TOP PICK
Shakespeare returns to Volunteer Park for GreenStage’s annual Outdoor Theater Festival, with eight theater companies performing 14 different plays (at last count), including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, As You Like It, and An Inconvenient Squirrel. All Bard classics, clearly. It’s family friendly, free, and runs all day Saturday and Sunday on two stages. Sat shows at noon, 2, 4, 5, 7; Sun shows at 11, 2, 4, 5, 7.

CONCERTS
Before there was Band of Horses and Grand Archives, there was Carissa’s Wierd. Seattle’s favorite softcore band reunites for one show only at Showbox at the Market on Friday in support of the aptly named compilation They’ll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996–2003.

Can’t get tickets? Quench your ’90s nostalgia with Train at Maryhill Winery on Saturday night, or go local TONIGHT at the Triple Door, where John Roderick of the Long Winters joins Jason Dodson of the Maldives and Karen Korn for an acoustic set.

Seattle Symphony brings Bugs Bunny to Benaroya tonight, and continues its pop culture series on Friday and Saturday with Broadway Rocks. A solid lineup of Broadway singers—Rob Evan, Capathia Jenkins, Doug LaBrecque, and Anne Runolfsson, backed by the symphony—perform songs from Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Rent, and Phantom.

FILM
For its latest edition of Dinner and a Movie, SIFF serves up local film director Lynn Shelton and and her porny comedy Humpday on Sunday night while Volterra chef Don Curtiss cooks an intimate dinner. We hear satire’s good for the appetite.

STREET FEST
Head to Hing Hay Park this weekend for the Chinatown-ID Summer Fest, the largest pan-Asian festival in the region, complete with lion and dragon dancing, taiko drumming, and dim sum.

SPORTS
The Bronx Bombers/Evil Empire/Yankees come to town for the only time this season, Thursday-Sunday, to play the Mariners, and you know the best part? The M’s actually have a shot at winning a few. They took 2 of 3 from the Yanks when they played them in the Bronx last week, thanks to stellar pitching by Cliff Lee and Felix.

Want to do your sun salutations outdoors this weekend? Head to Memorial Stadium at Seattle Center on Saturday morning for Yoga for Hope. Nine local yoginis lead a giant outdoor class of 108 sun salutations to raise money for cancer treatment/prevention. Mats not provided. $30; registration at 9am, class 10-noon.

LAST CHANCE
Part I of The Cider House Rules: Here in St. Cloud’s, Book-It Rep’s low-tech, high-drama adaptation of John Irving’s novel about abortion, ends on Sunday.