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6 to 9 p.m. // Southside Speakeasy [245 South 1st St, Williamsburg] // Free
SPORTS: Ignite your balls of fury at the monthly Padl Batl event tonight (held every 3rd Wednesday). Held in the basement of a Greenpoint church, the series of ping pong mini tournaments is open to the competitive and just plain curious.
6:30 p.m. // 129 Russell St, Brooklyn // $5
MUSIC: As the bands are all Austin-bound by now, it's slim pickins for music this week. Over at Mercury Lounge you can catch Frog Eyes (pictured), Papertrigger, Hospitality and Julianna Barwick. We highly recommend checking out the headliner; listen up: Bushels.mp3 - Frog Eyes
7:30 p.m. // Mercury Lounge [17 East Houston St] // $10
THEATER: An exceptional ensemble – including Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn and Maria Tucci – is conspiring on Richard Nelson’s new play Conversations in Tusculum, which takes place in the villas and hillsides near Rome in the months before Julius Caesar’s assassination. In that idyllic setting, orators like Cicero (Dennehy) and politicians like Cassius (Strathairn) agonize over what to do about the war-monger ruining their country. (Liberal New York audiences are encouraged to draw their own analogies.) Writing for the Times, Ben Brantley says the play has dramatic flaws but is still “fun” and “remarkably vivid in conjuring up the character of Caesar, as he exists through the prisms of the obsessed minds of those who feel they have become his humiliated slaves.” – John Del Signore
8 p.m. // The Public Theater [425 Lafayette St.] // Ticket prices vary.
EVENT: Splatter Nebula splatters a wide array of variety in Williamsburg tonight. Head to 507 Bar and Grill to experience comedy, live music, storytelling, short films and cheap drinks.
8:30 p.m. // 507 Bar and Grill [507 Grand St, Williamsburg] // Free
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