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Tuesday Synetic’s silent ‘Othello’ Sunday National Memorial Day Concert Saturday D.C. high school baseball championship
PHOTOS, FROM LEFT: GRAEME B. SHAW; KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST; BILL GEIGER
“A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION”
Friday
Set sail for Lake Wobegon as Garrison Keillor travels with his down-home variety show — complete with a helping of folksiness straight from the fictional Minnesota town — for a live performance Friday at 8 p.m. (Saturday’s show is sold out.) Wolf Trap National Park, Filene Center, 1551 Trap Rd., Vienna. 877-965-3872. 703-255-1868.
www.wolf-trap.org. $25.
SUNSET CELEBRATION AT MOUNT VERNON
Friday-Sunday
You’ve probably toured Mount Vernon in the heat of the summer sun, but have you ever watched the sun set over the presidential plantation or glimpsed the estate grounds when the cool evening breezes blow and the tourists are nowhere in sight? Special evening tours include wine, dessert, 18th-century music, dancing and games, Friday through Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m. Mount Vernon, 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy., Alexandria. 703-780-2000. www.
visit.mountvernon.org. $18; $12 ages 6 to 11; free age 5 and younger.
ARGENTINE FESTIVAL
Saturday
The D.C. area’s busy cultural festival season unofficially begins with the
Argentine festival in Arlington on Saturday from 4 to 10:30 p.m. Mark the bicentennial of Argentina’s quest for independence from Spain with Argentine music, dance and, of course, food: try the choripán, which combines spicy chorizo with a crisp baguette. Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre, 125 S. Old Glebe Rd., Arlington. 703-212-5850. $20-$25.
NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT
Sunday FREE
Brad Paisley, Lionel Richie, Dennis Haysbert, Yolanda Adams and others join hosts Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna for the National Symphony Orchestra’s musical tribute to the men and women who lost their lives in service to the country. Gates open at 5 p.m., and the concert begins at 8 p.m. on the West Lawn. U.S. Capitol, East Capitol and First streets (Metro: Capitol
South). 202-225-6827. For more Memorial Day suggestions, see Page 4.
“THURGOOD”
Tuesday-June 20
After debuting on Broadway in 2008, Laurence Fishburne returns to his role as Thurgood Marshall in George Stevens Jr.’s one-man biographical play about the life of the United States Supreme Court’s first black justice and Maryland
native. Beginning Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theater, 2700 F St. NW (Metro: Foggy Bottom). 202-467-4600. 800-444-1324.
www.kennedy-center. org. $25-$90.
MELWOOD PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY OPEN
Thursday-June 6
With Tiger Woods’s AT&T National teeing off near Philadelphia through 2011, the Nationwide Tour’s Prince George’s County Open is the closest professional golf will come to Washington this summer. Watch 156 players, including Steve Pate, Jason Gore and Skip Kendall, compete for a $600,000 purse when the tournament’s first round tees off Thursday at 7 a.m. University of Maryland Golf Course, Adelphi Road and University Boulevard, College Park (Metro: College Park). 301-314-4653.
“OTHELLO”
Thursday-July 3
What’s Shakespeare without the words? Still magnificent, in the hands of Synetic Theater’s Irina Tsikurishvili. Throughout Synetic’s ongoing wordless Shakespeare series, the company has proven that the fluidity of movement can stand in for the poetry of the Bard’s words. “Othello,” the company’s latest interpretation, premieres Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Kennedy
Center, Family Theater, 2700 F St. NW. 202-467-4600. 800-444-1324.
www.kennedy-center.org. $30-$55.
PAUL SANCHEZ AND THE ROLLING ROAD SHOW WITH BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION
Thursday
Paul Sanchez, one of the founders of Cowboy Mouth, teams up with trombonist/bandleader “Big Sam” Williams — who has a regular role on HBO’s David Simon-produced “Treme” — Thursday at 8 p.m. for a night of music to raise money for a New Orleans-based record label and celebrate the city’s musical traditions. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW (Metro: Gallery Place). 202-408-3100.
www.sixthandi.org. $20-$25.
— By Alex Baldinger
IT’S FREE!
D.C. HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Saturday
We’re big fans of Stephen Strasburg, but how about some love for rising baseball talent born and bred in Washington? Nationals Park opens its doors to the public as D.C. high school teams, including Wilson, St. Albans and Maret, compete for the Modell’s Cup. Semi-final matchups begin at 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and a citywide all-star game starts at 3:30 p.m. First pitch for the championship game is slated for 6:30 p.m. A fan zone, with skills clinics and radar guns, opens at noon. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE (Metro: Navy Yard). 202-675-6287. www.
congressionalbankclassic.org.
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