8 pm: Comedy

Comedian Norm Macdonald, star of the ABC sitcom “Norm” and former cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” has also branched into movies of late, but his droll personality is best seen on a stage. Macdonald performs at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, a concert originally scheduled last July but postponed (all tickets purchased for the original date will be honored).

* Norm Macdonald, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, 1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Redondo Beach, 8 p.m. $38 and $28. (310) 406-8838.

noon: Air Show

U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, an F-15 Eagle and the F-117 Stealth Fighter will be among the fighter planes that will take to the skies at the 2001 Point Mugu Air Show Friday through Sunday at the Naval Base Ventura County.

2001 Point Mugu Air Show, Naval Base Ventura County, Las Posas Road exit off Highway 101, west to Point Mugu. Friday, noon. Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. Reserved box seats, $15; Platinum Club including five-star buffet, a tented viewing area near the runway, VIP parking and valet shuttle, $175 (advance purchase only and limited availability); Flight Line Club including tented viewing area, VIP parking and catered food and beverage, $55 (limited availability). (805) 989-8786.

noon: Convention

Beam into the Star Trek Grand Slam IX Convention for what is billed as the only event in 2001 featuring the entire surviving original cast of “Star Trek.” Leonard Nimoy (Spock), James Doohan (Scotty) and George Takei (Sulu) will be among the guests appearing Friday. Saturday will feature, among others, William Shatner (Capt. Kirk), Walter Koenig (Chekov) and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura). Sunday’s event will present a salute to the seven-year run of “Star Trek: Voyager.” Kate Mulgrew (Capt. Janeway) and Robert Beltran (Chakotay) will be among the guests. The three-day convention also will include appearances by other actors from the various “Star Trek” television series and films, including Ricardo Montalban and Robert Wise, director of 1979’s “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” There also will be costume and trivia contests, autograph sessions and an exhibit hall with major companies and distributors selling and displaying “Star Trek” and sci-fi collectibles.

* Star Trek Grand Slam IX Convention, Pasadena Center, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena. Friday-Sunday, noon-6 p.m. Advance tickets: $31. At the door: $36; ages 7-12, $16; ages 6 and under, free with parent or guardian. (818) 409-0960.

All evening Movies

The Nuart celebrates “The British New Wave of the Sixties,” with a weeklong festival featuring five seminal films from the swinging ‘60s. The festival kicks off Friday with a five-day engagement of the restored 1963 comedy “Billy Liar,” starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie. Two of director Tony Richardson’s best films, 1961’s “A Taste of Honey” and 1962’s “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” screen Wednesday; the series concludes next Thursday with 1966’s “Georgy Girl” and 1963’s “The L-Shaped Room,” starring Leslie Caron.

* “The British New Wave of the Sixties,” the Nuart, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West L.A., Friday-next Thursday evenings, with daytime screenings on the weekend. $5.50 and $8.50. (310) 478-6379.

7:30 & 9:30 pm: Jazz

Serving as artistic director of the San Francisco Jazz Festival doesn’t seem to have distracted Joshua Redman from his career as one of the finest young tenor saxophonists working today.

* Joshua Redman, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Founders Hall, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. 7:30 p.m. ($42) and 9:30 p.m. ($46). (714) 556-ARTS. Also Saturday.

8 pm: Theater

French playwright Philippe Minyana’s drama “The Warriors,” about three men and the woman they loved in a final confrontation, set against the backdrop of war, has its English-language, American premiere.

* “The Warriors,” .the space, 7070 Santa Monica Blvd., L.A., Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. Ends April 21. $12. (310) 614-2930. //.the space is CQ w/the period in front?//

7:30 pm: Theater

Alejandro Escovedo’s critically acclaimed multimedia theater work, “By the Hand of the Father,” presented by About Productions, soulfully explores the meaning of fatherhood as it chronicles the 20th century journey of Mexican American fathers.

* “By the Hand of the Father,” Getty Center, Harold Williams Auditorium, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Friday at 7:30 p.m., free, (310) 440-7300. Also: Saturday at 7 p.m., Wells Fargo Theatre, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 4700 Heritage Way, L.A., $15, (323) 667-2000, Ext. 243. Sunday at 2 p.m., 24th Street Theatre, 1117 W. 24th St., L.A., $50 (benefit performance and reception), (323) 906-8724.

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Freebie

* Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War movie, “Apocalypse Now,” screens as part of Chapman University’s Cold War Film Series, Argyros Forum, Room 208, One University Drive, Orange, 7 p.m. (714) 744-7694.