Today’s entertainment picks:


Today’s entertainment picks:

v Party on the Plaza, 7 p.m.: The Labra Brothers will take the stage at this outdoor, after-work party in the water department parking lot on West Federal Street.

v Scrappers baseball, 7:05 p.m.: The local baseball team takes on Williamsport, Pa., at Eastwood Field in Niles. After the game, stick around for fireworks. For ticket info, go to mvscrappers.com or call 330-505-0000.

v “The Little Mermaid,” 8 p.m.: The musical, based on the hit Disney animated film, continues at Kent Trumbull Theater ($18, $16 for seniors and students and $14 for children 12 and under). The campus is at 4314 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren; call 330-675-8887 for reservations.

v “Forbidden Youngstown,” 8 p.m.: An original and bawdy musical spoof of local and Broadway theater ($15, $10 for seniors and students) at Rust Belt Theater Co.’s venue in Calvin Center, 755 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown; 330-507-2358.

v “Elf Jr.,” 7:30 p.m.: Sure, it’s July, but this modern classic, based on the hit Christmas movie, is always in season. The Dublin Grange Theatre youth troupe is staging it ($15, $10 students, free for children 4 and under). The theater is 6571 Fairground Blvd., Canfield; 330-518-4064.

“Free to rock” (10 p.m., pbs): This documentary explores how American rock contributed to the end of the Cold War.

“Room 104”(11:30 P.M., HBO): This new scripted anthology series from brothers Mark and Jay Duplass that tells the tales of the offbeat characters who pass through a single room of a typical American chain motel. Let’s just hope Norman Bates isn’t involved.

TV listings, C3

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Servicemen can get Zac Brown tickets

YOUNGSTOWN

Active and veteran U.S. servicemen and women can get free tickets to the Aug. 24 Zac Brown Band concert at Stambaugh Stadium under the Let Freedom Fly initiative, sponsored by concert promoter JAC Live and Covelli Enterprises.

To kick off the initiative, Sam Covelli, president and CEO of Covelli Enterprises, has agreed to sponsor 150 tickets for military personnel, and U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan has agreed to sponsor 30 tickets.

To learn more about sponsoring tickets, contact Jake Jacubec at jjacubec@jacmg.com or 330-746-5182.

Sponsorship packages are also available. For information, go to ylivemusic.com/groups.

Squeeze will play Goodyear Theater

AKRON

Squeeze will give its first concert in Northeast Ohio in nearly a decade when it comes to the Goodyear Theater on Nov. 24. It will be the British band’s only appearance in the region.

Led by founding members Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, the band had a string of hits in the ’80s and ’90s, including “Black Coffee In Bed,” “Tempted,” “Pulling Mussels (From The Shell).”

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today at ticketfly.com, by phone at 877-435-9849 and at the theater box office, 1201 E. Market St.