Looking for entertainment? Check out these local events this weekend

Get your mind into ‘The Gutter’

Double entendres, puns and hard-boiled patter abound in Olympia Little Theatre’s “In the Gutter,” opening Friday, June 2. The film noir-inspired 2023 play, making its West Coast premiere, concerns a door-to-door gutter salesman whose latest customer has more than home improvement on her mind. It seems she’s interested in a deluxe package — but if, and only if, the salesman is willing to kill her husband. The wild and wacky plot is, of course, secondary to the wordplay, and the theater’s press release promises “both groans and irrestible laughter.” Kendra L. Malm directs. Performances are at 7:25 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, June 2-3, 9-10 and 15-17 and 1:55 p.m. Sundays, June 4, 11 and 18. Playwright John Morogiello will be on hand to talk about the show after the June 16 performance. Tickets are $9-$15. Masks are required.

Fundraising fest goes on without ducks

Lacey Rotary’s Duck Dash, happening June 3, will feature plenty of kids’ stuff — including bounce houses, a slide, face painting and a fish pond — along with music, a beer garden and plenty of vendors, but there won’t be any racing rubber ducks. The faux fowl last floated in the Deschutes River in 2018; the following year, the event moved from Tumwater Falls Park to the landlocked Thurston County Fairgrounds at3054 Carpenter Road SE, Lacey, where it remains — though the Rotary is still hoping the ducks will hit the water again at some point. In place of the rubber ducky race, the duck .raffle, which raises money to support local and international nonprofits and the Rotary scholarship program, goes on. Though it’s no longer a visual spectacle, the raffle will be as exciting as ever for the people winning such prizes as a new Ford Mustang. The festival, happening from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., is free. Raffle tickets are $10 each; they can be purchased online and at participating businesses as well as at the fairgrounds.

Hit the pubs with Pride

Capital City Pride is gearing up for the big festival (set for July 1), raising money and getting the party started with a Pride Pub Crawl happening June 3. The crawl, from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, promises rainbow cocktails, glitter, drag queens and a scavenger hunt. Tickets are $13, and you have to buy one if you want to know where the fun is happening.

Freelance writer Molly Gilmore wasn’t able to find the right pun for the Pride Pub Crawl, though she considered both “Pride comes after a crawl” and something along the lines of “ain’t too proud to crawl.” She talks about what’s happening in Olympia and beyond with 95.3 KGY-FM’s Michael Stein from 3 to 4 p.m. Fridays.