62 San Diego Reader April 20, 2017


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sis to be over last July, when the fountains were turned back on, but the fence was not removed until now. “Having waited a long time, everyone around the city is ecstatic,” said Tony Visco, maintenance supervisor for the city’s Public Works Department. “We just got the order from the city coun-


cil this week,” said Visco, as the fence was being taken down on April 5. The city continues to look to bring in a


reclaimed water source, the closest being a current reclaimed water line at the front gate of Camp Pendleton, about ten blocks north of the civic center.


KEN HARRISON


MIDDLETOWN Neighbors cheer Stay hotel on India and Olive Budget truck rental lot replaced A vacation spot named “Stay” is in the works for the corner lot on India and West Olive in Middletown. The property owner (Indio Live LP/Mark Mandell) of the site located at 2801 India has applied for a site development permit. The plan is to build a three-story hotel with subterranean parking.


The current tenant of the lot is a Budget Truck Rental. Terry has rental property directly above


the lot on Columbia Street (parallel to India). “I support the project based on the design and how we were able to iron out issues at subcommittee meetings. It’s going to be a very nice development with several smaller structures with breezeways.” Leo Wilson, chair of the Uptown Plan-


ners, said the project was approved unani- mously by the local planning group at the March subcommittee meeting and approved on consent at the April 4 planners meet- ing, with conditions. Wilson said, “We had one person in the back that was against the project because they were losing their view and such. The project is low, and in the end he supported it.” “One nice thing is it’s not one monolithic


building, it’s nine buildings with plazas,” said Wilson. He explained that the hotel will have 24 rooms and is more of a vacation accom- modation. “It’s more like your aunt comes to town and instead of staying in your spare room, they stay at Stay.” He pointed out that it’s the community’s


gateway coming off the I-5. “The truck place isn’t exactly the best way to say ‘welcome.’” The project architect, Philip Cudaback, with Lahaina Architects, told me he would


THEATER


Over the Tavern PowPAC presents Tom Dudzick’s comedy about the Pazinskis family, and their 12-year-old son Rudy. The precocious kid has begun to ques- tion family values and the Roman Catholic Church. Rudy believes that “God put us on earth to have fun.” So why is his family not having any? Annette Alliano directs. POWPAC, 13250 POWAY RD., POWAY. 858-679-8085. 8PM FRIDAYS & SATUR- DAYS, 2PM SUNDAYS.


Red Velvet Lolita Chakrabarti wrote a medio- cre play about an important subject. The Old Globe Theatre’s puzzling, under-rehearsed opening night was no help. In 1833, legendary tragidean Edmund Kean collapsed on stage while playing Othello. Ira Aldridge, African-American and one of history’s greatest actors, filled in — the first black man to play the role. According to audiences and racist critics, he failed. The play asks why he never performed at London’s Theatre Royale after that. Except for Allison Mack (precise and human as Ellen Tree), the cast shouted, most with homemade accents, and played cartoons instead of characters. OLD GLOBE THEATRE, 1363 OLD GLOBE WAY, BALBOA PARK. 619-234-5623. 8PM THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 2PM & 8PM SATURDAYS, 2PM & 7PM SUNDAYS, 7PM TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS.


Skeleton Crew Detroit, 2008, the breakroom of the Motor City’s last stamping auto


plant. Rumors say its closing. Three highly-skilled workers and their supervisor, all African-American, face uncertainty and, if they can find one, a less-fulfilling job. In Dominique Morriseau’s at times uneven but ultimately compelling play, choices threaten loyalties. Crew is a co-production of the Old Globe and Moxie Theaters. Moxie’s Delicia Turner Sonnenberg gives the piece a tough-minded, surprisingly funny staging — bring her back! — aided by capable performances and design work, especially Tim Mackabee’s industrial-generic set (with maybe the grungiest sofa ever at the White Theatre), Jennifer Brawn Gitting’s precise costumes, and Lindsay Jone’s sound design, which makes the stamping machine pulse like music. Critic’s Pick. 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.


