Lakewood Playhouse has been part of the community since 1938. Its 175-seat theater in Lakewood Towne Center stages musicals, plays and shows for young audiences.
Places to explore
Parks, museums, theaters and waterfront: the places we send people, with hours, prices and what's on.
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A big car museum next to the Tacoma Dome, plus cruise-ins in the parking lot where local owners bring their own cars.
A restored downtown lodge with restaurants, bars, a ballroom and The Vault, a hidden bar that's advertised on the website.
Watch glassblowers work in the Hot Shop. The main galleries are closed for renovation, but the furnace is running.
A bar with a stage on East 25th Street near the Tacoma Dome, open every day from 4pm to midnight, with burgers, cocktails and ticketed band nights.
The beach inside Point Defiance Park, rebuilt with a promenade, a whale play area and easier water access. Open half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.
The 1918 vaudeville house on Broadway, now Tacoma's touring Broadway and symphony stage. 1,274 seats, a box office that opens one afternoon a week, and a full calendar of one-night shows.
760 acres of old forest, gardens, beach and the zoo at Tacoma's north end. Decide which part you want before you park.
A zoo and an aquarium on one ticket, inside Point Defiance Park. Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays in most seasons, cashless at the gate, and a separate ticketed light show from late November.
The shops, restaurants and Blue Mouse Theatre around North 26th and Proctor, on a street renamed in 1909 for the architect of the county courthouse.
A nonprofit Saturday farmers market at North 27th and Proctor, from April to mid-December, with a smaller winter market twice a month after that.
Choose-and-cut and already-cut Christmas trees beside a historic hop barn on SR 162 in Puyallup.
A 742-seat 1918 movie house on South 9th, now the intimate Tacoma City Theaters room for jazz, comedy and one-off bills.
The University of Puget Sound's concert hall in the North End, seating just under 500, with student ensembles, faculty recitals and the Jacobsen Series.
A wooded creek canyon on the Eastside, with spawning salmon in early winter and an old wartime street grid in the woods above. Check closure notices first.
The 1900s drill hall on Yakima Avenue, now Tacoma Arts Live's home for markets, film tours and community events. A 20,000-square-foot parade floor and the Eleanor Roosevelt Room, hired out rather than programmed nightly.
Western and Northwest art in downtown Tacoma. Admission is free on Thursday nights from 5 to 8.
The Tacoma Boys market at 5602 6th Avenue sells groceries, plants and seasonal Christmas trees. Call this branch for tree arrivals.
Tacoma Boys’ Puyallup market is on 39th Avenue SW, with groceries, plants and past Christmas tree sales at this address.
The city-owned arena in the Dome District, roofed with 1.6 million board feet of wood. It was the largest wooden dome in the world, briefly.
A community theatre founded in 1918 and in the same converted auto shop on North I Street since 1940. Musicals, plays, and a pay-what-you-can performance late in each run.
Tacoma Musical Playhouse, in the old Narrows Theatre on 6th Avenue, renovated in 2013 for live musicals, with the orchestra moved to a loft above the seats.
Trails around Snake Lake in central Tacoma. No dogs or bikes, and skip Wednesday mornings, when parking fills up.
Tacoma's independent movie theater and the home of the Tacoma Film Festival. Thursday tickets are $7.50, with some exceptions.