Weekend Preview: plays and prison

Gone are the days of the South Sound Playwrights Festival, but the art remains alive.

The Northwest Playwrights Alliance, which now meets in Seattle, will be staging a show at Tacoma Little Theatre Friday to give theatergoers a peek at what its members have been up to recently.

“To the Sea,” is a collection of short plays presented by an ensemble from Western Washington University and directed by Rich Brown. The shows are on their way to performances already slated for New York and England. One notable in the show is “Convention,” by Dan Erickson and Bryan Willis that was last seen during TLT’s 2009 play festival of new works.

Saturday will bring music of fun with the Afrodisiacs at the Firwood Rock Lounge. This spoof disco cover band never disappoints. Audience participation of the Village People’s YMCA and other classic disco standards always causes laughs and giggles.

While God may have rested on the seventh day, Tacoma film buffs shouldn’t, at least this weekend. The Tacoma Cult Movie Club’s meeting Sunday will be themed “Back in the Slammer: A Return to Women’s Prison.” The movies start at 7 p.m. and include free popcorn at the Acme Grub Cage.

And with that, the weekend will be done.