8pm: Theater

Molly Ringwald and Brian Kerwin headline in Paula Vogel’s 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “How I Learned to Drive,” a coming-of-age tale that travels back and forth between 1965 and 1979 in its portrayal of the complex, unconventional relationship between a girl and her uncle.

* “How I Learned to Drive,” Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 2:30 p.m.; dark March 21. $29 to $40. (213) 628-2772.

8pm: Jazz

Pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, among the best individual musicians on the planet, have been refashioning standards and playing the pianist’s original music together for more than 15 years. This rare appearance, the trio’s only West Coast performance this year and one of only three around the globe, promises to be the jazz event of the year.

* Keith Jarrett Trio, Royce Hall, UCLA. $25 to $40; UCLA students, $13. (310) 825-2101.

8pm: Music

At 18, the prodigious American violinist Hilary Hahn makes her debut appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, playing Brahms’ Violin Concerto with conductor Leonid Grin and the orchestra through Sunday. Grin, filling in for an ailing Franz Welser-Most, leads Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 to close the program.

* The L.A. Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., 8 p.m. $11 to $65. (323) 850-2000. Also, Friday at 1:30 p.m., Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

Freebie: Elmore Leonard reads and signs “Be Cool,” his “Get Shorty” follow-up, Vroman’s Bookstore, 690 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, 7 p.m. (626) 449-5320.