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Tacoma Musical Playhouse, Tacoma Little Theater and Lakewood Playhouse have joined forces for a night of free theater snippets as part of National Live Theater Week.

These theatres will present excerpts from their mainstage productions, South Pacific, Bunnicula, Much Ado about Nothing, The Leading Ladies, Lucky Stiff and Macbeth.

[Tacoma Musical Playhouse, Thursday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m., 7116, Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.565.6867, TMP.org]

For the south King crowd, Stage Door Productions in Enumclaw is staging Of Mice and Men, with Christian Doyle, Brian Lewis, Emily Olson, Sam Kyles and Scott Brown.