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BENEFIT: Tonight go out in the name of pot, at the New York Benefit to Celebrate Recent Medical Marijuana Successes. The evening includes music and comedy with the hopes of pushing the cannabis campaign to victory! The Marijuana Policy Project will host the spring soiree, which benefits its "efforts to protect seriously ill New Yorkers from arrest and jail if they use medical marijuana with their doctor's recommendation." Some of the bold face names on hand include: Lewis Black, Tucker Carlson, Michelle Phillips, John Stossel and many many more. And on top of all that: Nicole Atkins will be performing.

6 p.m. // Highline Ballroom [431 West 16th St] // $300

READING: Suze Rotolo has finally written her personal memoir, A Freewheelin Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. You've seen her before, walking down Jones Street on the famous Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album cover; and tonight she'll be on hand chatting about her romance with Dylan, and much more. Get those questions ready!

7 p.m. // Housing Works Used Book Café [126 Crosby St] // Free

COMEDY: The new comedy show, A Political Party! starts previews tonight. Each week "scribes from a group of 20 New York-based writers and composers will ensure that, if a news story breaks, it will be satirized, organized and fully choreographed that very week!" Buy tickets here.

8 and 10 p.m. // Sage Theater [711 7th Ave] // $12 to $20

THEATER: The critically-praised British satire Unconquered is here for a few more days as part of the Brits Off Broadway festival. Based on a Somerset Maugham story about a Frenchwoman raped by a German soldier, Torben Betts’s 2007 play absurdly confines the actors to a tiny set resembling a comic-book panel. The Times’s Andrea Stevens says the “game cast delivers his words at Acela-like speed while retaining the humor,” and critic Jo Ann Rosen calls it “a breathless and impressive ride.” – John Del Signore

8:15 p.m. // 59E59 Theaters [59 East 59th Street] // Tickets cost $37.50