Today’s entertainment picks:

Today’s entertainment picks:

v Greater Youngstown Italian Fest, 1-11 p.m.: Jimmy Alleva takes the stage at 9 p.m. at this festival ($4) along Central Square in downtown Youngstown; youngstownitalianfest.org.

v The Purple Xperience, 5:30 p.m.: This Prince tribute band ($9) will start at 8:30 p.m. Opening the show at Warren Community Amphitheater will be ’80s act Billy Morris and the Sunset Strip Band; riverrockattheamp.com.

v Northern Whiskey, 5 p.m.: Modern country band in free show at Mosquito Lake State Park marina, off state Route 305, near Cortland.

v “Bubba’s Revenge: Honkytonk Angels Final Chapter,” 7:30 p.m.: The toe-tapping story of the fictitious female vocal group comes to its conclusion ($15, $11 for seniors and $9 for children under 18) at Salem Community Theatre, 490 E. State St., Salem; 330-332-9688.

v A Night of Magic and Comedy, 7:30 p.m.: Valley magician Eric Thompson will star in this show ($20) at Trumbull New Theatre, 5883 Youngstown Warren Road, Niles; 330-652-1103.

“Boston EMS” (10 p.m., ABC): On the new unscripted series “Boston EMS,” viewers ride along with members of the Boston Emergency Services, the coolheaded team of first-responders who make up the first step in the chain of trauma care.

For complete listings, see TV Week magazine, included with today’s paper.

LOCAL TOPICS ON TV

“Community Connection” (Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on 21 WFMJ-TV and 11 a.m. on WBCB-TV): Krish Mohip, CEO of Youngstown City Schools, will join host Madonna Chism Pinkard to discuss his plans for the district.

SDSqA Conversation With Dee” (today at 6:30 p.m. on MyYTV and Sunday at 7:30 a.m. on WYTV-TV): Host Dee Crawford will welcome Jennifer Merritt of Mahoning County Educational Service Center, who will discuss the Adult 22+ Diploma Program.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Play awakens ‘Potter’ mania

LONDON

There are fans with wands and wizard costumes, midnight book parties and throngs of excited muggles.

Harry Potter’s magic is back.

Nine years after J.K. Rowling’s final novel about the boy wizard, Harry has returned, on the stage and the page – and he’s still producing commercial alchemy.

“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” a two-part stage drama that picks up 19 years after the novels ended, gets its gala opening today at London’s Palace Theatre.

It’s already a hit.

Although producers won’t release ticket sales figures, the show is largely sold out through December 2017; another 250,000 tickets will go on sale Thursday.

It is not just the theater that is seeing a Potter-related boom. Booksellers expect a bonanza when the script is published Sunday.

Thousands of bookstores around the world are holding midnight Potter parties today, and are reporting advance sales not seen since the 2007 publication of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the final novel in Rowling’s seven-book series.