Pencil This In

READING: Olympia Dukakis, who you know from such films as Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias, will be at Barnes & Noble tonight. She'll be reading from a brand spakin' new edition of Bertolt Brecht’s play Mother Courage and Her Children. She recently put down the Oscar and picked up a pen to write the forward to the antiwar classic.

7pm // Barnes & Noble [1972 Broadway] // Free

EVENT: Tonight the Raw Word Reading hits Galapagos, giving you a glimpse at what happens before a movie becomes a movie. Absorb three ten-page screenplay excerpts written by up and comers, and read by up and coming actors. A special film industry guest is promised, who will help give feedback.

7pm // Galapagos [70 N 6th St] // Free

THEATER: The legendary Amazons, that mythical nation of all-female warriors, provide the template for Clubbed Thumb’s elaborate study of German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, notorious for her Nazi propaganda film The Triumph of the Will. Before war interrupted her, Riefenstahl had been working on a film adaptation of Penthesilea, a play about the titular Amazonian queen. In Clubbed Thumb's fictional version, called Amazons and their Men, “the play takes place on the Frau's sound stage, and we see the scenes of her film as if they're scraps of forgotten film rescued from the cutting room floor: Penthesilea falls dangerously in love with Achilles on the battlefield of the Trojan War. As Amazons progresses, we become increasingly aware that the world outside the Frau's sound stage is 1939 Germany." – John Del Signore

8pm // Ohio Theatre [66 Wooster St] // Tickets cost $25

MUSIC: The legendary French producer Mr. Oizo (of Ed Banger Records) will own the Hiro Ballroom tonight. Get your Parisian electro dance pants ready and head over there early for a free beer! Also deejaying is Spencer Product.

11pm // Hiro Ballroom [371 W 16th St] // Free