Live Performances in San Jose

By Jonas Fredrickson


San Jose is famous for being a cutting edge community on the leading edge of technology. Equalling their appreciation of the high-tech is San Jose's residents appreciation of theatre and music. San Jose is home to a symphony, numerous playhouses and more, all performing at pretty and acoustically stunning locations round the town, especially in San Jose's South First Area District where many cultural activities and centers are found.

San Jose Repertory Theatre

Founded in 1980 as the first of the pro theaters in San Jose, the Rep has endured and grown into an established theatre known for its excellence across the country. The Rep has a rep for all kinds of theatre, from the classics to edgy recent works. The Rep has received several accolades in its 30+ year history, including proposals and awards for performances of The Kite Runner, As You Lie It, Groundswell, and the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The Rep is a pretty locale in the guts of downtown San Jose and encircled by fine and casual cafes, premiere shopping and the city's best clubs, wine bars and music scene. There's not a need to leave the Rep but with the Curtain Call Patron Lounge and free onstage music after performances on selected nights. The Rep is probably one of the premiere theaters in San Jose for a really chic experience.

City Lights Theatre Company

Although the Town Lights Theater Company only performs six plays per season, each offering is purposively chosen to embody the Theater's reputation as modern, cutting edge, radical and thought inciting. Each play runs for roughly a month, with the season running from Jan to August. Plays are performed in a private 100 seat locale and are usually modern and edgy, even if interpreting classics like Hamlet and Chicago. Other offerings are often Pulitzer Prize winning plays hinged on tragedy and triumph, like Tracy Letts ' August: Osage County, which chronicles a family's journey through dysfunction and reconnection to the backdrop of rural Americana. The City Lights Theater Company strives to offer the finest in modern theater and modern modifications, as well as maintaining themselves as a theater space for promising and hot designers, engineers, actors, directors and all ambitious theater lovers.

The Stage

Billed as the very best in Off-Broadway San Jose theaters, The Stage has a clear mission to present original works with attention on recent programming, American literature and consequential classics that explore the various sides of the human state. The Stage is already in its 29th season, receiving accolades for its past performances of The Diary of Anne Frank, Glengary Glen Ross, Blade to the Heat, Inherit the Wind and especially Tenders in the Fog, for which The Stage received six Dean Goodman Choice Awards. The Stage offers dramas, musicals, comedies and more, with a focus on promoting theatre and art with a 5-play season that runs from Sep to June, compromised of 120 performances and 10 scheduled ?talkbacks? In its 200 seat, medium sized theatre facility.

The Tabard Theatre Company

With a target of providing entertainment for all audiences with a deep interest in San Jose theaters, the Tabard Theatre Company also has a robust focus upon community inclusion. The theatre frequently donates some of profits to charity, organizes food and clothing drives, and outreach programs directed at making theatre cheap for those that may not typically experience theatre. The Tabard Theatre produces 4 to six main productions per season, as well as offering workshops for adults and kids. Past season productions have included Antigone, The Small Prince, Neil Simon's "Fools", Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and A Xmas Carol, amongst others. The Tabarad Theatre also hosts some of San Jose's best live Jazz and plenty of other performing arts events alocating more than 100 guests in its locale.

Symphony Silicon Valley, at the California Theatre

When the San Jose Symphony dissolved in 2001 after a 30 year run, it was reincarnated as the Symphony Silicon Valley that performs at the one of the greatest concert halls in San Jose at the California Theatre. The Symphony Silicon Valley performs classic works as well as more recent arrangements, while also demonstrating smaller group arrangements and soloists. The symphony Silicon Valley is the premiere ensemble in San Jose and performs with first class talent and direction.

California Theatre

First open in 1927 as among the first concert halls in San Jose, the theatre was closed for years before a $75 million renovation in 2004. The theatre is at present a modern facility seating 1100 guests,. Re-designed to capture its original 1920?s style. Located in San Jose's South First Area District (Settee), the California Theatre is in the middle of San Jose's arts and culture scene, opposite to The Stage, Institute of Modern Art, numerous restaurants, bars, jazz clubs, and smaller music locales.

Children's Musical Theatre San Jose

The CMT was established in 1968 and is amongst the states biggest youth musical and training programs. The CMT casts all that audition to push a friendly and nurturing atmosphere that fosters children's interest and evolution in theatre. Tickets can be bought online over the phone and the Convention Center and the Montogomery Theatrebox offices. Current performances like Seussical, Doctor Dolittle, Xanadu and Bye, Bye Birdie. The CMT has a commitment to promoting diversity inside its artists and cultivating the love of theatre within all interested kids.




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