tease the audience with a Mel Brooks-like phrase 'It's fun to be evil!' after which kids and adults boo and boo some more and even raise up props such as swords and other toy weapons in defense of their favorite hero. It's all in amusement, of course, and this year's Aladdin and His Winter Wish is by far the best show to date with a superlative cast, great special effects, some spectacular dancing and singing and an overall jolly good script by Kris Lythgoe that flows along without the slightest snag.

Center Theatre Group and The Second City are assembling a collection of special guests to drop in to the Kirk Douglas Theatre for a surprise cameo appearance in The Second City's 'A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!'

The Pasadena Playhouse and Lythgoe Family Productions (LFP) present ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH, starring Ben Vereen (Broadway's Pippin and Jesus Christ Superstar) as 'The Genie,' JorDan Fisher as 'Aladdin' (Disney's Teen Beach Movie), Ashley Argota as 'The Princess' (Nickelodeon's True Jackson VP), Richard Karn ('Home Improvement') as 'The Sultan', and Bruce Vilanch as 'Widow Twankey'.

Center Theatre Group and The Second City are assembling a collection of special guests to drop in to the Kirk Douglas Theatre for a surprise cameo appearance in The Second City's 'A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!'

GSN announced today that it will air a FULLY STUFFED FAMILY FEUD MARATHON on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 28th from 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET.

Bruce Vilanch has been announced to play Widow Twankey in The Pasadena Playhouse and Lythgoe Family Productions (LFP), ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH, starring previously announced Ben Vereen (Broadway's Pippin and Jesus Christ Superstar) as 'The Genie,' Jordan Fisher as 'Aladdin' (Disney's Teen Beach Movie), Ashley Argota as 'The Princess' (Nickelodeon's True Jackson VP) and Richard Karn ('Home Improvement') as 'The Sultan.'

The Alhambra Theatre & Dining (www.alhambrajax) will open its 2014 season - its 47th - with a rockin' musical and close it out in December with a return of show that sold 100% of it's tickets in 2012. Season Packages will go on sale to the general public on October 4, said Managing Partner Craig Smith.

The Pasadena Playhouse and Lythgoe Family Productions (LFP), announced today the principal casting for ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH, starring Ben Vereen (Broadway's Pippin and Jesus Christ Superstar) as “The Genie,” Jordan Fisher as “Aladdin” (Disney's Teen Beach Movie), Ashley Argota as “The Princess” (Nickelodeon's True Jackson VP) and Richard Karn (“Home Improvement”) as “The Sultan.”

More than 300 celebrities, voice over stars and party guests made up a full house at the Screen Actors Guild Foundation's 3rd Annual Poker Classic at an exclusive location at the Original Farmer's Market. The SAG Foundation Poker Classic is the major annual fundraiser for the SAG Foundation's Don LaFontaine Voice-Over Lab dedicated to the professional development and success of voice over artists.