THEATER
MONDAY & THURSDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 & 19 - 22 (continuing through OCTOBER 14)
7:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY - SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Mac Wellman: The Invention of Tragedy
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan

$17-$102
http://theflea.org/shows/the-invention-of-tragedy/

The Flea kicks off its season-long tribute to "the Macs" — Flea co-founder Wellman (last name) and fellow Mac Taylor (first name) — with a world premiere by Wellman, a language-drunk absurdist who makes existential and political despair fun, often writing about the end of the world. This piece, though, deals with the aftermath of 9/11: the end of the world as we knew it.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Extraordinarily good falafel at Nish Nush.