Colette News

On Friday, December 2, TheatreWorks New Milford will debut legendary playwright Noël Coward's classic comedy of manners, PRESENT LAUGHTER. The show opens at 8:00 p.m. for a five-week run.

Writer and director Jim Findlay examines our complicated relationship to plant life in the creepy, futuristic black comedy Botanica.

The Boston Irish Tourism Association (BITA) released its Travel & Culture Guide (fall/winter issue) of Irish cultural activities in Massachusetts.

Two of Ireland's comedy greats will strut their stuff at Roscommon Arts Centre over the coming weeks.

Aaron Diaz, who is best known for appearing in the lead role in the recent hit telenovela 'Teresa,' will guest star as Miguel, a dashing, charming and wealthy entrepreneur on the upcoming episode, 'Unscheduled Departure,' of ABC's popular new drama, PAN AM airing SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET), the ABC Television Network.

The kids and young adults of Fox Valley Repertory are getting All Shook Up, as they are busy rehearsing for their upcoming performances.

Today, BroadwayWorld.com is announcing the nominees for the 2011 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards! Representatives of 67 different theater productions, which played at 40 different Chicagoland theaters, are nominated in the 25 categories for the second annual Awards. As these are the only Theater Fan Choice Awards for the internationally known Chicago theater scene, the nominees rightly come from both Equity and Non-Equity theater companies, and from the worlds of plays, musicals, revues and touring shows.

Fred & Adele Astaire Awards Producer Patricia Watt, The Douglas Watt Family Fund for the Performing Arts, & art consultant Julie Keyes hosted a kickoff cocktail reception for the committees and sponsors of the 30th Fred & Adele Astaire Awards Gala at the theater district's Remi Restaurant. Astaire Awards Associate Producer Carolyn Kendall Buchter and Alix Michel, the Co-Chairs of the 30th Anniversary Awards Gala were also on hand to welcome guests that included such theater world glitterati as 5 time Astaire Award winner Susan Stroman, producers Emanuel Azenberg, Wendy Federman and Dan Whitten, SDC Executive Director Laura Penn, Lee Roy Reams, Bruce Michael, NYC Dance Alliance Executive Director Joe Lanteri, J. Elaine Marcos (Priscilla: Queen of the Desert), Kearann Giovanni (Hugh Jackman Back to Broadway), Meggie Cansler (Wicked), Rob Ashford (How to Succeed...), actresses Sondra Lee, Sarah Bierstock, Cassandra Seidenfeld Lyster & Jacquelin Murphy. Also lending their support for the 30th annual Awards which will take place in spring 2012 were Sara Johnson, Wendy Diamond, Kirk Pacheco, Suzy & Lincoln Boehm, Lynn Surry, filmmaker AlBert Maysles, Andrew Wargo, Caroline Lieberman, Pamela Morgan, Regina Kravitz, Barry Minsky, Joel Breiter.

Triple-Platinum Recording Artist Aaron Carter, who burst onto the pop music scene in the late nineties and quickly achieved worldwide superstardom and the adoration of millions of loyal fans, will join the cast of The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, on Monday, November 7, 2011.

Fans of ABC's popular drama series 'Pan Am' will be able to submit questions and receive real-time responses from Gaius Charles ('Friday Night Lights'), who plays Joe. He will be up on Twitter at @GaiusCharles during both the East and West Coast broadcasts of the show, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, from 10:01-11:00 p.m., ET/PT.

Fans of ABC's popular drama series 'Pan Am' will be able to submit questions and receive real-time responses from Gaius Charles ('Friday Night Lights'), who plays Joe. He will be up on Twitter at @GaiusCharles during both the East and West Coast broadcasts of the show, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, from 10:01-11:00 p.m., ET/PT.

Aaron Diaz, who is best known for appearing in the lead role in the recent hit telenovela 'Teresa,' will guest star as Miguel, a dashing, charming and wealthy entrepreneur on the upcoming episode, 'Unscheduled Departure,' of ABC's popular new drama, PAN AM airing SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET), the ABC Television Network.

In the October 30 episode of ABC's 'Pan Am' entitled 'The Genuine Article', Maggie is perilously close to losing her job for insubordination, but still manages to maneuver her way onto the flight down to Rio de Janeiro.

The ABC Television Network announces highlights of its upcoming November sweeps programming, including special Halloween and Thanksgiving-themed episodes of some of television's biggest hit series, 'The 45th Annual CMA Awards' and '2011 American Music Awards,' a one-hour 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition A Veterans Day Special,' and of course 'Jimmy Kimmel Live.'

According to Deadline.com, Sony Pictures TV is bringing in veteran writer-producer Steven Maeda in expectation of receiving a full first season pick up for it's freshman show, PAN AM, which airs on the ABC network.

Passion, adventure and espionage. The style of the 1960s, the energy and excitement of the Jet Age and a drama full of sexy entanglements deliciously mesh in a thrilling and highly original new series, PAN AM on the ABC network.

Triple-Platinum Recording Artist Aaron Carter, who burst onto the pop music scene in the late nineties and quickly achieved worldwide superstardom and the adoration of millions of loyal fans, will join the cast of The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, on Monday, November 7, 2011.

Fans of ABC's popular drama series 'Pan Am' will be able to submit questions and receive real-time responses from Erin Cummings, who plays Ginny Saddler. She will be up on Twitter at @ErinLCummings during both the East and West Coast broadcasts of the show on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23 from 10:01-11:00 p.m., ET/PT. She will also offer commentary on the exciting action taking place, as well as behind-the-scenes anecdotes.

In this Sunday's episode of ABC's PAN AM entitled 'One Coin in a Fountain', the Pan Am crew rolls the dice in more ways than one in glamorous Monte Carlo

The kids and young adults of Fox Valley Repertory are getting All Shook Up, as they are busy rehearsing for their upcoming performances.