7 pm: Festival

Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival presents Festival 2000, featuring poetry, dance, theater, storytelling, stand-up, performance art and song. Danny Glover and Hattie Winston are slated to host an opening-night gala awards ceremony.

* Festival 2000, 24th Street Theatre, 1117 W. 24th St. Today: awards ceremony, 7 p.m.; performance (“Resiliency”), 8 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m.: “Fingerprints.” Saturday, 3 p.m.: “Taking Flight.” Saturday, 8 p.m.: “Poetic Voices, Dancing Feet.” Sunday, 3 p.m.: “Encore.” Sunday, 7 p.m.: “Songbirds.” $15; opening-night gala, $25; festival series, $60. (818) 752-2225.

8 pm: Theater

If you missed it before, you can catch it now: The gracefully staged, satisfying revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” with a solid cast led by Richard Chamberlain, is reopening at a new venue.

* “The Sound of Music,” Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m. Ends April 2. $18 to $52. (714) 556-ARTS.

8 pm: Pop Music

Head to Pomona to catch GusGus in its only Southland show-- either that or Iceland. That’s the home of this multimedia collective, a sort of dance-minded successor to the experimental-pop tradition of fellow Reykjavikians the Sugarcubes.

* GusGus, with Supreme Beings of Leisure, at the Glass House, 200 W. 2nd St., Pomona, 8 p.m. $16.50 in advance, $18 at the door. (909) 469-5800.

8 pm: Comedy

The faculty for the “College of Comedy With Alan King” includes some of the top names in the fields of satire, stand-up, sketch and sitcoms. King hosted other funny folk on Tuesday, but tonight’s lineup includes Brad Garrett (“Everybody Loves Raymond”), Kathy Najimy (“Veronica’s Closet” and “The Kathy and Mo Show”), Caroline Rhea (stand-up artist and co-star of “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch”), legendary comedian George Wallace, and Carl Reiner (enough said). Gosh, if we could only get college credit at Caltech for attending.

* “College of Comedy With Alan King,” at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium, 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, 8 p.m. $5. (888) 222-5832.

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FREEBIE: The bands World Tribe and Dragline play a free show at the Hard Rock Cafe, 8600 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. 9 p.m. (310) 276-7605.