Pencil This In

READING: Alice Walker's daughter, Rebecca Walker, reads from her book "Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence". Babies, family, pregnancy...will all be discussed.

7pm // Barnes & Noble [675 Sixth Ave] // Free

EVENT: Ever wonder how Shakespeare would respond to current events? Well someone did, and now there's an event series, Conversations with Shakespeare, based around what he would do if he were alive today. In other words, WWSD? This week "your favorite actors gather with experts in the field to explore Shakespeare’s take – and ours today – on the mysteries, myths and physics of time, space and the cosmos.”

7:30pm // Symphony Space [2537 Broadway at 95th St] // $20

MAGIC: It seems the only time we hear about magic these days is when David Blaine has a new stunt to pull. Tonight you can catch some magic sans Blaine at the Theatre at St. Clement's. Performers Jamy Ian Swiss, RJ Lewis and Asi will bend your mind, and who knows what else.

8pm // Theatre at St. Clement's [423 W 46th St] // $32.50 to $37.50

MUSIC: Peasant, Trainwreck Riders, Illinois and...Michael Jordan are at Cake Shop tonight. Wow, the last act should really change his name. Trainwreck Riders are a fun band to catch, they sound pretty much like their name - and Illinois brings indie banjo rock to a new level. It'll be well worth standing on the crooked Cake Shop floors for.

8pm // Cake Shop [ 152 Ludlow St] // $6

THEATER: Little Theater is a monthly medley of new and developing performance pieces at Tonic. Curated by playwright Jeff Jones and playwright/director/actor Kate Ryan, it’s become a fertile testing ground for the downtown, “experimental” theater crowd. You never really know who’s going to pop up with their latest concoction, so it’s usually surprising, often hilarious and, thanks to Tonic’s bar, always well lubricated. (For more info, here’s an old Brooklyn Rail interview with Jones, Ryan and Kristen Kosmas, one of the original founders of Little Theater. - John Del Signore

8pm // Tonic [107 Norfolk Street] // Admission is $8