There’s a lot of theater taking to stages around the South Sound, so this is a roundup of the offerings this weekend.



One of the funniest shows that no one really has heard of is playing across the Narrows Bridge. Gig Harbor’s Encore! Theater Company is presenting Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”



This musical is based on the observations of adults as they look back on their childhoods that were collected in Fulghum’s best-selling novel. This is a perfect show for people with children old enough to know how silly children can be sometimes. It’s one of those shows that is fun because it is so absurdly true in so many ways. And of course, it allows adults to act like complete children on stage, and that is always worth a trip to the local theater.



The show runs Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through March 22 at Encore’s theater, 6615 38th Ave. N.W., in Gig Harbor.



Tickets are $8 to $15; call 253.858.2282 or visit www.encoretheater.org for more information.

Also a hoot to watch is Tacoma Little Theatre’s staging of the classic Noel Coward play “Blithe Spirit,” which runs through this weekend.



This show never gets old even though it is more than six decades old because it is just a joy to watch the story unfold. British writer Charles Condomine finds himself with at least one too many women in his house after he invites a local spiritual medium to his house so he can study her for an upcoming novel he is writing. Madame Arcati, however, taps into the spirit world and brings back the ghost of Condomine’s first wife. She wants to see how life is going on without her, much to the dismay of Condomine’s current wife.



The show ran for almost 2,000 consecutive performances, which made it a Broadway record holder into the 1970s.



The cast of “Blithe Spirit” includes some of the most veteran actors in the South Sound: Marie Kelly, Britanny D. Henderson, Syra Beth Puett, and Jim Patrick, along with experienced newcomers to the TLT stage Jennifer Littlefield, Bill Read, and Robin Weakland.



“Blithe Spirit” runs at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday.  Tickets are $16 to $20; call 253.272.2281 or visit www.tacomalittletheatre.com. The theater is located at 210 North I St. in Tacoma.



The Festival of Northwest Plays ends its run this weekend. There will be a collection of short works running through three days.



The Northwest Playwrights Alliance’s festival runs daily until Sunday at Tacoma’s Broadway Center for the Performing Arts. The lineup includes “Tads,” a script pulled from last year’s Double Shot Festival, which runs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Friday will offer a roster of short works starting at 8 p.m. Saturday will have shorts at 4:30 p.m. and then “Geography Club” at 8 p.m. The festival ends Sunday with “New Orleans Monologues” at 2 p.m. and “In the Sawtooths” at 7:30 p.m.



Tickets are available by calling 206.325.6500 or at www.ticketwindowonline.com. Tickets are $12 general and $9 students. Visit www.northwestplaywrights.org for more information.