Lisa D’Amour’s Pulitzer finalist play Detroit isn’t actually set in Detroit, but its vision of a crumbling suburbia does seem comparable to a city where homes are sold for close to the cost of a few six-packs. One couple, Mary and Ben, invites their new, recovering junkie neighbors, Sharon and Kenny, over for a cookout, and anxiety and booze make things as precarious as their membership in the middle class. Ben’s just lost his job as a bank loan officer, Sharon and Kenny’s house lacks furniture, and like the suburban experience, the whole show teeters on the verge of hilarious collapse. Read more >>> Pay-what-you-can preview tonight at 8 p.m. at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D St. NW. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net. (Will Sommer)

EAT THIS

Today through Sept. 21, all California Tortilla locations will give customers a coupon for a free taco if they donate at least $1 toward Share Our Strength’s annual Dine Out for No Kid Hungry campaign. The free taco coupon can be redeemed from Sept. 22 to Sept. 20. The restaurant chain hopes to raise $25,000 during the two-week campaign and will also match the dollar amount of the restaurant that raises the most money. California Tortilla, multiple locations, californiatortilla.com. (Jessica Sidman)

OH AND ALSO

’80s rock group Blondie is back and touring in support of their ninth studio album. Late ’70s punk group X opens the show at 9:30 Club. 7 p.m. at 815 V St. NW. $43.

Canadian performance group Majical Cloudz plays DC9 tonight with fellow Canadians Moon King and local psychedelic pop group Paperhaus. 8:30 p.m. at 1940 9th St. NW. $12.

The Goethe-Institut kicks off its series of works by director Margarethe von Trotta tonight with a screening of Marianne and Juliane, a film about sisters growing up in Germany in the decades following World War II. 6:30 p.m. at 812 7th St. NW. $4–$7.

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