“Rosenkrantz” and “Hamlet” at Lakewood

Lakewood Playhouse present two Tom Stoppard comedies: the wacky “Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” a behind-the-scenes version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” told by the hero’s college buddies, and “The Fifteen-Minute Hamlet,” which is exactly (and hilariously) what it sounds like. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday through Aug. 15. $23/$20/$17/$15. 5729 Lakewood Towne Center Blvd, Lakewood. 253-588-0042, www.lakewoodplayhouse.org

Tacoma Art Museum festival

TAM’s Best of the Northwest Free Community Festival showcases not only local art inside (the Neddys, painter Victoria Adams, plus a local version of “Tacoma’s Got Talent”) but outside also, as the CLAW cartoon …

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“The Grapes of Wrath” at Lakewood Playhouse

Lakewood ends its 71^st season with Tony winner “The Grapes of Wrath,” based on the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning novel by John Steinbeck about a poor Oklahoma family driven out by hunger. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. through June 13. $22/$19 senior and military/$16 ages 16-25/$14 under-16. Lakewood Playhouse, 5729 Lakewood Towne Center Blvd, Lakewood. 253-588-0042, www.lakewoodplayhouse.org

Cirque du Soleil’s “Kooza” at Marymoor Park

The world-famous circus company returns to its roots in “Kooza,” a show focusing on acrobatics and clowning. 8 p.m. Tue.-Thur., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 1 p.m. …

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“Canoe Way” film documents traditions

Locally-made independent film “Canoe Way: The Sacred Journey” documents the culture and spirituality of Coast Salish people. A Q-and-A with filmmakers Mark Celletti and Robert Satiacum, son of Chief Robert “Bob” Satiacum, follows the screening at 6:30 p.m. tonight. Free. Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 1115 South 56th Street, Tacoma. 253-474-4646, www.tuuc-wa.org, www.canoeway.org

Lakewood Playhouse does “Pinafore”

Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta “H.M.S. Pinafore,” about a wacky ship’s crew and a sailor who loves the captain’s daughter, gets a superbly silly dusting off at Lakewood Playhouse. 8 p.m. Fri-Sat. and 2 p.m. Sun. through April …

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“Iggy Scrooge” comes to Theatre Northwest

Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” gets a rock musical reworking in “The Salvation of Iggy Scrooge,” with Elvis and Buddy as Christmas ghosts and a female punk rocker as the infamous Scrooge, courtesy of Theatre Northwest. Opens 7:30 p.m. tonight, then 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5, 11,12, 18, 19; 3 p.m. Dec. 6, 13, 20. $39/$49. Theatre on the Square, 915 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-591-5894, www.broadwaycenter.org, www.theatrenorthwestgroup.org

 Have yourself “A Tuna Christmas” at Lakewood/TLT

Lakewood Playhouse and Tacoma Little Theatre get together for a co-production of “A Tuna Christmas,” a two-man, 22-character mayhem set in Texas’ …

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If you’re like me, you need something mid-December to take the sweet edge off all those “Nutcrackers”, “Christmas Carols” and figgy puddings. My solution? “A Tuna Christmas.” No, it’s not edible, or even fishy. It’s a two-man, 22-character comedy opening this weekend, it’s a collaboration between Lakewood Playhouse and Tacoma Little Theatre, and it’s incredibly funny.

“Tuna Christmas” is the second in a series of comedies from writers Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard, who also tour the country with it. Set in the parochial little town of Tuna, Texas (the third-smallest in the state, apparently) the …

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