Plan Ahead: Next Weekend

* Theater. Molly Ringwald and Brian Kerwin head the cast in Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “How I Learned to Drive,” opening next Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., playing Tuesday to Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Dark March 21. Ends April 4. $29 to $40. (213) 628-2772.

* World Music. Sarodist Ali Akbar Khan and percussionist Zakir Hussain play classical Indian music on Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. at Royce Hall, UCLA. $22 to $35. (310) 825-2101.

* Art. “Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925,” the first major survey to focus on the large-scale court and popular religious paintings, opens Wednesday at the UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. Museum hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum admission: adults, $4.50; seniors and non-UCLA students, $3; UCLA students, $1; visitors 17 and under, free. Ends May 9. (310) 443-7000.