EVENT: Tonight is the "Taxi 07: Transforming and Icon" event, marking the 100th anniversary of the New York taxi. The Design Trust for Public Space have gathered together members of the city’s design community and tonight they discuss ideas for the redesign the yellow cab. The idea of a redesign was announced back in 2005.

6:30pm // Cooper Hewitt Design Museum [2 E 91st St] // $10

THEATER: Cherry Lane Theatre is reviving Amiri Baraka's controversial play, Dutchman, which first premiered at Cherry Lane in 1964. (Baraka last made headlines when his position as poet laureate of New Jersey was revoked because of his poem Somebody Blew up America, which suggests that Mossad had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.) In the fast and ferocious Dutchman, a white woman seduces a naïve bourgeois black man on the subway “with terrifying results”. The show features Dulé Hill (The West Wing); director Bill Duke is transforming the Cherry Lane Theatre into a “total environment” for the play. (For further reading, the Times has an in-depth feature on Baraka here.) - John Del Signore

8pm // Cherry Lane Theater [38 Commerce Street] // Tickets cost $35

MUSIC: We're bummed about not getting tickets to The Hold Steady at Northsix tonight, so we'll be at home watching The Office. If you need some music tonight though, head over to Hiro for a deejay set by The Juan Maclean and a live set by Professor Murder.

Listen: Champion.mp3 - Professor Murder

10pm // Hiro Ballroom [363 West 16th St] // $20

And don't forget about the Cold War Kids art show.