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BOOKS: Any day is a good day to head to Goodbye Blue Monday, but tonight you can be a part of the Bushwick Book Club, "an event of unparalleled songwriting nerdery." Tonight it all gets kicked off with local songwriters, Phoebe Kreutz, Chloe Matheou, Liv Carrow and Susan Hwang performing songs inspired by and based on Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. Book-themed food and drink are served, and audience members are encouraged to give in to any Vonnegut-inspired impassioned outbursts." More details here.

8 p.m. // Goodbye Blue Monday [1087 Broadway, Brooklyn]

EVENT: Tonight MoMA and PopRally are presenting an evening of film, comedy, and drinking titled Silent But Deadly. Max Silvestri says: "Those are three of my top four things! (There will sadly be no tacos at this event.) This is the deal: there will be a reception with (free) drinks at 7 at MoMA, then at 8 I'll be hosting a screening of three silent comedy shorts from MoMA's archive, presented with live piano accompaniment. After each short, a few "contemporary comedians" will be responding to these shorts with never before seen short films. These comedians include me, Nick Kroll, Joe Mande, Gabe & Jenny, and ThunderAnt (Fred Armisen of SNL and Carrie Brownstein formerly of Sleater Kinney). Then after that, we drink some more!" Sounds like a good reason to brave tonight's storm.

7 p.m. // MoMA [11 W 53rd St] // $12

THEATER: There have been no shortage of Hedda Gabler revivals in recent years, with Cate Blanchett playing Ibsen's restless malcontent at BAM in 2006, Elizabeth Marvel portraying her in Ivo Van Hove's sensational 2004 production, and robots replacing humans in Les Freres Corbusier's take. Now fully-emerged playwright Christopher Shinn has a go, in a Roundabout production starring Mary-Louise Parker that begins tonight. Shinn, who is in psychoanalysis five times a week according to a recent Times profile, says, "Ibsen is my favorite playwright and the writer I always dreamed about adapting, so I felt like I could do it even though I didn’t speak the language." - John Del Signore

8 p.m. // American Airlines Theatre [227 W 42nd St] // Tickets