WEEK IN PREVIEW

MOVIES

“Wild Things,” a tale of revenge, lust and murder played out in the swamps of the Florida Everglades and the yachting enclave of Blue Bay, stars Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Theresa Russell and Robert Wagner. Director John McNaughton’s film opens Friday in general release.

THEATER

“Pacific Overtures,” Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Kabuki-flavored musical about culture shock and the opening of Japan to the West, launches East West Players’ first season at the new David Henry Hwang Theatre in the downtown Union Center for the Arts. It opens Wednesday.

DANCE

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater makes its Music Center debut with two repertory programs running from Thursday through next Sunday in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. If you crave “Revela- tions”--and who doesn’t?--seek no further.

DANCE

Tina Ramirez’s New York-based Ballet Hispanico appears in the Luckman Theatre at Cal State L.A. on Saturday, dancing Ann Reinking’s propulsive “Ritmo y Ruido,” Maria Rovira’s impressionistic “Poema Infinito” and George Faison’s dance drama “Idol Obsession,” about slain pop star Selena.

MUSIC

The CalArts Spring Music Festival takes over the Green Umbrella series Tuesday on the Valencia campus, with composers Chen Yi (two works for Chinese zheng), Robert Ashley, (a piece for solo flute with electronic processing and small orchestra) and Alvin Lucier (a quartet of acoustic resonances).

VIDEO

Talk about hot stuff. “The Full Monty,” the sleeper hit of 1997, has picked up four Oscar nominations, including best film. The British comedy about a group of unemployed blokes who decide to earn money by becoming male strippers is as poignant as it is funny. The film arrives on video on Tuesday.

ART

Nan Goldin’s signature photographs recording New York’s gritty bohemian society of the 1970s and ‘80s, as well as her more subtle and introspective new work, will be included in “Nan Goldin: Reflections Through a Golden Eye, 1975-1998,” opening Saturday at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills.

POP MUSIC

Headlined by the Offspring and Wyclef Jean & the Refugee All-Stars, today’s fifth annual Board AID concert at Bear Mountain Ski Resort in Big Bear raises funds for AIDS awareness and prevention. Also on the bill for the all-day show: the Specials, Steel Pulse, Royal Crown Revue and One Hit Wonder.

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Next Sunday: Calendar goes to the Oscars, previewing the following night’s big show with features, a little history and that all-important ballot.