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TIP: Starting tomorrow Opera-For_all begins the first of three nights of performances. For cheap! The New York City Opera is selling tickets to every seat in the house for just $25. Over the course of "opera season" 50 or more seats in the front orchestra will be priced at just $25 as well. As for this week, here's the sched:

Thursday, September 6the OPERA FOR ALL Concert, with party to follow (this will showcase the orchestra in an 80-minute program of highlights from the season sung by City Opera artists.)
Friday, September 7 - La Bohème
Saturday, September 8 - Don Giovanni

READING: It's Fashion Week, so even the book stores are joining in on the madness. Tonight model, muse and memoirist(a) Alek Wek will read from her book titled: Alek. She fled the Sudan in the early 90s and ended up on the catwalk...so yeah, it's probably a pretty interesting read.

7pm // Barnes & Noble [675 6th Ave] // Free

EVENT: It's a meeting of the comedic masterminds tonight at the 92nd St Y where Michael Palin and Lorne Michaels sit down for a chat. Seriously: one of the creators of Monty Python and the creator of Saturday Night Live...together. And tickets are still on sale!

8pm // Kaufmann Concert Hall [Lexington Ave at 92nd St] // $26

SCIENCE: Union Hall's Secret Science Club is all growns up. Tonight it celebrates a full year in existence...with special guest Nobel Prize winning molecular biologist Harold Varmus! He's like the Arcade Fire of scientists, so to see him in a such a small room...well, get there early! He'll talk about why he quit lit(erature) at Harvard to become a scientist, the future of cancer research, and why America needs more nerds. Tonight's Nobel Prize winning cocktail?: the Scientific Method.

8pm // Union Hall [702 Union St, Park Slope] // Free

MUSIC: Charles Bissell of The Wrens (pictured), Overlord and Tris McCall take the stage at Monkeytown tonight. To be honest, we don't know much about the latter two's live show -- but we highly recommend checking out Charles solo! Listen here, watch AND listen here.

8pm // Monkeytown [58 N 3rd St, Williamsburg] // $7

THEATER: Angelica Torn’s performance as Sylvia Plath prompted The Wall Street Journal to declare her “an actress of the highest possible voltage.” Called Edge, the play originally premiered in 2003; she’s since performed it 286 times in four countries. (Will Plath become her signature role the way Hal Holbrooke has come to own Mark Twain? Or will Julia Stiles steal her thunder?) The play takes place in London on the last day of Plath's life as she reflects on her life, including her botched suicide in ‘53, her turbulent relationship with poet Ted Hughes and the events that ultimately drove her to stick her head in the oven and turn on the gas. - John Del Signore

8pm // ArcLight Theatre [152 West 71st St] // Tickets cost $35.

Photo via Little Quill's Flickr.