8 pm: Dance

The locally based American Repertory Dance Company continues to honor “The Indomitable Spirit of Woman” with exciting programs of modern dance revivals and reconstructions. This week, however, the pre- and proto-feminist choreographies will not only include the company’s acclaimed stagings of works by Helen Tamiris, Mary Wigman, Agnes de Mille, Sophie Maslow, Lester Horton, Eve Gentry and Valerie Bettis, but two new works as well. Anna Sokolow’s “Preludes” features Nancy Colahan in a solo commissioned by Tonia Shimin 20 years ago, while Bella Lewitzky’s “On the Brink of Time” assigns John Pennington to the role originally danced by Lewitzky herself in 1969.

* American Repertory Dance Company, Marsee Auditorium, El Camino College, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance, 8 p.m. $22. (310) 329-5345.

1:30 pm: TV Museum

Here’s the kind of multimedia-mingling-melding thing that can be tough to get your brain around. A museum is having a TV and radio retrospective about a musical theater composer. Whoa. But that’s exactly what “Something for Everyone: Sondheim Tonight!” is. Sondheim, who just turned 70, is getting the full package from the Museum of Television & Radio: TV productions of his theater pieces, an early episode of “Topper” he wrote, TV interviews, documentaries, seminars . . . and Dame Judi Dench singing “Send in the Clowns.” Surely that is something for everyone.

* “Something for Everyone: Sondheim Tonight!” at the Museum of Television & Radio, 465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills. Daily screenings at 1:30 p.m. Programs change weekly. Ends July 2. Evening screenings Thursdays at 6 p.m. Open Wednesdays-Sundays, noon-5 p.m. Thursdays, noon-9 p.m. Free. Suggested contribution $3 to $6. (310) 786-1000.

8:30 pm: Comedy

It’s been a while since Norm Macdonald was solely a stand-up comedian, but the star of the ABC sitcom “Norm” and former cast member on “Saturday Night Live” returns to the stage as a comic when he performs at the Sun Theater in Anaheim. Look for the same biting, deadpan wit he used to showcase as the anchor on SNL’s “Weekend Update.”

* Norm Macdonald, the Sun Theater, 2200 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.). Tickets: $25 and $35. (714) 712-2750.

7:30 & 9:30 pm: Jazz

Paris-based soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and trombonist Roswell Rudd first played together in Dixieland bands back in the ‘50s but soon became leading improvisationists and free-music champions. Their explorations frequently centered on the music of pianist Thelonious Monk. The two have once again joined forces on a new Verve recording, “Monk’s Dream,” and will make a rare Los Angeles appearance together inside the guitar-covered walls of this extremely intimate concert space.

* Steve Lacy-Roswell Rudd Quartet, McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. $17.50. (310) 828-4403.

11 am: Art

Seemingly playful images of children, dogs, science-fiction characters and ghosts mix childlike innocence with adult-like knowing in “Yoshitomo Nara: Lullaby Supermarket” opening Friday at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Using cartoons and other media as inspiration, the Japanese sculptor addresses issues of mass consumerism and industrialization with a subtle touch in this survey of wall reliefs, works on paper, paintings, large-scale sculptures and a commissioned wall painting.

* “Yoshitomo Nara: Lullaby Supermarket,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2525 Michigan Ave., G-1, Santa Monica. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Ends May 27. Adults, $3; students and seniors, $2. (310) 586-6488.

8 pm: Theater

Open Fist Theatre Company presents the world premiere of “How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients,” Matei Visniec’s dark comedy set in a Moscow hospital in 1953, under the direction of Florinel Fatulescu, with English translations by Jeremy Lawrence and Catherine Popesco.

* “How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients,” Open Fist Theatre, 1625 N. La Brea Ave. Regular schedule: Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Also March 31, April 28, 8 p.m.; April 2 and 16, 3 p.m. Ends April 28. $15; opening-night gala, $20. (323) 882-6912.

8 pm: Theater

Don’t rain on her parade: The Cabrillo Music Theatre’s season continues with “Funny Girl,” the romantic musical classic about Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice and her romance with a gambler. With Stephanie Block and Matt Ashford.

* “Funny Girl,” Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m. Ends April 2. $14 to $32. (805) 583-8700, (213) 480-3232, (714) 740-2000.

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FREEBIE: The offbeat puppet theater production “A Dream Is a Sandwich That Your Brain Eats” is the culmination of a student program from 20 participants ages 7 to 17, Margo Albert Theatre, Plaza de la Raza, 3540 Mission Road, Los Angeles. Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m. Reservations recommended. (323) 223-2475.