PLAN AHEAD: NEXT WEEKEND

* The Harlem Globetrotters play their unique style of basketball at 7 p.m. next Thursday at Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa St., downtown L.A. $11-$75. (213) 480-3232.

* Rosanna Gamson/Worldwide presents the premiere engagement of “Rita Goes to Hell” March 1-4 at Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica. $15. (310) 315-1459.

* The Swiss mime troupe Mummenschanz performs “Next” Wednesday-March 4 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Road, Irvine. $17-$35. (949) 854-4646.

* “Much Ado About Nothing,” Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, infused with the flavor of 1930s screwball comedies, plays March 2 to April 1 at South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, $28-$49. (714) 708-5555.

* “Annie Get Your Gun,” the Irving Berlin musical classic about sharp-shooting Annie Oakley, with Marilu Henner and Tom Wopat, plays Tuesday to March 4 at the Wilshire Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. $42-$67. (213) 365-3500.

* The LACMA Film Department presents a retrospective devoted to Hou Hsiao-hsien, the great Taiwanese director, March 2-17 in the museum’s Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. $5-$7. (323) 857-6010.