Pencil This In

THEATER: The Fringe Festival is over and pretty much every stage in town is dark tonight, but the Abingdon Theater Co. is producing a reading of Stephen Cone's Lacrimosa, about an famed evangelist and his wife who seclude themselves in their big mansion, thinking the Second Coming is near, but instead a strange girl arrives, and the evangelist's volatile brother, and with them all the problems and craziness of our mixed-up world, jolting them from their comfortable complacency. This reading will be even more interesting because minster and evangelical expert Cathy Gilliard is on hand for a talk-back. - Mallory Jensen

Tonight at 7:30 // Abingdon Theater [312 W. 36th St., 1st floor] // Free, but go early or make reservations ahead of time at Smarttix

READINGS: Margaret Sartor reads tonight at the Half King from her new novel, Miss American Pie. The novel is Sartor's journal entries from her teen years in 1970s Louisiana. As Sartor comes of age (the diaries span the ages from 13 to 18), she searches for God, questions the unfairness of a segregated school system, discovers her best friend is gay, and ponders, for many entries, a teenage girl's biggest concern: boys. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

7pm // The Half King [W. 23rd St. at 10th Ave] // Free

COMEDY: Tonight Patrick Borelli presents: Stand-Up Show Down. Some funny guys and gals will go face to face in a showdown that will hopefully end in laughs. Kristen Schaal, Val Kappa and Debbie Shea take on Eugene Mirman, Leo Allen and Bobby Tisdale. Patrick Borelli refs.

8:30pm // Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction [34 Ave A] // $6

MUSIC: Guess who's back? You'll never guess. Seriously. It's too random.

The Gin Blossoms!

They will be playing songs from their new album, Major Lodge Victory, at the Apple Store. But we bet if you scream out for one of their 90's tunes, they'll play that too.

8pm // Apple Store SoHo [103 Prince St] // Free