62 San Diego Reader February 25, 2016
THEATER LISTINGS
Theater listings and commentary are by Jeff Smith unless otherwise noted. Information is accurate according to material given us, but it is always wise to phone the theater for any last-minute changes and to inquire about ticket availability. Many theaters offer discounts to students, senior citizens, and the military. Ask at the box office.
The Book of Mormon Broadway/San Diego hosts a tour- ing production of the nine Tony Award-winning musical, written by the creators of South Park, about two young missionaries sent to a village to preach.
SAN DIEGO CIVIC THEATRE, 1100 THIRD AVE., DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO. 619-570- 1100. 7:30PM THURSDAYS, 8PM FRI- DAYS, 2PM SATURDAYS & SATURDAYS, 1PM & 6PM SUNDAYS, 7PM TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, THROUGH MARCH 5.
Brownsville Song (B-Side for Tray) Kimber Lee’s Brownsville, about the slaying of a promising young African American, is an important, though not that well written, drama. Eighteen-year-old Tray Thompson was a Golden Glover, a potential scholarship student, and a dynamo always moving forward. Was his death, on a street corner in Brook- lyn, “gang related”? Was he someone else all along? The non-linear script has lulls. Moxie Theatre’s gritty and graceful production, ably directed by
Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (recently awarded “Director of the Year for 2015”) features top level perfor- mances by Sylvia M’Lafi Thomp- son (recently awarded “Actor of the Year/Female, 2015”) and Cortez L. Johnson. Worth a try. MOXIE THEATRE, 6663 EL CAJON BL., SUITE N, ROLANDO. 858-598-7620. 7PM THURSDAYS, 8PM FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, 2PM SUNDAYS, THROUGH FEBRUARY 28.
Charlotte’s Web Pickwick Players stage their “youth and adult” production of a musical version of E.B. White’s popular tale about Wilbur, the runt of a litter of pigs, and Charlotte the Spidere, and how they conspire to save his life.
Frank Remiatte directs. OFF BROADWAY LIVE, 9490 CUYAMACA ST., SANTEE. 619-988-5483. 7:30PM FRIDAY, 2PM & 7:30PM SATURDAY, 2PM SUNDAY.
Circle Mirror Transformation Point Loma Playhouse stages Annie Baker’s Obie Award-winner about “an unlikely collection of strang- ers who sign up for Marty’s ‘Adult Creative Drama’ class.” They play theater games and develop relation- ships over the course of the summer.
George Ye directs. POINT LOMA ASSEMBLY HALL, 3035 TALBOT ST., POINT LOMA. 619-225- 0044. 8PM FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, 7PM SUNDAYS, THROUGH MARCH 13.
DNA New Work Series The La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA New Work Series allows playwrights and directors to develop a script by providing rehearsal time, space, and resources — all culminating in workshops or readings open to the public. This year’s six, one-day read-
SCHOOL PLAYS
A PIECE OF MY HEART FEB. 26 7PM, FEB. 27 7PM, FEB. 28 2PM CORONADO SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
ALICE CHAN MAR. 5 1PM, MAR. 5 3PM, MAR. 6 1PM, MAR. 6 3PM LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE
ALICE IN WONDERLAND JR. MAR. 4 7PM, MAR. 5 2PM, MAR. 5 7PM, MAR. 6 2PM, MAR. 11 7PM, MAR. 12 2PM, MAR. 12 7PM, MAR. 13 2PM MATER DEI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
CAMP ROLLING HILLS MAR. 3 7PM, MAR. 4 7PM, MAR. 5 2PM, MAR. 5 7PM
RANCHO BERNARDO HIGH SCHOOL COFFEEHOUSE
GEORGE ORWELL’S 1984
SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE FEB. 25 2:30PM, FEB. 25 7PM, FEB. 26 7PM, FEB. 27 7PM, MAR. 3 2:30PM, MAR. 3 7PM, MAR. 4 7PM, MAR. 5 7PM SCHOOL OF CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS
SEUSSICAL FEB. 27 2PM, FEB. 27 7PM, FEB. 28 2PM, MAR. 5 2PM, MAR. 5 7PM, MAR. 6 2PM STAR THEATRE
APR. 8, APR. 9
MARY POPPINS FEB. 26 7PM, FEB. 27 7PM, MAR. 3 6PM, MAR. 4 7PM, MAR. 5 2PM MIRA MESA HIGH SCHOOL
MARY POPPINS THE MUSICAL FEB. 26 7PM, FEB. 27 7PM, MAR. 4 7PM, MAR. 5 2PM, MAR. 5 7PM, MAR. 6 2PM
JOAN B. KROC THEATRE
MAR. 17, MAR. 18, MAR. 19 POINT LOMA HIGH SCHOOL
ings are: a concert reading Miss You Like Hell and one-day readings of Trinity, To the Quick, Safe at Home, The Change Room, Like They Magi- cal, and El Huracan. All readings are free. LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE, 2910 LA JOLLA VILLAGE DR., UCSD. 858-550-1010.
