San Jose is famous for being a updated community on the forefront of technology. Equalling their appreciation for the high-tech is San Jose's residents appreciation for theatre and music. San Jose is home to a symphony, numerous playhouses and more, all performing at pretty and acoustically shocking venues around the town, particularly in San Jose's South First Area District where different cultural activities and centers are found.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
Set up in 1980 as the first of the pro theaters in San Jose, the Rep has endured and grown into an established theatre recognized for its excellence across the land. The Rep has a rep for every kind of theatre, from the classics to edgy modern 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 Yearly Putnam County Spelling Bee. The Rep is a pretty location in the center of downtown San Jose and surrounded by fine and casual restaurants, 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 one of the premiere theaters in San Jose for a really chic experience.
City Lights Theatre Company
Though the Town Lights Theater Company only performs 6 plays per season, each offering is purposively chosen to epitomize the Theater's reputation as modern, inventive, radical and thought inciting. Each play runs for around a month, with the season running from January to Aug. Plays are performed in an intimate 100 seat locale and are commonly modern and edgy, even if translating classics like Hamlet and Chicago. Other offerings are often Pulitzer Prize winning plays hinged on crisis and victory, like Tracy Letts ' August: Osage County, which chronicles a family's journey through dysfunction and reconnection to the backdrop of rural Americana. The Town Lights Theater Company strives to offer the best in modern theater and modern adaptions, as well as maintaining themselves as a theater space for promising and up-and-coming designers, experts, actors, directors and all hopeful theater lovers.
The Stage
Billed as the 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 numerous facets of the condition of being human. 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 Mist, for which The Stage received 6 Dean Goodman Choice Awards. The Stage offers dramas, musicals, comedies and more, with attention 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, mid scale theatre facility.
The Tabard Theatre Company
With a target of providing entertainment for all audiences with an abiding interest in San Jose theaters, the Tabard Theatre Company also has a powerful focus on community inclusion. The theatre continually donates a part of profits to charity, organizes food and clothing drives, and outreach programs targeted at making theatre affordable for people that may not typically experience theatre. The Tabard Theatre produces four to six main productions per season, in addition to offering workshops for children and adults. Past season productions have included Antigone, The Little Prince, Neil Simon's "Fools", Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and A Yuletide Carol, amongst others. The Tabarad Theatre also hosts some of San Jose's best live Jazz and many other performing humanities events alocating more than 100 guests in its location.
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 best 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 among the first concert halls in San Jose, the California Theatre was closed for dozens of years before a $75 million refurbishment in 2004. The theatre is currently 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 center of San Jose's humanities and culture scene, opposite to The Stage, Institute of Contemporary Art, countless restaurants, bars, jazz clubs, and smaller music locales.
Children's Musical Theatre San Jose
The CMT was built in 1968 and is among the country's largest youth performances and training programmes. The CMT casts all that audition to promote an amiable and nurturing atmosphere that fosters children's interest and evolution in theatre. Tickets are available online over the phone and the Convention Center and the Montogomery Theatrebox offices. Current performances such as Seussical, Doctor Dolittle, Xanadu and Bye, Bye Birdie. The CMT has commitment to promoting variety inside its players and cultivating the love of theatre within all interested kids.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
Set up in 1980 as the first of the pro theaters in San Jose, the Rep has endured and grown into an established theatre recognized for its excellence across the land. The Rep has a rep for every kind of theatre, from the classics to edgy modern 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 Yearly Putnam County Spelling Bee. The Rep is a pretty location in the center of downtown San Jose and surrounded by fine and casual restaurants, 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 one of the premiere theaters in San Jose for a really chic experience.
City Lights Theatre Company
Though the Town Lights Theater Company only performs 6 plays per season, each offering is purposively chosen to epitomize the Theater's reputation as modern, inventive, radical and thought inciting. Each play runs for around a month, with the season running from January to Aug. Plays are performed in an intimate 100 seat locale and are commonly modern and edgy, even if translating classics like Hamlet and Chicago. Other offerings are often Pulitzer Prize winning plays hinged on crisis and victory, like Tracy Letts ' August: Osage County, which chronicles a family's journey through dysfunction and reconnection to the backdrop of rural Americana. The Town Lights Theater Company strives to offer the best in modern theater and modern adaptions, as well as maintaining themselves as a theater space for promising and up-and-coming designers, experts, actors, directors and all hopeful theater lovers.
The Stage
Billed as the 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 numerous facets of the condition of being human. 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 Mist, for which The Stage received 6 Dean Goodman Choice Awards. The Stage offers dramas, musicals, comedies and more, with attention 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, mid scale theatre facility.
The Tabard Theatre Company
With a target of providing entertainment for all audiences with an abiding interest in San Jose theaters, the Tabard Theatre Company also has a powerful focus on community inclusion. The theatre continually donates a part of profits to charity, organizes food and clothing drives, and outreach programs targeted at making theatre affordable for people that may not typically experience theatre. The Tabard Theatre produces four to six main productions per season, in addition to offering workshops for children and adults. Past season productions have included Antigone, The Little Prince, Neil Simon's "Fools", Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and A Yuletide Carol, amongst others. The Tabarad Theatre also hosts some of San Jose's best live Jazz and many other performing humanities events alocating more than 100 guests in its location.
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 best 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 among the first concert halls in San Jose, the California Theatre was closed for dozens of years before a $75 million refurbishment in 2004. The theatre is currently 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 center of San Jose's humanities and culture scene, opposite to The Stage, Institute of Contemporary Art, countless restaurants, bars, jazz clubs, and smaller music locales.
Children's Musical Theatre San Jose
The CMT was built in 1968 and is among the country's largest youth performances and training programmes. The CMT casts all that audition to promote an amiable and nurturing atmosphere that fosters children's interest and evolution in theatre. Tickets are available online over the phone and the Convention Center and the Montogomery Theatrebox offices. Current performances such as Seussical, Doctor Dolittle, Xanadu and Bye, Bye Birdie. The CMT has commitment to promoting variety inside its players and cultivating the love of theatre within all interested kids.
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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