“Macbeth”

Shakespeare In the Parking Lot is presenting a presidential play with Macbeth playing the role of as a presidential candidate running an actual whistle-stop tour that leads to full a production of “Macbeth” for November’s Art At Work Month in Tacoma. The next show is Sunday, Aug. 19, at Glass Roots Festival. Check it at www.shakespeareinthe parkinglot.org.

“Big Bad”

Encore! Youth Theater has two performances of a new play, “Big Bad” by playwright Alec Strum. The show is written with three endings, which allows the audience to determine the outcome of the trial of the Big Bad Wolf of “Three Little Pigs” and “Little Red Riding Hood” fame. The result of a one-week, 30-hour workshop, the show will be performed by young actors. The show chronicles the story of the most notorious criminal in the fairy-tale world, Big Bad Wolf, who is being slapped with a class-action lawsuit by the countless characters he has wronged. Now the two greatest legal minds in the Enchanted Forest — the Evil Stepmother and the Fairy Godmother — will clash in a trial that will be remembered forever after. 

[Encore! Theater, Aug. 18-19, 2 p.m., $5, 6615 38th Ave. N.W., Gig Harbor, www. encoretheater.org]