PLAN AHEAD: NEXT WEEKEND

* American Cinematheque presents its popular “Third Annual Festival of Film Noir,” May 11-27 at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. $6-$8. (323) 466-3456.

* The Paris Opera Ballet dances Rudolf Nureyev’s staging of the full-length “La Bayadere” on Tuesday, Wednesday and May 11-13 in the Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. $20 to $85 (714) 556-ARTS.

* Leonard Crofoot performs the solo dance drama “Nijinsky Speaks” on May 11 at the Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood. Free, but reservations are necessary and parking is $5. (310) 440-7300.

* “Side Man,” Warren Leight’s Tony Award-winning play about one man’s obsession with jazz, plays May 13-June 17 at Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena. $15-$42.50. (626) 356-PLAY.

* “The Threepenny Opera,” the dark Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht musical, plays next Thursday through June 10 at Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles. $25; gala opening, $50. (323) 851-7977.

* “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” the musical romp by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts, plays May 11-June 10 at the San Diego Repertory Theatre, Lyceum Stage, 79 Horton Plaza, San Diego. $22-$38. (619) 544-1000.