8 pm: Music

The prodigious, Japanese-born violinist Midori, still well under 30 years old, continues to add to her considerable achievement. This week, she returns in another challenging solo recital, assisted by her sterling pianistic partner, Robert McDonald, in a program of sonatas by Beethoven, Faure and Brahms, plus Szymanowski’s “Myths.”

* Midori in recital at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown. $15-$60. (213) 850-2000.

8 pm: Theater

The Flying Karamazov Brothers, comic actors and jugglers extraordinaire, open at the Mark Taper Forum in their adaptation of John Murray and Allen Boretz’s “Room Service,” a script first made famous in the 1938 movie with those other brothers, Marx by name.

* “Room Service,” Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2:30 p.m., through Dec. 21. $29-$37. (213) 628-2772.

8 pm: Theater

Lucie Arnaz and Stephanie Zimbalist head the cast in “Wonderful Town,” a semi-staged performance of the Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green musical presented by Reprise! Broadway’s Best in Concert series at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse.

* “Wonderful Town,” UCLA Freud Playhouse, Westwood, tonight-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 2 p.m. $35-$40. (310) 825-2101.