8pm: Theater

Danny Glover and Nobu McCarthy headline in East West Players’ premiere of Philip Kan Gotanda’s drama “Yohen,” about an elderly African American-Japanese American couple’s marital struggles. A Robey Theatre Company co-production.

* “Yohen,” David Henry Hwang Theater, Union Center for the Arts, 120 N. Judge Aiso St., Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m., except 8 p.m. only this Sunday. (Danny Glover’s role will be played by Ben Guillory Jan. 28 and 29.) Ends Feb. 5. $20 to $27. (800) 233-3123.

9pm: Pop Music

“There’s a destination a little up the road from the habitations and the towns we know. . . .” Now you can take the lyric by Beck from “Where It’s At” and apply it to Las Vegas, where the rock/folk/hip-hop alchemist will play the only full-blown concert he has scheduled in the wake of his latest album. So pop “Odelay” and “Mutations” into the tape deck and hit Interstate 15--but hit a ticket broker first. It’s sold out.

* Beck, Tiffany Theatre, Tropicana Resort Hotel, 3801 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. Sold out. (702) 739-2222.

8pm: Theater

Tony Award winner Cherry Jones plays a search-and-rescue pilot whose mission to find an abducted young girl becomes an unexpected odyssey of self-discovery in Ellen McLaughlin’s drama, “Tongue of a Bird.” Opens tonight at the Mark Taper Forum.

* “Tongue of a Bird,” Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Through Feb. 7. $29 to $40. (213) 628-2772.

FREEBIE: Architect Jay Griffith discusses landscape designs at the Gallery Theatre, Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. (323) 913-4157.