WEEKEND

* DANCE: American Ballet Theatre will dance five performances of Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet” this weekend at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa. Susan Jaffe and Vladimir Malakhov will dance the title roles tonight at 8 and Sunday at 2 p.m. Paloma Herrera and Keith Roberts will take over Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Julie Kent and Jose Manuel Carreno will dance Saturday at 8 p.m. . . . Linda Sohl-Donnell’s Rhapsody in Taps troupe will dance Saturday night at 8 in the Robert B. Moore Theatre at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. Works will include Sohl-Donnell’s Prelude and Fugue, Fred Strickler’s solo to Horace Silver’s “Nica’s Dream” and a new work by Bob Carroll. . . . Modern dancer Peggy Baker joins pianist Andrew Burashko in a contemporary program Sunday afternoon at the Luckman complex, Cal State L.A.

* POP MUSIC: Former ‘Til Tuesday singer Aimee Mann shows a good ear for melody on her latest album, “I’m With Stupid,” which is steeped in classic ‘60s pop. She appears tonight at the Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana. . . . k.d. lang sings at the Universal Amphitheatre tonight and Saturday, performing songs from her latest album, “All You Can Eat.”. . . The Geraldine Fibbers headline the Troubadour in West Hollywood tonight (we’re not fibbing).

* JAZZ: Pianist Cecilia Coleman’s quintet, with trumpeter Steve Huffsteter and saxophonist Andy Suzuki, plays from its fine new Resurgent Records release, “Home,” Saturday at the UC Irvine Village Theatre. . . . Big bands are back! The Jazz Bakery in Culver City hosts the orchestra of composer-arranger Bill Holman tonight, and that of drummer Louie Bellson on Saturday night. . . . The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra plays the Ruth B. Shannon Center at Whittier College on Sunday.

* MOVIES: In the nervy, edgy and darkly funny “Mr. Wrong,” “Cathy” meets “The Twilight Zone” when a 31-year-old woman (Ellen DeGeneres) hears something ticking--it turns out to be her boyfriend (Bill Pullman). . . . “Muppet Treasure Island” is an adroit mix of Muppets and humans in yet another retelling of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale, a wonderful picture for children and a work of considerable artistry and craftsmanship that ought to please many adults as well. . . . You can still catch Marleen Gorris’ “Antonia’s Line” (selected theaters), an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film from the Netherlands. It is a beguiling tale, tender and funny, of solidarity between men and women of different generations. . . . Malcolm McDowell will appear tonight at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles after the 7:30 p.m. screening of “A Clockwork Orange” and before the 10 p.m. screening of “If. . . .” . . . Terry Sanders’ Oscar-nominated documentary “Never Give Up, the 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper,” about a Holocaust survivor who has brought professional orchestras to urban children for 50 years, screens Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance.

* FAMILY: Actress Lupe Ontiveros, who played Irene in “Mi Familia/My Family,” reads the Spanish-language version of Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat” on Saturday at 2:15 at the Laguna Art Museum’s South Coast Plaza Satellite in Costa Mesa. . . . Children’s music star Linda Arnold (“Sing Along Stew”) will perform a benefit family concert at Adat Ari El Synagogue in North Hollywood on Sunday at 11 a.m. . . . Kindergarten teacher and award-winning recording artist Jim Rule will offer songs from his “Share the World” album in a mini-concert for families with children ages 3 to 10, Saturday at 11 a.m. at Pages Books in Tarzana.

* ART: Artist Kim Dingle takes an eccentric look at the collection of well-known L.A. art collectors Eileen and Peter Norton in “A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle” at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. The most extensive staging of the Norton Collection to date receives an ironic twist as contemporary works by David Hammons, Robert Gober, Lari Pittman and others are shown amid unpacked crates and plastic-wrapped paintings. Viewers can enjoy art from a new perspective as Dingle presents the collection as if it were still in storage, through Sunday.

* MUSIC: Under the auspices of the UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, piano virtuoso Andre Watts plays a mixed recital in Veterans Wadsworth Theater in Westood, tonight at 8. . . . The Southwest Chamber Music Society gives a fascinating program of works by William Grant Still, “Lucky” Mosko, Mel Powell, William Kraft and Schoenberg, Saturday night at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church and Sunday afternoon at 4 at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. . . . Jeannine Wagner leads the Wagner Ensemble in music by Copland, Poulenc and Palestrina, among others, Sunday at 4 p.m. in Westwood United Methodist Church.

* THEATER: You may remember Maxwell Anderson’s 1957 chiller “Bad Seed,” about an 8-year-old murderer, but you’ve never seen it quite like this: In Theatre 911’s hilarious spoof, the kid killer is played by a 6-foot-tall guy with a 5 o’clock shadow in pigtails and pinafore. At St. Genesius Theatre in West Hollywood through Sunday. . . . In “Yenta Unplugged!,” solo artist Annie Korzen serves up a mix of cabaret and comedy in her thought-provoking chronicling of coming-of-age experiences of Jewish women, from the Bronx to Beverly Hills. At West Coast Ensemble’s La Brea Theatre in Los Angeles.