Pencil This In

READING: The BRIC Rotunda Gallery and New York Magazine are having another of their Stoop Series tonight. New York Magazine's contributing editor, Logan Hill, will talk with New York's newest young filmmakers: Ramin Bahrani, Julia Loktev and Chris Zalla. What else? Free drinks! Beer and Johnny Walker Blue Label, to be exact.

7pm // Rotunda Gallery [33 Clinton St, Brooklyn] // Free

THEATER: Charles Mee’s Orestes 2.0 is at HERE again (a 2001 production was called “playful and anarchic”) by the Times. According to the Backstage review of this revival, “a musty toga-fest it ain’t.” The politically-tinged retelling of Euripides's tragicomedy “wheels brother and sister Orestes and Electra through a nightmarish and comic dreamscape of autopsy suites, hospital wards, kangaroo courtrooms, and hostage takings as they face the emotional and legal consequences of having murdered their mother, who murdered their father." Mee’s linguistic and theatrical acrobatics, when performed by the right tumblers, can be unforgettable. - John Del Signore

7pm // HERE [145 6th Ave] // Tickets cost $20

EVENT: "Simply Absurd" discusses the comedy of late night with one Conan O'Brien and his head writer, Mike Sweeney. How have they kept funny almost every day for about 15 years? Maybe they'll let you know...

7:30pm // Museum of Television and Radio [25 W 52nd St] // $15-$30

MUSIC: The Cloud Room returns tonight - with their first show in a long time (after touring with the National and Muse last year). The band will be playing new songs (as well as your old faves). There will be free cocktails. And all money from the show goes to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Here's their video for "Hey Now Now" (filmed mostly in Seward Park):

8pm // Hiro Ballroom [363 W 16th St] // $30 (email rsvp2beatkick (at) gmail.com)