7:30 pm / Theater

Beau Bridges, Laurie Metcalf and Michael Learned star in the premiere of “Looking for Normal,” Jane Anderson’s play about a small Ohio town changed by one man’s life-altering decision.

* “Looking for Normal,” Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Ave., Westwood, today, 7:30 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays through Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.; Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 4 and 8:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Ends May 6. $21 to $43. (310) 208-5454 or (213) 365-3500.

8 pm / Music

Richard Strauss’ “Don Quixote” is a colorful tone poem in which a solo cello depicts Cervantes’ Knight of the Rueful Countenance in his varied ventures and encounters. A solo viola portrays Sancho Panza. Pacific Symphony principal cellist Timothy Landauer and principal violist Robert Becker play the work on a program that also will include Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto Andaluz,” with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s “Hot Buttered Rumba” and Emmanuel Chabrier’s “Espana.” Carl St. Clair conducts.

* Pacific Symphony, Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. 8 p.m. $19 to $52. (714) 556-2787.

8:30 pm / Theater

In her latest multimedia solo play, “With Darkness Behind Us, Daylight Has Come,” Jude Narita explores how the internment camps affected three generations of Japanese American women: one struggling to build a family business, another who believes in building community, an angry teenager, and others. Narita incorporates archival footage and photos from the 1940s, taken at the Heart Mountain internment camp.

* “With Darkness Behind Us, Daylight Has Come,” Highways, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica, today through Saturday and April 20-21, 8:30 p.m.; April 22, 3 p.m. Ends April 22. $12. (310) 315-1459.

8 & 11 pm / Pop Music

His colleague and contemporary Silvio Rodriguez is the one known as the Bob Dylan of Cuba. But Pablo Milanes could probably qualify too, for his pioneering role in the late ‘60s nueva trova movement of socially and politically themed music and for the sophisticated love songs that came later in his career. The Cuban icon makes his Los Angeles debut at the Conga Room.

* Pablo Milanes at the Conga Room, 5364 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 8 and 11 p.m. $35 to $95. (323) 938-1696.

8 pm / Pop Music

Modest Modesto dwellers Grandaddy became reluctant stars of a sort last year when the band’s major-label debut album, “The Sophtware Slump,” began drawing lavish critical praise and a burgeoning cult audience. It was a little hard on leader Jason Lytle, an admitted recluse, but he’s out there on the road, bringing Grandaddy’s skeptical meditations on modern society to clubs such as the Troubadour.

* Grandaddy today and Friday at the Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, 8 p.m. Sold out. (310) 276-6168.

FREEBIE: From Pennsylvania, the Grove City College Touring Choir, conducted by Douglas Browne, sings in St. James Presbyterian Church, 19414 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana, at 7:30 p.m. Its program lists music by Bach, Brahms, Holst and Rene Clausen. (818) 345-2057.