This week, See + Hear + Do focuses on the act of performance, from stage plays to dramatic readings by renowned actors to poetry slams.

ROOM (3/12-3/27, times vary, NY)
Women’s Project, 55 W End Ave # 2, New York, NY 10023
Director Anne Bogart’s revival of Jocelyn Clarke’s one-woman-play, starring Ellen Lauren, is in its last week. Produced by SITI Company at Women’s Project’s Julia Miles Theater, the play has been adapted from the writings of Virginia Woolf to explore themes of memory, reality, truth, and a brilliant creative mind in crisis. Tickets required. $60.

GRACE KRILANOVICH, J.R.D. MIDDLETON, JAMES GREER (3/26@6PM, LA)
Stories, 1716 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Black Clock contributor and “5 Under 35” author of The Orange Eats Creeps Grace Krilanovich kicks off a night of readings, Q&A, and cocktails at Stories in Echo Park. Also reading are J.R.D. Middleton, author of the surreal, lyrical An Dantomine Eerly, and musician, critic, screenwriter and novelist James Greer, author of Artificial Light and The Failure. Free.

SELECTED SHORTS 2011: DELICIOUS FICTIONS (3/26@3PM, 3/26@7PM, & 3/27@3PM, LA)
The Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049
This two-day event takes place at the Getty Center’s Harold M. Williams Auditorium. Performers as commanding and varied as Leonard Nimoy, Rene Auberjouois, Denis O’Hare, and Christina Pickles will read short fiction by Raymond Carver, T.C. Boyle, Dorothy Parker, Juan Martinez, and more. The fabulous Tim Curry will be reading “Ziggurat” by Stephen O’Connor, a Black Clock contributor. Tickets required. $30 (students/seniors $25).

MARC SMITH, DERRICK BROWN, PAM WARD, DERRICK WESTON BROWN, DOUGLAS KEARNEY (3/27@2PM, LA)
Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90291
Marc Smith, performance poet, Godfather of Slam, and author of the sourcebook Take the Mic and Stage a Slam as well as the stage plays Flea Market and A House Party For Henry, leads an arresting group of performance poets including former paratrooper, weatherman, gondolier and magician Derrick Brown (founder, Write Bloody Publishing), Pam Ward (Want Some Get Some, Bad Girls Burn Slow), as well as Cave Canem fellows Derrick Weston Brown and Douglas Kearney (Fear, Some, The Black Automaton). Free.

SEXY SUNDAYS: PROFESSIONALLY SEXY (3/27@5:30PM, CHI)
Sono Wood Fired, 1582 N Clybourn Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
This is a tie-in event to the Steppenwolf Theatre Company‘s production of Sex With Strangers, which runs from Jan 20-May 15. Laura Eason’s play, directed by Jessica Thebus and featuring Sally Murphy and Stephen Louis Grush, is a shrewd look at the digital divide in writing, following the love affair between a struggling novelist in her 30s and a successful sex blogger in his 20s at a Michigan writer’s retreat. Professionally Sexy, between showtimes at the nearby Sono Wood Fired, is a panel of actual sex bloggers, including Jenina Nunez (The Relationship Diva), Clarisse Thorn (Time Out Chicago), and Ana Fernatt (Accidentally Sexy). $5.