• Punk rockers the Dresden Dolls hit the Black Cat. Count Zero opens. 8:30 p.m. $10.

  • “Grace,” a dark comedy from “Six Feet Under” writer Craig Wright, is now being performed by the Wooly Mammoth theater company at the Warehouse Theater on Seventh Street NW. 8 p.m. $24-32.

  • Nick Swardson of “Reno 911” is at the DC Improv. 8:30 p.m. $15.

  • The International Washington Horse Show has galloped into town. (Ha ha. Look at us. We make funny puns.) Events go on ’til Sunday, and this evening there are some jumping contests of some sort. MCI Center. 7 p.m. $20-40. Neigh.

  • Critic Stanley Crouch, who’s taken on Borges, Michael Jackson, and Quentin Tarantino in essays, discusses his new book, “The Artificial White Man,” at Politics and Prose tonight. 7 p.m.