Photo by Aimee Custis.

PODCAST: Lean & Hungry, the audio theater company creating “1 hour, audio versions of English language classics,” is launching a new podcast. Join them in this celebration of Season One: Romeo & Juliet. Amazon (601 New Jersey Avenue NW #900) 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Cash bar.

SHORTS: The Festival of New Spanish Cinema begins on Thursday. Try your luck at winning tickets at Shorts Night at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain. (2801 16th Street NW) 6:30-8 p.m. Free

PLASTIC SURGERY: Watch a screening of the film Looker, part of a film series that’s retracing “the evolution of computer-generated imagery in cinema from the first steps in the mid 70s to this day.” Hirshhorn Museum – Ring Auditorium (700 Independence Avenue SW) 7 p.m. Free

Later this week…

TUESDAY: Learn about the “less-travelled roads” north of Madrid when the Smithsonian Associates present “The Other Spain: Traveling North of Madrid.” S. Dillon Ripley Center (1100 Jefferson Drive SW) 6:45-8:45 p.m. $30-45

WEDNESDAY: Go on “a culinary tour of Washington, DC” in this benefit for World Central Kitchen. Your ticket to Dine-N-Dash gets you food and drink from two dozen restaurants in the Penn Quarter and on 14th Street. Try your best to visit them all in four hours! A full list of participating restaurants and starting locations can be found here. 6-10 p.m. $125

THURSDAY: Taste five craft spirits from Painted Stave Distilling, “the first standalone craft distillery in Delaware.” sixth & i (600 I Street NW) 7 p.m. $18-23