This Week’s Picks! Quiz Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hear Angela Lansbury Talk Broadway & Find the Truth with Marlo Thomas

Hey, you, trying to make pumpkin spice tuna melts. Just because it’s fall, it doesn’t mean all food has to taste like the inside of a jack o’ lantern. You need to get outside. Luckily, we have plenty of stuff to do, including the opening of The Gin Game revival, Lin-Manuel Miranda taking your questions and two off-Broadway premieres. Here come this week’s picks!


Laugh Over Clever Little Lies
Opens October 12 at Westside Theatre
All these new shows on Broadway and beyond are great, but where are the comedies? Oh, here’s one! Marlo Thomas stars in Clever Little Lies, which has the beloved star of stage and screen assembling the truth behind her husband’s strange behavior over dessert and drinks with her son and daughter-in-law. Booze and sweets and laughs, huh? Forget therapy. That’s not a bad way to get through a Monday. Click for tickets!


See Mamie Gummer Handle (Virtual) Reality
Opens October 13 at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
The exotic appeal of Mamie Gummer being Meryl Streep’s daughter was extinguished long ago. She has carved her own path thanks to a series of first-rate performances. That continues in Lindsey Ferrentino’s Ugly Lies the Bone, where Gummer plays Jessie, a veteran of three tours in Afghanistan who returns home to Florida—and deals with her pain by engaging in virtual reality game therapy. Click for tickets!


Get in on The Gin Game
Opens October 14 at the John Golden Theatre
Sometimes, the best Broadway shows are the ones that do the simple things right. When it does, you get D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Gin Game, where two nursing home residents bare their souls during a series of card games. And when you have two titans of the stage in Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones playing the leads? The experience should be nothing short of transcendent. Click for tickets!


Book it to B&N for Hamilton Goodness
October 16 at the Upper East Side Barnes & Noble
Book stores rock—and not because they sell books. They have mountainous muffins and offer plenty of comfy places to read magazines you’ve never heard of. Today, they even get better. Newly minted genius Lin-Manuel Miranda takes questions and signs copies of the OCR of Hamilton with other cast members at 3:30 PM. Leave work early, grab a milkshake latte, a scone the size of a boomerang and have fun.


Celebrate a B’way Legend’s B’day
October 16 at the 92nd St. Y
Angela Lansbury has had success in television and movies, but with five Tonys and iconic performances in Sweeney Todd, Mame and Gypsy, she’s indisputably a Great White Way legend. Tonight, on Lansbury’s 90th birthday, celebrate her greatness on the boards as critic/playwright Tony Vellela shares his exclusive video interviews of Lansbury discussing those very performances. This is worth missing your lunch hour. Sneak a burrito into the bathroom stall. You’ll be fine.