all day: Movies

In “Scream 3,” the last installment in the popular horror-spoof series from Miramax’s Dimension Films, our heroine, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), moves to Hollywood and finds herself reunited with busybody tabloid reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox Arquette) and hapless investigator Dewey Riley (David Arquette) when the director and star of the movie “Stab 3” are brutally murdered. Patrick Dempsey, Parker Posey, Jenny McCarthy and Matt Keeslar join the cast.

* “Scream 3,” which is rated R for strong horror violence and language, opens Friday in general release.

7:30 pm: Movies

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting “The Late, Great Sylvia Sidney,” a two-day retrospective of the doe-eyed, dark-haired actress who made her mark in Depression-era film, often playing demure, good-hearted waifs. The Friday double bill features Rouben Mamoulian’s 1931 gangster film, “City Streets,” and the William Wyler-directed, Lillian Hellman-written social drama “Dead End” (1931). Saturday’s double feature is Alfred Hitchcock’s “Sabotage” (1936), which was based on Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent,” and Fritz Lang’s outlaw lovers-on-the-run tale, “You Only Live Once” (1937). Sidney died last year at the age of 88.

* “The Late, Great Sylvia Sidney,” LACMA, Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. Friday: “City Streets” and “Dead End,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday: “Sabotage” and “You Only Live Once,” 7:30 p.m. $5 to $7. (323) 857-6010.

8 pm: Music/Dance

Flamenco diva Lola Greco and dancers from National Ballet of Spain join the L.A. Philharmonic for a night of Spanish music and dance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion--an event already causing a major buzz. Reviewing it in Oregon 10 days ago for Dance Insider magazine, Martha Ullman West wrote that “in the La Maja solo from Granados’s ‘Goyescas,’ arms twining above her head, heels subtly but firmly tapping the floor, Greco managed to look like the naked Maja, even though she was covered from head to toe in white lace ruffles.” Guitarist Jorge Caballero and mezzo Milagro Vargas are also featured.

* Music by Gimenez, Rodrigo, Falla and Granados, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, 8 p.m. $15 to $70. (213) 365-3500.

8 pm: Dance

Looking for a three-hanky ballet? Try “Onegin,” with music by Tchaikovsky (always perfect for a good cry), plus a fatal duel, two heartbreaking rejections, and a magic-mirror scene in which the elusive beloved seems to be there but really isn’t, just like the wilis and sylphides of yore. But don’t think this three-act story ballet dates to the 19th century. Yes, Pushkin wrote the verse novel on which it’s based back in the 1820s, but John Cranko choreographed it in 1965 for the Stuttgart Ballet, the company that will perform it, with multiple casts, all weekend long at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Guest Susan Jaffe of American Ballet Theatre dances the female lead on Saturday night. Review of the Stuttgart’s mixed program on Page XX.

* “Onegin,” Stuttgart Ballet, Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. $12 to $68. (714) 556-2787.

8 pm: Dance

Whenever contemporary dance grows too sedate, high-minded or focused on music visualization and other academic strategies, Canadian choreographer Edouard Lock appears to give it a shot of La La La. Specifically, Lock’s company, La La La Human Steps, restores hell-for-leather physicality to dance--and, boy, do we need it now. His new full-evening work is called “Salt,” depicts a life cycle, and features nine dancers, three musicians, an accompanying film, a labyrinthine grid--but not, alas, Louise Lecavalier, the star and muse of Lock’s earlier pieces, who has retired. A real loss, although Berlin critics called “Salt” “breathtaking” and “sheer brilliance” when it toured last summer.

* La La La Human Steps, Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Blvd. (at Western Avenue), Los Angeles. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. $11 (students) to $42.50. (310) 825-2101.

8:30 pm: Performance Art

In the premiere of his provocative new comic work, “Glory Box,” performance artist Tim Miller explores gay marriage and immigration rights for bi-national couples.

* “Glory Box,” Highways, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica. Fridays-Saturdays, 8:30 p.m. Through Feb. 12. $15; opening-night benefit for Highways and the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, $25. (310) 315-1459. (Also Feb. 14 at UC Santa Barbara, Campbell Hall, 8 p.m. $8. [805] 893-3535.)

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FREEBIES

The Taylor String Quartet performs Beethoven and Prokofiev at Recital Hall, L.A. Harbor College, 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington, 8 p.m. (310) 372-4222.

Pianist Milcho Leviev, bassist Pat Senatore and drummer Kevin Tullius combine as Trio Lesentu at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd.,5:30-8:30 p.m. (323) 857-6000.