A World Pr emier e Pla y The Last Match
PINOCCHIO MAR. 18 7:30PM, MAR. 19 2PM, MAR. 19 6PM, MAR. 20 2PM
SAN MARCOS COMMUNITY CENTER
7:30PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY, 3PM SUNDAY, 7:30PM MONDAY.
The Duck Variations Different Stages performs David Mamet’s existential comedy about two men watching ducks. “The top- ics range from the mating habits to examinations of law, leadership, friendship, sex, and death. The fact is, neither one knows the first thing
about ducks.” Jerry Pilato directs. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LA JOLLA, 1216 CAVE ST., LA JOLLA. 858-459-5045. 9PM FRIDAYS, 7:30PM SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, THROUGH MARCH 6.
Emile: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight New Village Arts Theatre presents Lauren Gunderson’s drama about Emilie du Chatelet, a scientific genius in 18th century France. She was the first woman published by the Adacemie Royale Des Sciences and a major influence on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. “But many people today have never heard of her.” Kristianne
Kurner directs. NEW VILLAGE ARTS THEATRE, 2787 B STATE ST., CARLSBAD. 760-433-3245. 8PM THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 3PM & 8PM SATURDAYS, 2PM SUNDAYS, THROUGH MARCH 6.
Photo by Jim Cox.
Troian Bellisario TV’s
“Pretty Little Liars”
Patrick J. Adams TV’s
“Suits”
Alex Mickiewicz Broadway’s
Thérèse Raquin By Anna Ziegler Natalia Payne
Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I
Limited Engagement Through March 13 The Last Match
Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623)
www.TheOldGlobe.org
Fiddler on the Roof Welk Resorts Theatre opens its new season with Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, and Joseph Stein’s musical classic about tradition and change in a small Russian village. Songs include “If I Were a Rich Man” and “Sunrise, Sunset.” Kathy Brom-
bacher directs. WELK RESORT THEATRE, 8860 LAWRENCE WELK DR., ESCONDIDO. 888- 802-7469. 1PM & 8PM THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS, 1PM SUNDAYS, THROUGH APRIL 24.
For The Sender: Love Letters from Vietnam North Coast Repertory Theatre hosts a live concert performance
SHREK JR. FEB. 27 2PM, FEB. 27 7PM, FEB. 28 2PM MAXINE THEATER
THE SOUND OF MUSIC MAY 13, MAY 14 HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
WIZARD OF OZ MAR. 4 7PM, MAR. 5 2PM, MAR. 6 2PM, MAR. 11 7PM, MAR. 12 7PM, MAR. 12 2PM PACIFIC BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL
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that “revolves around the true corre- spondence between a flawed soldier stationed in Vietnam in 1968 and his daughter, searching for answers in the present.”
NORTH COAST REPERTORY THE- ATRE, 987-D LOMAS SANTA FE DR., SOLANA BEACH. 858-481-1055. 7:30PM MONDAY.
Guards at the Taj A play of vast extremes, Rajiv Joseph’s obsidian-black comedy begins at the birth of the Taj Mahal, where Humayun and Babur have been “dawn patrol” guards for years. The play is funny, tragic, and Grand Guignol gruesome. Its sweeping highs and lows can fascinate, if you don’t let obviously skewed logistics intrude. Manu HNarayan (Huma- yan) and Babak Tafit (Babur) create a deft, odd-couple pairing of lifelong friends and polar opposites. Their exchanges, even when the story bleeds them of their humanity, are
crisp. sly, and fully felt. Worth a try. LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE, 2910 LA JOLLA VILLAGE DR., UCSD. 858-550-1010. 8PM THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 2PM & 8PM SATURDAYS, 2PM & 7PM SUNDAYS, THROUGH FEBRUARY 28.
