Yellow brick fun

Capital Playhouse’s Kids at Play musical offering these days is “The Wizard of Oz” — lions and tigers and bears and such.

[Capital Playhouse, 7 p.m. July 12-15, $19-$25, 612 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia, 360.943.2744, playhouse.com\">www.capital playhouse.com]

“Princess Ida”

A fun show that is well worth the trip to the Emerald City is “Princess Ida.”

The comic opera is the only Gilbert and Sullivan work with dialogue entirely in blank verse. It is also the only one of their works in three acts. The opera satirizes feminism, women’s education, and Darwinian evolution, all of which were controversial topics in conservative Victorian England.

[Bagley Wright Theatre, through July 28, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, $12-$32, 155 Mercer St., Seattle, 206.292.2728]