Plan Ahead

* Music. Impressionistic keyboardist Keiko Matsui plays her jazz-New-Age-world-music hybrid on April 3 at 8 p.m., at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos. $27 to $42. (800) 300-4345.

* Dance. Ancient music and dance from the Japanese Imperial Court will be re-created in the program of Gagaku and Bugaku by the Ikoma Gagaku Music Society of Nara on April 2 at 8 p.m. in the Japan America Theatre, 244 S. San Pedro St., Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. $8 to $22. (213) 680-3700.

* Theater. Pearl Cleage’s “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” set against the Harlem Renaissance of the ‘30s, opens April 3 at the Old Globe Theatre’s Cassius Carter Centre Stage, playing Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 7 p.m.; through May 9. $23 to $39. (619) 239-2255.

* Family. Cirque Eloize returns to Southern California with “Excentricus II” for five performances Wednesday through April 3 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. $17 to $28. (949) 854-4646.