The Importance of Being Earnest The Circle Players of El Cajon pres- ent a staged reading of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy about doubled lives, in the city and country, and the need
to keep them separate. RICHARDSON HALL, 551 FARRAGUT CIRCLE, EL CAJON. 7PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY, 1PM SUNDAY.
The Last Match The Old Globe Theatre presents Anna Ziegler’s “funny and visceral look at the sacrifices we make to stay on top.” Russian phenom Sergei Sergeyev and American superstar Tim Porter do battle at center court. As the game unfolds, the play goes into their minds “to reveal the lives and relationships that led to this defining moment.” Gayle Taylor
Upchurch directs. SHERYL AND HARVEY WHITE THEATRE,
1363 OLD GLOBE WAY, BALBOA PARK. 619-234-5623. 8PM THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 2PM & 8PM SATURDAYS, 2PM & 7PM SUNDAYS, 7PM TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, THROUGH MARCH 13.
The Metromaniacs David Ives’s “translaptation” of Alexis Piron’s French farce, La Metromanie, dazzles with wordplay. Eighteenth century Paris has gone crazy for poetry (“verse-mania”) and young Damis falls for his favorite poetess. Complications arise, mul- tiply, then proliferate. Everyone becomes someone else. Ives’s iambics (spiced with contemporary slang) are classy. The play, however, is an almost endless maze. The parts, in the script and the Old Globe produc- tion, are more interesting than the
whole. Worth a try. OLD GLOBE THEATRE, 1363 OLD GLOBE WAY, BALBOA PARK. 619-234-5623. 8PM THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 2PM & 8PM SATURDAYS, 2PM & 7PM SUNDAYS, 7PM TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, THROUGH MARCH 6.
Now You See It North Coast Repertory Theatre presents Georges Feydeau’s farce about “paranoia, jealousy, a phi- landering husband, hypnotism, a spurned lover and a scandal- ous discovery.”
NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE, 987-D LOMAS SANTA FE DR., SOLANA BEACH. 858-481-1055. 8PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY, 8PM SATURDAY, 2PM & 7PM SUNDAY, 7PM WEDNESDAY.
Now or Later Diversionary Theatre stages Chris- topher Shinn’s political drama about the Democratic Presidential can- didate and his family on election night. “Sequestered in a downstairs room, the soon-to-be-President’s son watches as controversial photos of himself at a college party explode over the internet.” Matt M. Mor-
row directs. DIVERSIONARY THEATRE, 4545 PARK BL., UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS. 619-220- 0097. 7:30PM THURSDAYS, 8PM FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, 2PM SUNDAYS, THROUGH MARCH 13.
Rasheeda Speaking Vantage Theatre stages Joel Drake Johnson’s “tense and cringingly funny portrait of racial paranoia.” Co-workers, one black, one white, are driven apart by their boss in this “office-politics thriller” about a human resource-problem that
“doesn’t turn out quite as expected.” CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LA JOL- LA, 1216 CAVE ST., LA JOLLA. 858-459- 5045. 7PM FRIDAYS, 5PM SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, THROUGH MARCH 16.
The Seagull The Old Globe/University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program presents Anton Chekhov’s “dark comedy about the impos- sible nature of love, ambition, and pleasing one’s parents!” Brenda DeVita directs.
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO, 5998 ALCA- LÀ PARK, USD. 619-260-4600. 7:30PM SATURDAY, 2PM & 7:30PM SUNDAY, 7:30PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY.
Short Eyes Amigos del REP presents a read- ing of Miguel Pinero’s drama of prison life. Most of the convicts are either black or Puerto Rican. When a young white prisoner accused of child molesting enters the cell block, they call him “short eyes,” the low- est form of criminal, and vow to dispense justice. Bryant Hernan- dez directs.
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