This Week’s Picks! Drink Coffee with Hugh Jackman and Bid Constantine Maroulis & Lauren Worsham Farewell

Got nothing to do this weekend but eat pumpkin spice cookies and binge on Golden Girls reruns? We’ve got you covered. There’s a gaggle of Broadway ladies performing with a great singer-songwriter, the star-studded return of A Delicate Balance, and Hugh Jackman (enough said). You’re welcome. Here are this week’s picks!


Move In with Glenn Close & John Lithgow
Begins October 20 at the John Golden Theatre
The revival of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Delicate Balance stars Glenn Close and John Lithgow as a husband and wife whose marriage faces a strain over a weekend that features visitors from friends and family. This includes their 36-year-old daughter (Martha Plimpton), who is fresh from her fourth divorce. Expect terrific performances—Tony winner Lindsay Duncan is also here, folks—and acerbic insight from one of America’s greatest living playwrights. Click for tickets!


Get Jazzed Up For Ladies’ Night
October 20 at Birdland
Usually, if you’re referring to hanging with “the ladies,” it’s a crew featuring someone you can barely stand from HR and your Aunt Connie. And they’re your all-stars! If you’re songwriter-performer Lance Horne, it’s different. In Lance & the Ladies, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Julia Murney and more fabulous performers join Horne to sing songs from his CD First Things Last, and his opera The Night Before My Wedding. Click for tickets!


Get Up with Kelly & Michael…and Hugh!
October 22, check local listings
On Live with Kelly and Michael, Hugh Jackman joins America’s perpetually cheerful odd couple to talk about his upcoming performance in The River, which begins previews October 31. Since this is morning TV, anything can happen. Perhaps Hugh will demonstrate chest exercises by bench-pressing Kelly or belt songs from The Boy from Oz. Since it’s close to Halloween, maybe he’ll come out dressed as Wolverine. Oh, the suspense!


Bid Two Tony-Nominated Favorites Adieu
October 26 at the Walter Kerr Theatre & Helen Hayes Theatre
You’re always saying, “Oh, I’ll see [insert name of talented performer] in [insert Broadway show] after I [insert pointless, mundane activity]”? Well, it's the last time to see Lauren Worsham in Gentleman’s Guide and Constantine Maroulis in Rock of Ages. After that, it’s job hunting on Monster.com. Just kidding—they’re Tony nominees! They should be back on the Great White Way soon. Click here and here for tickets!


Do a Sondheim/Lloyd Webber Double-Header
October 26 at 54 Below
Sunday night is for more than dreading Monday, so stay up late for two musical tributes to the men who have ruled Broadway before most of us were born. (Don’t worry, you can sleep during Daylight Savings.) First, there’s Sondheim Unplugged featuring Broadway and cabaret vets, accompanied by piano, performing songs from the Company man’s brilliant career. That’s followed by Christina Bianco, Lennie Watts and more in Aspects of Andrew: Lloyd Webber @ 54. Click here and here for tickets!