THEATER: It's the West Coast premiere of the musical production of Coraline, in which a latch-key kid dreams up a new reality with a loving Other Mother and a kindly Other Father, which quickly turns creepy. The play was adapted from the children's book, featuring music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. The production runs through January 15th.

8 p.m. // The SF Playhouse (533 Sutter St) // $30

SCIENCE: Get ready for another nerd fest with Nerd Nite SF #6: Mars, Penguins, and Gonorrhea, featuring “Mars’s Lumpy Bumpy Neato Magneto(sphero)” by Dave Brain, planetary space physicist at UC Berkeley, “Penguins: The True Chicken of the Sea” by Brooke Weinstein, aquatic biologist at the California Academy of Sciences, and “The Perilous Infirmity of Burning: the History of Neisseria Gonorrhea” by D Muthulingam, med student at UCSF.

7:30 to 11 p.m. // Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell St) $8

OPEN MIC: The monthly Smack Dab open mic night, "the friendliest open mic you’ll find," is open to all ages and co-hosted by Holy Titclamps' and SFQueer.com's Larry-bob Roberts, who has a new book out from Manic D Press, The International Homosexual Conspiracy.

8 to 9:30 p.m. // Magnet (4122 18th St) // free