The puns, oh god, the puns.

If you can think of a pun that involves marine life, courtroom procedure, or marine life enacting courtroom procedure, you can bet it will be found somewhere in the Bryan Willis script of The Incredible Undersea Trial of Joseph P. Lawnboy - the tale of a 20-something perennial high school student captured by pollution-stricken sea life to stand trial for his contribution to humanity's crimes against the water.

Lawnboy is a show for children, through and through. Its necessarily short running time - an hour is all any parent is likely to get out of the target audience before a potentially fatal case of the fidgets sets in - is full of bright colors, exaggerated expressions and blatant jokes.

Read full review here.

[Tacoma Little Theatre, through March 14, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, $15, $10 family discount when purchasing three or more tickets, 210 N. I St., Tacoma, 253.272.2281]