DANCE: Enjoy a wine and appetizer reception preceding a special ODC/Dance Downtown one-hour performance, featuring Something About a Nightingale, River, and 24 Exposures. ODC will be performing at Yerba Buena through March 28.

5:30 to 7:30 // Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Novellus Theater (700 Howard St) // $20

THEATER: Killing My Lobster Preaches to the Choir "puts our belief systems under the almighty microscope" with sketches that include a "couple's run-in with the SF Parking Gods, Heaven's bitchy bouncer, and plenty more surprises."

8 p.m. // The Jewish Theatre (470 Florida St) // $15-20

MUSIC: Help determine which bands will play at the Haight Street Fair this year at the 2010 Battle of the Bands and Crash-up Derby Contest, which will happen on several Thursdays through May. Tonight's line-up will be Tokyo Raid, Pan Demon, Bitch Be Cool, Housecoat Project, and Red Penny One. All proceeds will go to the Haight Street Fair.

9 p.m. // Paradise Lounge (1501 Folsom St) // $7