ART: At tonight's installment of the Soundwave Festival (4), The Archives of the Natural World in the Illuminated Forest, singer-songwriter Odessa Chen will collaborate with sound artist [ruidobello] and visual artist Samuel Leshnick to investigate what we lose, and what we have already lost, by forcing species into extinction.

8 p.m. // The Lab (2948 16th St) // $8-10

THEATER: Christopher Moore Plays the Fool with Litquake and A.C.T., is a staged reading from Moore’s bestselling novel Fool, which is a revisit of Shakespeare’s King Lear told from the perspective of the Fool. The performance was fashioned by acclaimed A.C.T. director Mark Rucker and will feature a cast of A.C.T. actors as well as the author himself as the narrator.

8 p.m. // Brava Theater Center (2781 24th St) // $22-25

FILM: At 3rd i's Speaker Series' The Bard in Bollywood: Shakespeare Re-invented, Prof. Gitanjali Shahani will use clips from both classic (Merchant-Ivory’s Shakespeare Wallah) and contemporary films (Vishal Bharadwaj’s Maqbool and Omakra) to introduce us to the many manifestations, adaptations, and appropriations of Shakespeare in Bollywood.

7 p.m. // Artists’ Television Access (992 Valencia St) // $8-10