WEEK IN PREVIEW

MOVIES

“Halloween: H20” reunites director John Carpenter and actress Jamie Lee Curtis (right, with Adam Arkin) for more thrills and chills 20 years after their landmark “Halloween” gave a new meaning to “trick or treat.” Michelle Williams is also featured in this sequel, which opens in general release on Wednesday.

THEATER

The Los Angeles premiere of “A Table for a King,” by internationally acclaimed playwright Martin Sherman (“Bent”), opens Thursday at Highways in Santa Monica. Set on a Greek island in the 1960s, the seriocomic play, starring Susan Tyrrell, centers on a young poet’s gay coming-of-age.

MUSIC

Grammy Award-winning bass-baritone Bryn Terfel and tenor Neil Shicoff pair up for a night at the Hollywood Bowl with John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Operatic arias and duets, and music from Broadway make up the program, highlighted by excerpts from “Aida” and

“Cavalleria Rusticana.”

DANCE

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Jazz Tap Ensemble returns to the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on Friday, dancing to live music. Current members include Carol Christiansen, Sam Weber, Channing Cook Holmes, Becky Twitchell and founder-artistic director Lynn Dally.

ART

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions presents its “Annuale 1998,” an exhibition of new work by promising local artists selected by a notable out-of-town curator. This year’s group exhibition, which opens Friday at LACE, will be curated by critic and writer Franklin Sirmans.

POP MUSIC

Pretenders fans can stop all their sobbing. Chrissie Hynde, above, is no longer hobbled by a knee injury, and is back out on the road with her band. The English rockers open for the reunited B-52’s tonight at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre and Tuesday and Wednesday at the Universal Amphitheatre.

JAZZ

Lexus Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl’s annual “A Night in Brazil” this Wednesday features a performance by songwriter Jorge Ben Jor. Also, there will be a tribute to the late Antonio Carlos Jobim organized by Oscar Castro-Neves and starring Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, Eliane Elias and Paul Winter.

VIDEO

The winning comedy, “The Wedding Singer,” is Adam Sandler’s watershed film. Sandler is utterly charming as a goofy, sweet wedding singer, circa 1985, who discovers that the love (Drew Barrymore) of his life is engaged to another man. The hit movie bounces into video stores on Tuesday.

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Early Warning: British comic Eddie Izzard follows a three-month off-Broadway run with his West Coast debut Sept. 10-27 at West Hollywood’s Tiffany Theater.