FILM: The Seward Park Branch of the New York Public Library is running a little free film series out of their basement. Expect to see some old 16mm prints of short films ranging from sci-fi to 1970's educational films. One librarian at the branch tells us, "we're kind of recreating that feeling of school back in the day, when the a/v dude would roll in the movie projector on a cart, and you'd get a chance to watch some movie instead of listening to your teacher drone on." More info here.

6 p.m. // Seward Park Library [192 E Broadway] // Free

MUSIC: Elf Power, Dawn Landes, House & Parish and Arbor Day are at Mercury Lounge tonight. Dawn (pictured) played our very first SXSW show, and just released a new album called Fireproof (check out a video from one of the songs, here).

7 p.m. // Mercury Lounge [217 E Houston St] // $10

THEATER: Playwright Mike Daisey, who advances the solo monologist form pioneered by Spalding Gray, has been causing a stir in the theater world with his trenchant critique on America’s dysfunctional theater making machine. Next week his play How Theater Failed America returns to the Public, or rather, Joe’s Pub, for five consecutive Monday night performances. Tonight he reads from a new play, The Moon is a Dead World, at the remarkably functional Soho Rep, as part of the theater’s Writer/Director Lab Reading Series. – John Del Signore

7 p.m. // Soho Rep [46 Walker St] // Free

COMEDY: Manhattan gets a little taste of Queens tonight at UCB. "From the projects of Lefrak City to the McMansions of Howard Beach, viral video sensation, Greg Scarnici skewers six colorful characters from the borough of big hair and even bigger accents. In his latest one man show, this Queens native breathes life into a transsexual prostitute, a construction worker, a bisexual rapper, a bachelorette, and yes, a few queens."

8 p.m. // UCB Theater [307 W 26th St] // $5

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