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ERIC BOGOSIAN. His monologues and screenplays have set loose enough strange and frustrated characters to populate a shelf of novels, and over the past few years he’s begun collecting them that way. He’s followed up his suburban novel Mall with an urban companion, Wasted Beauty, and he’ll read from it May 11 at 6 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Tickets are $2 and available from Brookline Booksmith; call (617) 566-6660. "AN EVENING OF HAVEL." It takes a rash fatalism to found a Boston theater company called Molasses Tank Productions. (You’ll recall the bomb-like explosion and the sticky, lingering after-effects of the infamous North End flood . . . ) But MTP pulled off last season’s Ionesco, Not Ionesco, and now it’s back with "An Evening of Havel," presenting two short works by the dissident playwright and future president of the Czech Republic. The works share Vanek, an everyman protagonist: in "Unveiling," a bourgeois couple go to embarrassing lengths to convince him of their happiness; and in "Audience," he’s asked to cover up the shortcomings of a co-worker — specifically, a "quirky, perpetually drunk foreman with an over-active bladder." It runs May 12 through 28 at the Charlestown Working Theater, 442 Bunker Hill Street. Admission is $15; call (617) 242-3285. CHICAGO. Somehow, a song-and-dance routine about a murderous tart whose bloodlust increases with her fame never loses its luster. The latest revival hits the Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont Street in the Theater District, May 17 through 22. Tickets are $28 to $75; call (800) 447-7400. "THE ESSENTIAL DANCESONGS." Ken Field’s chamber/rock group Birdsongs of the Mesozoic returns to the Dance Complex to perform live music for works choreographed to their songs by DC faculty members Daniel McCusker, Diane Arvanites-Noya and Tommy Neblett, Margot Parsons, Honey Blonder, Danny Swain, and Rozann Kraus, who has set her quartet Central Square to a tune written for Field’s other group, the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble. Performances are May 21 and 22 at the Dance Complex, 536 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square. Tickets are $15; call (617) 547-9363.
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