Here are today’s entertainment picks:
v Serbian Day picnic: Enjoy ethnic foods and music from noon to 9 p.m. at Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church, 39 Laird St., Youngstown.
v Pymatuning Pioneer and Art Festival: Enjoy the surroundings at Pymatuning State Park, 2660 Williamsfield Road, Jamestown, Pa., as you browse through vendor booths or watch the Civil War encampment.
v Sunfest: There will be something to do or see from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Wick Recreation Area, 260 Park Ave., Youngstown. Zumba, crafts, sand sculpture, car show and music will be featured.
v Sunfest: There will be something to do or see from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Wick Recreation Area, 260 Park Ave., Youngstown. Zumba, crafts, sand sculpture, car show and music will be featured.
v Warren City Wide Youth Choir: The fourth annual summer concert will be at 6 p.m. at Warren Community Amphitheatre, 321 Mahoning Ave., NW, Warren. The choir has more than 100 singers.
v “Hairspray, The Musical”: Kent Trumbull Theater, 4314 Mahoning Ave., NW, Champion, stages the exuberant musical at 3 p.m.
“MANHATTAN” (9 p.m., WGN America): This gripping and provocative new drama series is set in Los Alamos, N.M., against the backdrop of the clandestine mission to build the world’s first atomic bomb. John Benjamin Hickey (“The Big C”) shines as a self- destructive physics professor who is recruited to help lead the Manhattan Project and finds himself living in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate all aspects of everyday life.
“Masterpiece Mystery!” (9 p.m., PBS): David Suchet begins his final episodes as “Hercule Poirot” in the popular series. Tonight, the master sleuth navigates international intrigues while investigating the shocking death of a Russian chess grandmaster.
“Masters of Sex” (10 p.m., Showtime): The second season continues with an episode that has Virginia (Lizzy Caplan) learning about Masters’ (Michael Sheen) troubled childhood during a secret rendezvous at a hotel.
“Frankenfood” (9 p.m., Spike): They’re cookin’ turducken at Black’s Barbecue in Lockhart, Texas.
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Players to stage Shakespeare in park
YOUNGSTOWN
The Mahoning Valley Players, Youngstown’s only free summer theater, celebrates its fourth year with a production of William Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Morley Pavilion in Mill Creek MetroParks.
Directed by Elizabeth Conrad, this piece takes the classic work of Shakespeare and turns it on its head, with a high-concept vision.
Performances take place Aug. 1 and 2 at 6 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
Audience members are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.
