Three-day forecast

MUSIC

Bach from a specialist

Stuttgart, Germany-based Helmuth Rilling, one of the leading authorities on Baroque music, comes to the Southland to guest conduct the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in a “Bach Fest.” The program will include three cantatas -- “God so loved the world,” “Lord enter not into judgment” and “Sleepers, Awake” -- and the Concerto in C minor for Violin and Oboe.

Los Angeles Master Chorale and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. Saturday, 8 p.m. $25 to $75. Also: Royce Hall, UCLA, Westwood. Sunday, 7 p.m. $10 to $68. (213) 622-7001, Ext. 215.

THEATER

Talk about Freud, Jung

In “The Talking Cure,” Christopher Hampton explores the short-lived collaboration between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and their relationship with a beautiful, mysterious female patient during the early years of psychoanalysis. Gordon Davidson directs this American premiere. Among the cast: Abby Brammell, Sue Cremin, Henry Lubatti, Sam Robards and Harris Yulin.

“The Talking Cure,” Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., L.A. Opens Thursday. Runs Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays, 2:30 p.m.; ends May 23. $33-$47. (213) 628-2772.

MUSEUMS

Party time at Hammer

The UCLA Hammer Museum swings open its doors for a very special evening celebration of its current exhibition, the expansive photographic display “The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982,” and installations by artists George Raggett and Pae White. The Hammer Bash late-night party offers extended hours -- plenty of time to view works from such photographers as Cindy Sherman, Peter Fishchli, David Weiss, William Wegman, Joseph Beuys and others. DJ Papa Byrd provides music; cocktails are available and prizes will be given out throughout the evening.

The Hammer Bash , UCLA Hammer Museum, 10889 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. Friday, 6:30 p.m.-midnight. Free. (310) 443-7000

CULTURE

Steppe lively

The Russians are coming -- again. The Russian Nights Festival returns for its second year with a weeklong program of art, music, theater and film. The centerpiece is an ambitious film series is a broad survey of Russian cinema, from 1918’s “A Young Lady and a Hooligan” to the brand-new submarine drama “72 Meters.” Other events include a contemporary art and photo exhibition; a concert by guitarist Dimitri Illarionov and cellist Boris Andrianov; folk music by Sergei Starostin; and stagings of two Evgeny Grishkovets plays and a one-man show by Alexei Petrenko at the Globe Playhouse.

Russian Nights, Friday to April 23, Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood. Films, $5; concerts, $15; special events, $20-$25; theater, $35. (310) 712-2588 or www.russiannightsfest.com.

JAZZ

Frishberg by Frishberg

As a jazz pianist, Dave Frishberg has performed with some of the best, including Eddie Condon, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Gene Krupa and Carmen McRae to name a few. But Frishberg is best known as a singer-songwriter. His own albums have garnered four best jazz vocal Grammy nominations over the years. His songs, including such cult classics as “I’m Hip,” “My Attorney Bernie,” “Van Lingle Mungo,” “Peel Me a Grape” and “You Are There,” have been recorded by other artists including Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feinstein, Diana Krall, Blossom Dearie and Mel Torme.

Dave Frishberg, the Jazz Bakery, 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City. Thursday-Sunday, 8 and 9:30 p.m. $25-$30. (310) 271-9039.

ART

Potentially intoxicating

Where the old Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewery stood is now a blue-ribbon, 23-building, 21-acre complex of artists’ studios and living spaces. Stroll the walkways, peek into the lofts, get up close and personal with the artists at the annual Brewery Art Assn.’s Brewery ArtWalk Spring 2004. Admission and parking is free for this two-day artists’ open house. Most of the venue’s 175 artists will be on hand to discuss their works -- everything from paintings, costumes and clothing, heatrical and movie sets, websites, sculptures, etchings, prints, furniture, glass and ceramics to greeting cards, photography

and high fashion wear.

The Brewery ArtWalk Spring 2004, the Brewery, 600 Moulton Ave., downtown L.A. Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. (323) 342-0717.

POP MUSIC

Let there be Darkness

It’s a fine line between over the top and out of this world, and the Darkness has skated its edge into stardom in its English homeland. The question now is whether America will go for the band’s shameless flamboyance and retro metal bombast, which have earned the Darkness comparisons to Queen and Spinal Tap.

The Darkness, Henry Fonda Theatre, 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. Saturday-Sunday, 7 p.m. Sold out. (323) 464-0808.

DANCE

Hortons turn 13

The 13th annual Lester Horton Dance Awards -- held in the Aratani/Japan America Theatre in downtown L.A. -- again honor excellence in the Southern California dance community, with the previously announced winners this year to include dancer/choreographers Simone Forti (lifetime achievement), Douglas Nielsen (teaching), Debbie Allen (furthering the visibility of dance) and Hassan Christopher (innovation), along with impresario Danielle Brazelle (service to the field). Presented by the Dance Resource Center, the evening features many other awards, live dance performances and archival film segments.

Lester Horton Dance Awards, Aratani/Japan America Theatre, 244 S. San Pedro St., L.A. Sunday, 5 p.m. $10-$40. (323) 687-3961.

EVENT

The hull with it

The 31st annual Newport Boat Show lays claim to being the biggest “big boat” showcase on the West Coast with about 300 boats in the water from 26 to 100 feet in length, more than 35 yachts 60 feet or longer and more than 50 boats priced at more than $1 million. All told, about $150 million worth of sea craft will be on display.

Newport Boat Show, Lido Marina Village, near Via Lido and Newport Boulevard, south of Coast Highway, Newport Beach. Thursday-Friday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $10, 12 and younger, free. (949) 757-5959.

MOVIES

An artist caught in Nazis’ web

The subject of Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender’s compelling documentary “Prisoner of Paradise” is Kurt Gerron, one of Berlin’s most popular performers, first in cabaret, then on the stage and screen. Gerron, a decorated World War I veteran and Jew, was forced by the Nazis to direct an infamous piece of propaganda designed to suggest that the 40,000 to 50,000 Jews forced to live at Theresienstadt enjoyed a paradise-like existence. As it turned out, it was never shown by the Nazis. Among early opportunities to escape, Gerron turned down tickets to Hollywood because they weren’t first class. When at last he did try to get out of Holland, it was too late.

“Prisoner of Paradise,” unrated, opens Friday exclusively at Laemmle’s Music Hall, 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. (323) 848-3500.