Tues. Nov. 14

"Dr. Strangelove" showed us how much fun nuclear war could be. Well, not fun, really, but funny. Not funny, ha-ha. Oh, you know what I mean. It enabled us to laugh at our deepest fears. I, for one, was pretty certain the end of the world would come during the Reagan era, and was darn surprised to find myself (and many others) kicking and breathing at the end of it. Good thing North Korea's entered the game! (However bumbling.) We've got that nuclear war spectre lurking again, which makes John Breitbart's "The Zero Club," written in 1985, pertinent all over again. It's being kicked up again by tireless composer/musician/performer Deborah Henson-Conant and company in what's being called a conccert-style writer's presentation, narrated by the composer and featuring members of the original cast. Henson-Conant first transformed Breitbart's guerilla theater idea into a musical-comedy with a message. It's the story of Molly and Ned, a nuclear arms entrepreneur, the latter of whom has built a luxury fallout shelter where the two will hide with pairs of the domestic pets and become a post-nuke Adam and Eve. That's all I'll give away. Rest assured, serious fun happens at the bash thrown by the Zero Club - the anti-nuke group. It's at the Regent Theatre Tues. Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $16.

7 Medford St., Arlington, 781-646-4849 RegentTheatre.com