Travels with My Aunt North Coast Repertory Theatre presents Giles Havergal’s theatrical adaptation of the Graham Greene novel. Eccentric aunt Augusta swoops in, shakes up the life of her staid bour- geois nephew, and ignites the lust for adventure buried within his gray flan- nel soul.” David Ellenstain directs. NORTH COAST REPERTORY THE- ATRE, 987-D LOMAS SANTA FE DR., SOLANA BEACH. 858-481-1055. 8PM THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 2PM & 8PM SATURDAYS, 2PM & 7PM SUNDAYS, 8PM WEDNESDAYS.


Women at War Ion Theatre presents a staged read-


ing of Rebecca Johannsen’s “explo- ration of global conflict through a different lens.” The piece is based in interviews with the U.S. Army’s FET Unit, which engaged with the local female Afghan population, in 2012-13, and often found themselves in combat zones before women were legally allowed in combat. ION THEATRE COMPANY BLKBOX THE- ATRE, 3704 SIXTH AVE., HILLCREST. 619- 600-5020. 7:30PM MONDAY, APR. 24.


UPCOMING SHOWS


Ballast Diversionary Theatre stages the world premiere of Georgette Kelly’s “poetical exploration of the waking and dream lives of two trans- and cisgender couples as they come to terms with the new lives they find


themselves in.” Matt Morrow directs. DIVERSIONARY THEATRE, 4545 PARK BL., UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS. 619-220- 0097. MAY 4 THROUGH JUNE 4.


Clybourne Park Palomar College stages Bruce Norris’ follow-up to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. Act One takes place in 1959, as white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the pres- ent day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification. Annie Hin- ton directs. PALOMAR COLLEGE, 1140 WEST MISSION RD., SAN MARCOS. MAY 5


have to check with the designer, Domi- nique Houriet from [oo-d-a] Studio, before answering any questions. He did say that he is attached to the project specifically because Houriet is the designer.


JULIE STALMER


CARLSBAD Visitors bend rules at Flower Fields Enforcement staff doubled The 50 acres of fields located in Carlsbad are lined with Giant Tecolote ranunculus flow- ers. They are in bloom for approximately six to eight weeks each year, from early March through early May. “[With] the density of the color and the brightness,” general manager Fred Clarke said, “this is going to be the best April ever.” Shawn, a graphic designer and a student- photographer on Yelp, noticed the “pop” of the colors this season. This day was the annual trek with his wife and two kids when they meet up with their cousins, Michael and his family. “Dude, it’s hella packed today,” said Michael. Clarke said that attendance is up 10 per-


cent; over 100,000 people have come since its opening last month. “We have green tapes around the perimeter of the fields to help


THROUGH MAY 14.


James and the Giant Peach Coronado Playhouse offers the popular musical based on Roald Dahl’s book. “James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He’s very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW.” CORONADO PLAYHOUSE, 1835 STRAND WAY, CORONADO. 619-435-4856. JUNE 9 THROUGH JULY 2.


The Music Man The Welk Resort Theater mounts Meredith Willson’s hugely popular musical about how “fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize – this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef.” Songs include “76 Trombones,” “Trouble,” and “Till There Was You.” WELK RESORT THEATRE, 8860 LAWRENCE WELK DR., ESCONDIDO. 888- 802-7469. MAY 5 THROUGH JULY 27.


Much Ado About Nothing The Coronado Playhouse offers Shakespeare’s comic romance “set amidst the high spirits of a post-war house party. This is a different kind


of battlefield altogether.” CORONADO PLAYHOUSE, 1835 STRAND WAY, CORONADO. 619-435-4856. JULY 21 THROUGH JULY 27.


