8pm: Theater

Julie Harris and Charles Durning star in D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “The Gin Game,” directed by Charles Nelson Reilly.

* “The Gin Game,” Wilshire Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. Today-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 2 p.m. Ends Sunday. $35-$50. (213) 365-3500.

8pm: Pop Music

There might be a whole lot less shakin’ goin’ on with Jerry Lee Lewis these days--after all, the rock ‘n’ roll legend is 63. But he is a force of nature, so don’t be surprised if his rare Southland appearance yields another memorable example of the subversive spirit that endeared him to a generation of rebels.

* Jerry Lee Lewis, B.B. King’s Blues Club, CityWalk, Universal City, 8 p.m. $40 and $75. (818) 622-5464.

8pm: Music

Former Los Angeles Philharmonic music director Zubin Mehta returns this week to the podium he held from 1962 to 1978. In the first of a two-week visit as guest conductor, Mehta leads the orchestra in Mahler’s massive Ninth Symphony in a no-intermission program.

* Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., 8 p.m. $9-$65. (213) 850-2000. Also Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.

Freebie: “Chinatown” will screen at Chapman University as part of the semester-long film noir series. Argyros Forum, Room 208, 333 N. Glassell St., Orange, 8 p.m. (714) 997-6765.