Pencil This In

DISCUSSION: The one and only, legendary Kirk Douglas will be talking with Columbia undergraduate film studies director Annette Insdorf tonight. The 90 year old has a thing or two to say about life, and some stories about his own (the man survived a helicopter crash, for goodness sake), so listen up youngins.

8pm // 92nd St Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall [1395 Lexington Ave] // $25

THEATER: Curtains, the murder-mystery musical comedy by John Kander and the late Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago), takes place backstage at Boston’s Colonial theater in 1959, where the leading lady of a Broadway-bound musical (an Oklahoma knock-off called Robbin’ Hood) has been murdered on opening night. David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) stars as the detective investigating the crime, but, as a community-theater aficionado, he ends up more involved in solving Robbin’ Hood’s myriad problems. Curtains is still in previews, but there’s major buzz about it being a Producers level-hit. (We saw it this weekend and it's a roaring good time; get tickets now before the reviews appear on Friday.) Watch a video preview here. - John Del Signore

8pm // Al Hirschfeld Theatre [302 W 45th St] // Ticket prices vary

EVENT: Those crazy LVHRD-ers are up to their old tricks. Tonight they throw an event that is, in part, the world's only competitive eating vending machine event. Forget about why...find out who will consume the entire contents of a vending machine first? Only one way to find out.

8pm // Locations TBA // $22

MUSIC: At posting time, tickets are still on sale for the Explosions in the Sky show tonight at Webster Hall...so what are you waiting for? Check out the band below, performing on Conan:

Opening are The Paper Chase and Eluvium.

7pm // Webster Hall [125 East 11th St] // $15