Pencil This In

READING: We may have lost Estelle Getty, but Golden Girl Rue McLanahan is here, and tonight she reads from her memoir My First Five Husbands & the Ones Who Got Away. "Blanche" covers all the basics of getting older, and wiser when it comes to love and marriage.

7 p.m. // The Drama Book Shop [250 W 40th St] // Free

EVENT: The Indie Press Series returns tonight by honoring Brooklyn’s Hanging Loose Press which began in 1966 as a “magazine of mimeographed loose pages in a cover envelope, and has since published 143 books including the first books by Sherman Alexie, Kimiko Hahn, D. Nurkse, and many others. Tonight’s works include Marie Carter’s novel based on her own study of trapeze, hip-hop inflected poetry from Brooklyn poet Michael Cirelli, and a new collection from New York School poet Tony Towle."

7 p.m. // McNally Jackson [52 Prince St] // Free

THEATER: In Conflict is an award-winning docudrama about Iraq war veterans, adapted from the book of the same name, which consists of shocking interviews with the scarred young soldiers back home. The Times's Ben Brantley calls it "sober and affecting," while noting that "no cast on or off Broadway these days shares fewer professional stage credits than the young ensemble of In Conflict...Yet inexperience, in this instance, is an asset, part of a strangely harmonious matching of performers and the characters they embody. It’s this double layer of rawness — untried actors trying to make sense of the feelings of untried soldiers suddenly tested in ways that strain sanity — that gives In Conflict its particular biting poignancy." After tonight's performance, Jen Hogg of Service Women's Action Network and Iraq Veterans Against the War will moderate a panel "to explore the misconceptions" around the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. – John Del Signore

8 p.m. // Barrow Street Theatre [27 Barrow Street] // $35

MUSIC: Skeleton$ (apparently Skeletons and the Girl Faced Boys changed their name?), Arrington De Dionyso (of Old Time Relijun) and Jason Trachtenberg will fill the intimate Zebulon room with sound tonight. And rejoice: it's free!

9 p.m. // Zebulon [258 Wythe Ave, Williamsburg] // Free