This Week's Picks! See Stars Go Gaga, Bryce Pinkham's Deadly Return & Kristin Chenoweth's Lessons in Evil

Hey, you, wearing gym shorts to brunch—you look you’re about to mow your parents’ lawn. Grab some quarters and start a load of laundry. You’ll need to look good when you hit the town this week. A ton is going down including Bryce Pinkham’s return to A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Broadway in Bryant Park, and Lady Gaga getting the Broadway treatment. Get ready for this week’s picks!


Take a Day Trip to Europe
Begins July 27 at Lincoln Center
Eastern Europe has enriched our cultural lives in ways beyond Yakov Smirnoff and evil geniuses in innumerable action movies. Through August 2, the Lincoln Center Festival offers two riveting plays as examples: Georgian writer Rezo Gabriadze’s Ramona, about two trains in love, and a present-day adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 forbidden love drama Miss Julie, set in Russia. Click for tickets!


Hear Broadway’s Best Go Pop
July 27 at 54 Below
Lady Gaga is Hedwig and the Angry Inch co-creator John Cameron Mitchell's choice to play the transgender rock star, but sadly, she still hasn't made her Broadway debut. Until then, check out “54 Sings Lady Gaga,” where a roster full of Broadway and cabaret stars pay tribute to America’s favorite meat dress-wearing chanteuse. Click for tickets!


Join Bryce Pinkham’s Family Reunion
Begins July 28 at the Walter Kerr Theatre
Bryce Pinkham is a man of his word. After leaving to star in The Heidi Chronicles, the Tony nominee has made good on his promise to return to A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder as Monty Navarro. It’s like the old saying goes: When a stage door closes, the gods of Broadway open a ticket booth? A casting call? Whatever. You get the idea. Click for tickets!


Do Lunch and a Show
July 30 at Bryant Park
One of the perks of being a working adult is getting to eat lunch wherever you want, yet so many times we stick to the same spots: cubicle, lunch room that resembles an interrogation room, park benches that would make a proctologist squirm. Why don’t you treat yourself? Head down to Broadway in Bryant Park, where the casts of Matilda, On the Town and Les Miz are slated to perform today.


See Kristin Chenoweth's Evil Side
July 31, Disney Channel
You may have seen that Kristin Chenoweth is in Descendants and thought, “Why is Disney remaking that George Clooney movie?” Well, thankfully, they’re not. It’d be weird to see Kristin as Maleficent in a depressing family drama set in Hawaii. Instead, it's a family movie featuring the progeny of Disney villains and heroes at a prep school. That not only makes sense, it sounds like ideal curl-up-on-the-couch entertainment.