The Old Man and the Old Moon The Old Globe Theatre presents


encourage people not to get into the flowers.” Michael and Shawn occasionally bend


the rules to get their family portraits. They know how “brutal” it is to get the right angles without the other families in the background photobombing their shots. “That tape will be hard to photoshop out,”


said Shawn as Michael prepped his camera on the tripod. Two members of the family were instructed to step slightly on the green tape. A young couple on the opposite corner stepped over the tape and lay inside the flower bed — to take romantic selfies. “We have a staff of ambassadors that are


out there trying to help people — to keep them out of the flowers,” said Clarke. One father snapped back at an employee


as he was caught red-handed. “It [the flower] was on the ground,” he said. “I didn’t pick it.” Clarke: “The most important thing about


managing [the green-tape jumpers] it to try to be there before someone hops in,” he said. “Once a few people get in, then everyone sees that those people are in….” Clarke said he had to double the amount ambassadors from three in 2015 to six in 2017. The ambassadors drive up and down the paths (with some) wearing sunglasses so that the visitors don’t know where and who they are watching.


MIKE MADRIAGA


the West Coast premiere of PigPen Theatre Company’s ‘story of time and tides and quests.” The Old Man tends to the Old Moon. He revills the light that spills out every night. Then his wife leaves home unexpectedly. Stuart Carden and PigPen Theatre co-direct. SHERYL AND HARVEY WHITE THEATRE, 1363 OLD GLOBE WAY, BALBOA PARK. 619-234-5623. MAY 18 THROUGH JUNE 18.


Our Town Clairemont Act One, “a small, deter- mined community theater,” stages Thornton Wilder’s spare, deeply resonant drama about what matters most in life.Though a small town, Grover’s Corners holds a mirror up to all of us.


NORTHMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 4324 CLAIREMONT MESA BL., CLAIREMONT. APRIL 28 THROUGH MAY 6.


Picnic Oceanside Theatre Company stages William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize-win- ning drama about Labor Day week- end in a small Kansas town, 1950s, and the struggles of single women. “Lonelilness, love, beauty, and aging become even more askew when the rebellious drifter Hal enters the scene.” Ted Lieb directs. SUNSHINE BROOKS THEATRE, 217 N. COAST HWY., OCEANSIDE. 760-433- 8900. MAY 5 THROUGH MAY 21.


The Revolutionists Moxie Theatre presents Lauren Gunderson’s “brutal comedic quar- tet” about for “very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror” (1793-1794): Olympe De Gouge, Charlotte Corday, Marie Antoinette,


and Marianne Angelle. Jennifier Eve Thorn directs. MOXIE THEATRE, 6663 EL CAJON BL., SUITE N, ROLANDO. 858-598-7620. MAY 27 THROUGH JUNE 18.


Silent Sky Lamb’s Players stages Lauren Gunderson’s drama, “part celes- tial romance, part true story,” about Henrietta Swan Levitt and the forgotten women of Harvard Observatory who weren’t allowed to use the telescope. Their studies of photographic plates led to major discoveries — by males. Robert Smyth directs. LAMB’S PLAYERS THEATRE, 1142 OR- ANGE AVE., CORONADO. 619-437-0600. APRIL 28 THROUGH MAY 28.


Ten Minute Madness X North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe presents eight new short plays by playwrights from around the county. Presented by an ensem- ble cast, the plays cover drama, com-


edy, and with a message. NORTH PARK VAUDEVILLE AND CANDY SHOPPE, 2031 EL CAJON BL., NORTH PARK. 619-220-8663. MAY 5 THROUGH MAY 21.


The Wizard of Oz San Diego Junior Theatre presents the family favorite. Dorothy Gale sings that happiness awaits her over the rainbow. A tornado shoots her to Oz. She follows the Yellow Brick Rd., joined by Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion, and learns that, rainbows to the contrary, “there’s no place like home.” SAN DIEGO JUNIOR THEATRE, 1650 EL PRADO, SUITE 208, BALBOA PARK. 619- 239-8355. APRIL 28 THROUGH MAY 14.


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