San Jose has a reputation for being a updated community on the front line of technology. Equalling their appreciation for 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 beautiful and acoustically surprising places around the town, especially in San Jose's South First Area District where several cultural activities and centers are found.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
Set up in 1980 as the first of the professional theaters in San Jose, the Rep has endured and grown into a longtime theatre known for its excellence across the country. The Rep has a rep for every kind of theatre, from the classics to edgy recent works. The Rep has received many 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 venue in the guts of downtown San Jose and surrounded by fine and casual cafes, premiere shopping and the city's best nightclubs, wine bars and music scene. There isn't a need to leave the Rep nevertheless with the Curtain Call Patron Lounge and free music after performances on selected nights. The Rep is one of the premiere theaters in San Jose for a truly sublime experience.
City Lights Theatre Company
Though the City Lights Theater Company only performs six plays per season, each offering is deliberately selected to epitomize the Theater's reputation as modern, innovative, unconventional and thought inciting. Each play runs for roughly a month, with the season running from January to August. Plays are performed in an intimate 100 seat venue and are often modern and edgy, even if interpreting classics like Hamlet and Chicago. Other offerings are frequently 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 background of agricultural Americana. The Town Lights Theater Company tries hard to offer the best in modern theater and modern modifications, as well as maintaining themselves as a theater space for promising and up and coming designers, technicians, 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 historical classics that explore the many facets 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 particularly Tenders in the Fog, for which The Stage received 6 Dean Goodman Choice Awards. The Stage offers dramas, musicals, comedies and more, with a spotlight on promoting theatre and art with a 5-play season that runs from September to June, compromised of 120 performances and 10 scheduled ?talkbacks? In its 200 seat, mid-sized theatre facility.
The Tabard Theatre Company
With a goal of providing entertainment for all audiences with a deep interest in San Jose theaters, the Tabard Theatre Company also has a powerful focus on community inclusion. The theatre frequently gives a portion of profits to charity, organizes food and clothing drives, plus outreach programs directed at making theatre affordable 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 Tiny Prince, Neil Simon's "Fools", Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and A Yuletide Carol, among others. The Tabarad Theatre also hosts some of San Jose's best live Jazz and plenty of other performing humanities events seating over 120 guests in its venue.
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 contemporary arrangements, while also showcasing 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 one of the first concert halls in San Jose, it was closed for dozens of years before a $75 million rebuilding in 2004. The theatre is currently a modern facility seating 1100 guests,. Re-designed to capture its original 1920?s style. Found in San Jose's South First Area District (Sofa), the California Theatre is in the middle of San Jose's humanities and culture scene, opposite to The Stage, Institute of Modern Art, numerous bistros, bars, jazz clubs, and smaller music locales.
Children's Musical Theatre San Jose
The CMT was launched in 1968 and is among the nations biggest youth musical and training sessions. The CMT casts all that audition to promote an amiable and nurturing atmosphere that fosters children's interest and evolution in theatre. Tickets can be bought online over the telephone and the Convention Center and the Montogomery Theatrebox offices. Contemporary performances such as Seussical, Doctor Dolittle, Xanadu and Bye, Bye Birdie. The CMT has a commitment to promoting variety within its players and cultivating the love of theatre inside all interested youngsters.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
Set up in 1980 as the first of the professional theaters in San Jose, the Rep has endured and grown into a longtime theatre known for its excellence across the country. The Rep has a rep for every kind of theatre, from the classics to edgy recent works. The Rep has received many 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 venue in the guts of downtown San Jose and surrounded by fine and casual cafes, premiere shopping and the city's best nightclubs, wine bars and music scene. There isn't a need to leave the Rep nevertheless with the Curtain Call Patron Lounge and free music after performances on selected nights. The Rep is one of the premiere theaters in San Jose for a truly sublime experience.
City Lights Theatre Company
Though the City Lights Theater Company only performs six plays per season, each offering is deliberately selected to epitomize the Theater's reputation as modern, innovative, unconventional and thought inciting. Each play runs for roughly a month, with the season running from January to August. Plays are performed in an intimate 100 seat venue and are often modern and edgy, even if interpreting classics like Hamlet and Chicago. Other offerings are frequently 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 background of agricultural Americana. The Town Lights Theater Company tries hard to offer the best in modern theater and modern modifications, as well as maintaining themselves as a theater space for promising and up and coming designers, technicians, 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 historical classics that explore the many facets 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 particularly Tenders in the Fog, for which The Stage received 6 Dean Goodman Choice Awards. The Stage offers dramas, musicals, comedies and more, with a spotlight on promoting theatre and art with a 5-play season that runs from September to June, compromised of 120 performances and 10 scheduled ?talkbacks? In its 200 seat, mid-sized theatre facility.
The Tabard Theatre Company
With a goal of providing entertainment for all audiences with a deep interest in San Jose theaters, the Tabard Theatre Company also has a powerful focus on community inclusion. The theatre frequently gives a portion of profits to charity, organizes food and clothing drives, plus outreach programs directed at making theatre affordable 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 Tiny Prince, Neil Simon's "Fools", Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and A Yuletide Carol, among others. The Tabarad Theatre also hosts some of San Jose's best live Jazz and plenty of other performing humanities events seating over 120 guests in its venue.
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 contemporary arrangements, while also showcasing 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 one of the first concert halls in San Jose, it was closed for dozens of years before a $75 million rebuilding in 2004. The theatre is currently a modern facility seating 1100 guests,. Re-designed to capture its original 1920?s style. Found in San Jose's South First Area District (Sofa), the California Theatre is in the middle of San Jose's humanities and culture scene, opposite to The Stage, Institute of Modern Art, numerous bistros, bars, jazz clubs, and smaller music locales.
Children's Musical Theatre San Jose
The CMT was launched in 1968 and is among the nations biggest youth musical and training sessions. The CMT casts all that audition to promote an amiable and nurturing atmosphere that fosters children's interest and evolution in theatre. Tickets can be bought online over the telephone and the Convention Center and the Montogomery Theatrebox offices. Contemporary performances such as Seussical, Doctor Dolittle, Xanadu and Bye, Bye Birdie. The CMT has a commitment to promoting variety within its players and cultivating the love of theatre inside all interested youngsters.
About the Author:
Jonas Fredrickson has had an interest in hot spots in San Jose for a number of years. He has written op-eds and editorial pieces about attractions in San Jose for many online publications. For full information about San Jose theaters please visit his site.
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