WEEK IN PREVIEW

MOVIES

Brad Anderson’s “Next Stop, Wonderland,” a humorous take on romance, friendship and destiny, stars Hope Davis as a Boston night-shift nurse who has been dumped by her activist boyfriend (Philip Seymour Hoffman). The film opens Friday at selected theaters.

MOVIES

Director Randa Haines’ sexy new movie “Dance With Me” stars Vanessa L. Williams as Ruby, a Houston dance instructor, and pop sensation Chayenne as Rafael, a Cuban emigre who teaches Ruby a few new Latin dance moves he happens to know. The film opens Friday in general release.

THEATER

It’s three decades since the Age of Aquarius dawned in the groundbreaking rock musical “Hair,” a symbol of a generation’s cultural revolution. Candlefish Theatre Company is paying tribute to the original “American Tribal Love Rock Musical” with a 30th-anniversary revival, opening Friday.

VIDEO

Robert Duvall is the whole show in the drama “The Apostle.” The veteran actor stars in, wrote, directed and financed the acclaimed study of the redemption of a Pentecostal preacher. The drama, for which Duvall received an Oscar nomination for best actor, arrives Tuesday on video shelves.

POP MUSIC

Continuing to push her 1997 album “The Velvet Rope,” Janet Jackson is touring for the first time in four years. She brings her high-energy live show to Southern California for performances Thursday night at the Great Western Forum and next Sunday at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim.

DANCE

The Lula Washington Dance Theatre will perform the premiere of choreographer Washington’s “Mahal Dances,” along with works by Donald McKayle, Jho Jenkins, Stefan Wenta, Koffi Koko and Tamica Washington, on Saturday night at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood.

MUSIC

Josh Bell, much hyped as an All-American kid who just happens to play the violin, has turned 30 and made his first movie--providing the musicianship and body-double work in the upcoming “Red Violin.” He performs Sibelius’ Violin Concerto on Tuesday with the L.A. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.

ART

An exhibition of 40 photographs of the Philippines and the United States explores the complex economic, political and cultural relationship between the two countries in “Confrontations, Crossings, and Convergence,” opening Wednesday at UCLA’s Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

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Early Warning: L.A. Opera opens its 1998-99 season Sept. 8 with “Carmen,” starring Placido Domingo and, in her stage debut in the title role, Jennifer Larmore.