Plan Ahead: Next Weekend

* Theater. “James Joyce’s The Dead,” the musical by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey, opens in its West Coast premiere Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. It will play Tuesdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.; with additional performances July 30, Aug. 6, 13, 27 at 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 10, 17, 31 at 2 p.m. Dark Aug. 12. Ends Sept. 3. $25 to $70. (213) 628-2772.

* Films. More than 70 feature films, documentaries and shorts from the United States, Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean will screen at the fourth annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, July 21-30 at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. $7. (323) 469-9066.

* Films. “Stairway to Heaven” (1946), aka “A Matter of Life and Death,” newly restored and preserved by the Academy Film Archive and Sony Pictures Entertainment in collaboration with the British Film Institute’s National Film, Television and Video Archive, screens July 21 at 8 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. (310) 247-3600.

* Dance. The annual Dance Kaleidoscope series moves to the Japan America Theatre in Little Tokyo on July 22 at 8 p.m. for the West Coast premiere of the dance-and-talk extravaganza “The Horse’s Mouth Greets the New Millennium.” 244 S. San Pedro St., downtown Los Angeles. $12 (students, seniors) to $18. (323) 343-MOVE.