To Do

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THEATER

1. See The Baker's Wife

Song is the staff of life.

Classic Stage Company, opens October 23.
Stephen Schwartz has been a hitmaker for most of his career: This fall, he's got both The Queen of Versailles and Wicked: For Good coming out. But you rarely hear about this late-'70s curio that never made it to Broadway and is most famous for producing the great song "Meadowlark." Here's your chance to see it with Ariana DeBose in the title role and Scott Bakula as the baker she abandons.

JACKSON MCHENRY

TV

2. Watch I Love L.A.

A voice of a generation, again.

HBO, November 2.

The long-foretold rise of comedian Rachel Sennott finally brings her to prestige-TV shores. Across the country, columnists crack their knuckles and buckle down to begin think pieces about how the next big generational comedy is set in Los Angeles rather than New York. KATHRYN VANARENDONK

ART

3. See Richard Serra

Architectural and majestic.

Gagosian, 522 West 21st Street; through December 20.
Serra's terrific three-piece work Running Arcs (For John Cage) was exhibited only once before in Germany. Its curved plates are inviting, intimidating, and pleasurable to behold. We peer in awe, navigate its space, and contemplate its otherness. JERRY SALTZ

MOVIES

4. See Paperhouse
Troubled visitations.
Museum of the Moving Image, October 26.
Less a children's movie than a movie about the tumult and uncertainty of being a child, this 1988 British dark fantasy is filled with more haunting imagery than any slasher. A fever-stricken girl dreams about visiting the house she's been drawing, only to find a boy there who has his own devastating health problems. ALISON WILLMORE

MUSIC