7:30pm MoviesA 50th Anniversary Tribute to Cahiers...

7:30pm Movies

A 50th Anniversary Tribute to Cahiers du Cinema is a three-weekend-long series celebrating the famed French film magazine’s half-century of publication. Films to be screened include those by Cahiers critics-turned-filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol, as well as by directors the magazine championed, including Robert Bresson, Jean Renoir and Jean-Pierre Melville. (See Screening Room, Page 16.)

A 50th Anniversary Tribute to Cahiers du Cinema, Bing Theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. “Breathless” (A Bout de Souffle) (1959) and “Le Doulos” (1962), Friday, 7:30 p.m.; “The Golden Coach” (Le Carosse d’Or) (1952) and “Day for Night” (La Nuit Americaine) (1973), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Series continues Fridays and Saturdays, through May 11. $5 to $7. (323) 857-6010.

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1pm Theater

The Pacific Playwrights Festival is South Coast Repertory’s annual showcase for new works in progress. One of the five scripts to be given a staged reading comes from a well-known veteran, Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley, whose “Exposed” will be read Friday at 3 p.m. The other four plays come from emerging writers from New York City: “99 Histories,” by Julia Cho, Friday, 1 p.m.; “Intimate Apparel,” by Lynn Nottage, Saturday, 10:30 a.m.; “Truth and Beauty,” by Steven Drukman, Saturday, 2 p.m.; and “Our Boy,” by Julia Jordan, Sunday, 11 a.m.

Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Friday, 1 and 3 p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. $8. (714) 708-5555.

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8pm Radio

When Ira Glass came to UCLA last year to present his show-demonstration-

lecture Lies, Sissies and Fiascoes: Notes on the Making of a New Kind of Radio, it became clear how deeply into public radio some folks are. They turned out by the hundreds just to see Glass in action, creating a radio show, live. Afterward, the creator and host of the critically acclaimed radio program “This American Life” answered questions and spread his gospel: Radio can be more, can be better, can be fun again.

Lies, Sissies and Fiascoes: Notes on the Making of a New Kind of Radio, Campbell Hall, UCSB, Santa Barbara. 8 p.m. $15 to $20. (805) 893-3535.

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8pm Theater

Call it Sunday school on speed. Adam Long and Austin Tichenor of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, the team that brought you “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” have given a Reader’s Digest treatment to the Good Book with the help of co-writer Reed Martin. “The Bible: The Complete Works of God (Abg’d),” presented by the aptly named Ark Theatre Company, is a fast-paced romp through testaments old and new.

“The Bible: The Complete Works of God (Abg’d),” NoHo Actors’ Studio, 5215 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 7 and 10 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m. Also May 4, 11, 18, and 25, 10 p.m.; May 5, 12 and 19, 7 p.m.; May 26, 3 p.m. Ends May 26. $15. (323) 969-1707.

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8pm Family

“Black Butterfly, Jaguar Girl, Pinata Woman and Other Superhero Girls, Like Me,” Luis Alfaro’s vibrant and artful “homegirl poetry jam,” makes a return visit, presented by the Mark Taper Forum’s P.L.A.Y. (Performing for Los Angeles Youth) company. Based on the writings of East L.A. poets Alma Elena Cervantes, Sandra C. Munoz and Marisela Norte, the play features five actresses as a variety of characters who make comical and poignant observations about growing up in East L.A. and holding on to the wonder of dreams.

“Black Butterfly, Jaguar Girl, Pinata Woman and Other Superhero Girls, Like Me,” Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A., Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. $10. (213) 365-3500.

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8pm Pop Music

“Lovesick, Broke & Driftin’”? Sounds like a Hank. In this case, that album title belongs not to country music’s original tragic hero, nor to his hell-raising son, but to Hank Williams III, the maverick heir of one of country music’s most substantial legacies. His first Southland stop is on the sure-to-rock Rumble at the Galaxy, where the masked instrumentalists of Los Straightjackets are joined by singer Deke Dickerson.

Hank Williams III, with Los Straightjackets and Deke Dickerson, others, Galaxy Theatre, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, 8 p.m. $15. (714) 957-0600. Also Saturday with Timothy LaRue, the Roxy, 9009 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 8 p.m. $17.50. (310) 278-9457.

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all day Movies

Val Kilmer plays a saxophonist who witnesses his wife’s murder in “The Salton Sea,” a thriller set in the Southern California desert. Vincent D’Onofrio and Deborah Kara Unger co-star in the revenge tale written by Tony Gayton (“Murder by Numbers”).

“The Salton Sea,” rated R for strong violence, drug use, language and some sexuality, opens Friday in general release.