8 pm: Music

Tony Award winner and Grammy nominee Melba Moore will be joined by half a dozen Broadway actors and a pair of grand pianos as she celebrates the music of the great Cole Porter in the opening concert of the Orange County Performing Arts Center Broadway Revue series.

* The Cole Porter Songbook With Melba Moore, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. $42. Also Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday 2 p.m. (714) 556-2787.

7:30 pm: Theater

“The Mark Taper Forum New Work Festival 1997-98,” a series of readings of new plays and workshops, is the inaugural production at Garry Marshall’s new Falcon Theatre in Burbank. The festival kicks off with “An Evening of L.A. Running Wild” with Marga Gomez, Sandra Tsing Loh, Diane Rodriguez, John Fleck and others. It continues with readings of “Speak Only of Cats” by Severo Perez, Friday at 8 p.m.; Caridad Svich’s “Pensacola,” Saturday at 4 p.m.; “Harry Thaw Hates Everybody” by Laural Meade, Saturday at 7 p.m.; “Lump Sum” by Eric Bagan, Sunday at 4 p.m.; and Russell Davis’ “The Traveling Cinderella’s Dead Mother Show,” Sunday at 7 p.m.

* “The Mark Taper Forum New Work Festival 1997-98,” Falcon Theatre, 4252 Riverside Drive, Burbank, tonight, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 4 and 7 p.m. Call for other events. Ends Dec. 20. Free first-come, first-served tickets one hour before show time. (213) 972-7389.

8 pm: Theater

The international percussion theater spectacular “Stomp” makes a Southland stop at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, with its high-energy troupe that finds rhythm in everything from push brooms to Zippo lighters.

* “Stomp,” Terrace Theatre, 300 E. Green St., Long Beach, tonight through Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m. $12 to $42.50. (213) 365-3500, (714) 740-2000.