Pencil This In

MOVIE: Michael Moore is in town with his latest film that's pissing off the government while informing the nation, Sicko (trailer here). Get ready to be filled with rage as the carpet is pulled back on the American healthcare system and much, much more.

7pm // Museum of the Moving Image [35th Avenue at the corner of 36th Street, Astoria] // $10 * Moved to June 28th! *

THEATER: Prolific British playwright Alan Ayckbourn has written a “sequence” of eight comedies dubbed Intimate Exchanges which all start with the same scene and then diverge depending on a character’s most trivial decisions – like lighting a cigarette. Actors Bill Champion and Claudia Elmhirst portray a half-dozen roles in each play, and much hilarity ensues from their ingenuous methods of slipping adroitly in and out of roles. To fully glimpse the scope of each character’s fate would require seeing all eight plays at least twice, because each sequence has two possible endings! The Times’s Charles Isherwood says that would be like eating a jumbo-sized bag of potato chips; he recommends limiting yourself to four. Tear open the bag tonight with Affairs in a Tent. – John Del Signore

8pm // 59E59 Theaters [59 East 59th St] // Tickets cost $55.

MUSIC: Didn't get tickets to see Meg and Jack? Don't you cry, dear reader, there's more music in this town tonight. Head to Knitting Factory, bask in the glow of their new lighting system, and get your pants rocked off by another duo, Big Business. They're described as "a brutal and hard-hitting duo that have also been recent additions to the legendary Melvins band. Their extremely heavy sound represents stellar sludge-metal in all of its muddled glory." Panthers and Hull are also on the bill. Tickets on sale here.

8pm // Knitting Factory main space [74 Leonard St] // $12

REMINDER: Shakespeare in the Park is still happening, thou knowest the drill, but listen up: "Due to a benefit supporting free Shakespeare in the Park, there will be NO distribution for Romeo and Juliet on Tuesday, June 19. There will be a standby line at the Delacorte Theater. Tickets will be distributed to the stand-by line if/as they become available between 6:30 and 8:00 pm. Stand-by line is 1 ticket per person. "