7pm // Warsaw [261 Driggs Ave, Greenpoint] // $45

MOVIE: The “really alternative film festival,” CineKink NYC, kicks off tonight. Entering its 5th year with a Gala, the celebration will be followed by almost one weeks worth of movies that "range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn - and everything in between." So add a little spice to your week and head over to the Gala event tonight, which is followed by a triple-threat screening (three movies, three NYC directors) and includes free drinks, a raffle and much more. More info here.

8pm // Taj [48 W 21st St] // $20

EVENT: Tonight join in the celebration of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart -- which is turning the big 5-0. Toni Morrison, Chris Abani, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danticat, Suheir Hammad, Ha Jin, and Colum McCann will all be on hand to discuss the author's literary influence. You'll also catch a performance by the Francesca Harper Dance Project with dancers from the Alvin Ailey School.

8pm // Town Hall [123 W 43rd St] // $15

THEATER: The “darkly comic” new musical Adding Machine, in town after a successful Chicago premiere, is an adaptation of Elmer Rice's incendiary 1923 play, which tells the story of Mr. Zero, a lowly bean counter who murders his boss after being replaced by the titular mechanical adding machine. The musical follows Zero’s “journey to the afterlife in the Elysian Fields where he is met with one last chance for romance and redemption.” Waxing rhapsodic in today’s Times, Charles Isherwood says the “improbably brilliant little musical… radiates the unmistakable heat, the entrancing light, of aesthetic inspiration.” – John Del Signore

8pm // Minetta Lane Theatre [18 Minetta Lane] // Ticket prices vary.

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