WEEK IN PREVIEW

MOVIES

“The Newton Boys” tells the true story of America’s most successful bank robbers, who from 1919 to 1924 pulled off 80 heists. Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio and Skeet Ulrich star for director Richard Linklater. The film opens Friday in general release.

MUSIC

You’ll hear his brand new Fanfare on the Oscar telecast Monday night, and then on Thursday, film composer Jerry Goldsmith’s “Music for Orchestra” receives its West Coast premiere with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

THEATER

Penn & Teller, magicians from the razor’s edge, have a new big bad bag of tricks, including broken-bottle juggling, card tricks with forklifts and the deadly “Bullet Catch.” And what they put in chipper-shredders is not for the squeamish. They’re at the Wilshire Theatre from Wednesday through April 5.

ART

“Framing the Asian Shore: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of the Ottoman Empire,” opening Saturday at the Getty in Brentwood, takes the viewer on a tour of the cultural and urban fabric of Istanbul, Turkey, in a series of images drawn from the Research Center’s Pierre de Gigord collection.

DANCE

Starting with a Stone Age batter walloping a rock with a tree limb, the Momix vehicle “Baseball” explores the myth and lore of our national pastime-- to music by everyone from James Brown to Stravinsky. Catch the game Friday at the Alex in Glendale and Saturday at the California Center in Escondido.

POP MUSIC

Winding up a three-week U.S. tour, Roni Size Reprazent makes its L.A. debut Saturday and next Sunday at the Roxy in West Hollywood. The English drum-and-bass collective won the prestigious Mercury Award--a U.K. honor for artistic achievement--for its 1997 album “New Forms.”

JAZZ

An eccentric pianist, an ironic lyricist and a distinctive singer, Mose Allison has long fit into his own niche. Although he is a jazz improviser, his style also encompasses country blues and folk but in his own way. He’ll be at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City from Tuesday through Sunday.

VIDEO

Perhaps Peter Fonda will take home the gold on Monday for his acclaimed performance as a taciturn beekeeper in “Ulee’s Gold.” The sentimental Oscar favorite has already won the Golden Globe and New York Film Critics honors for Victor Nunez’s drama. The film buzzes into video shelves on Tuesday.

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Early Warning: Patrick Marber’s comic drama “Dealer’s Choice,” set in a London restaurant during a wild poker game, opens April 16 at the Mark Taper Forum.