By Jonas Fredrickson
San Jose has a reputation for being a updated community on the forefront 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 attractive and acoustically shocking places round the city, especially in San Jose's South First Area District where several cultural activities and centers are found.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
Founded in 1980 as the first of the professional 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 types 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 venue in the heart of downtown San Jose and surrounded by fine and casual restaurants, premiere shopping and the city's best dives, wine bars and music scene. There is not a need to leave the Rep however , with the Curtain Call Patron Lounge and free music after performances on selected nights. The Rep is amongst the premiere theaters in San Jose for a very elegant experience.
City Lights Theatre Company
San Jose Repertory Theatre
Founded in 1980 as the first of the professional 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 types 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 venue in the heart of downtown San Jose and surrounded by fine and casual restaurants, premiere shopping and the city's best dives, wine bars and music scene. There is not a need to leave the Rep however , with the Curtain Call Patron Lounge and free music after performances on selected nights. The Rep is amongst the premiere theaters in San Jose for a very elegant experience.
City Lights Theatre Company
Though the Town Lights Theater Company only performs 6 plays per season, each offering is purposely selected to epitomize the Theater's reputation as modern, inventive, radical and thought inciting. Each play runs for about a month, with the season running from January to Aug. Plays are performed in a personal 100 seat locale and are commonly modern and edgy, even if interpreting classics like Hamlet and Chicago. Other offerings are often Pulitzer Prize winning plays hinged on tragedy and victory, like Tracy Letts ' August: Osage County, which chronicles a family's journey through dysfunction and reconnection to the backdrop of agricultural Americana. The Town Lights Theater Company tries hard to offer the very best 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 aspiring theater lovers.
The Stage
Promoted as the very best in Off-Broadway San Jose theaters, The Stage has a clear mission to present original works with a spotlight on recent programming, American literature and historical classics that explore the many facets of the condition of being human. The Stage is now 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 six 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 September to June, compromised of 120 performances and 10 prepared ?talkbacks? In its 200 seat, mid-sized theatre facility.
The Tabard Theatre Company
With an objective of providing entertainment for all audiences with an interest in San Jose theaters, the Tabard Theatre Company also has a strong focus upon community participation. The theatre continually gives a portion of profits to charity, organizes food and clothing drives, and outreach programs targeted at making theatre affordable for people that may not generally experience theatre. The Tabard Theatre produces four to six main productions per season, as well as offering workshops for children and adults. Seasons that were seeing at the Tabard Theatre Comapny are Antigone, The Little Prince, Neil Simon's "Fools", Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and A Christmas Carol, amongst others. The Tabarad Theatre also hosts some of San Jose's best live Jazz and plenty of other performing arts events seating over 120 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 finest concert halls in San Jose at the California Theatre. The Symphony Silicon Valley performs classic works as well as more recent arrangements, while also displaying smaller group arrangements and soloists. The symphony Silicon Valley is the premiere ensemble in San Jose and performs with world class talent and direction.
California Theatre
First open in 1927 as one of the first concert halls in San Jose, it was closed for decades be
The Stage
Promoted as the very best in Off-Broadway San Jose theaters, The Stage has a clear mission to present original works with a spotlight on recent programming, American literature and historical classics that explore the many facets of the condition of being human. The Stage is now 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 six 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 September to June, compromised of 120 performances and 10 prepared ?talkbacks? In its 200 seat, mid-sized theatre facility.
The Tabard Theatre Company
With an objective of providing entertainment for all audiences with an interest in San Jose theaters, the Tabard Theatre Company also has a strong focus upon community participation. The theatre continually gives a portion of profits to charity, organizes food and clothing drives, and outreach programs targeted at making theatre affordable for people that may not generally experience theatre. The Tabard Theatre produces four to six main productions per season, as well as offering workshops for children and adults. Seasons that were seeing at the Tabard Theatre Comapny are Antigone, The Little Prince, Neil Simon's "Fools", Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and A Christmas Carol, amongst others. The Tabarad Theatre also hosts some of San Jose's best live Jazz and plenty of other performing arts events seating over 120 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 finest concert halls in San Jose at the California Theatre. The Symphony Silicon Valley performs classic works as well as more recent arrangements, while also displaying smaller group arrangements and soloists. The symphony Silicon Valley is the premiere ensemble in San Jose and performs with world class talent and direction.
California Theatre
First open in 1927 as one of the first concert halls in San Jose, it was closed for decades be
With an objective of providing entertainment for all audiences with an interest in San Jose theaters, the Tabard Theatre Company also has a strong focus upon community participation. The theatre continually gives a portion of profits to charity, organizes food and clothing drives, and outreach programs targeted at making theatre affordable for people that may not generally experience theatre. The Tabard Theatre produces four to six main productions per season, as well as offering workshops for children and adults. Seasons that were seeing at the Tabard Theatre Comapny are Antigone, The Little Prince, Neil Simon's "Fools", Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and A Christmas Carol, amongst others. The Tabarad Theatre also hosts some of San Jose's best live Jazz and plenty of other performing arts events seating over 120 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 finest concert halls in San Jose at the California Theatre. The Symphony Silicon Valley performs classic works as well as more recent arrangements, while also displaying smaller group arrangements and soloists. The symphony Silicon Valley is the premiere ensemble in San Jose and performs with world class talent and direction.
California Theatre
First open in 1927 as one of the first concert halls in San Jose, it was closed for decades before a $75 million renovation in 2004. The theatre is at present a modern facility seating 1100 guests,. Reworked to capture its original 1920?s style. Located in San Jose's South First Area District (Sofa), the California Theatre is in the center of San Jose's humanities and culture scene, diagonally 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 musical and training sessions. The CMT casts all that audition to plug 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. Contemporary performances such as Seussical, Doctor Dolittle, Xanadu and Bye, Bye Birdie. The CMT is committed to promoting diversity within its players and cultivating the love of theatre inside all interested children.
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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 finest concert halls in San Jose at the California Theatre. The Symphony Silicon Valley performs classic works as well as more recent arrangements, while also displaying smaller group arrangements and soloists. The symphony Silicon Valley is the premiere ensemble in San Jose and performs with world class talent and direction.
California Theatre
First open in 1927 as one of the first concert halls in San Jose, it was closed for decades before a $75 million renovation in 2004. The theatre is at present a modern facility seating 1100 guests,. Reworked to capture its original 1920?s style. Located in San Jose's South First Area District (Sofa), the California Theatre is in the center of San Jose's humanities and culture scene, diagonally 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 musical and training sessions. The CMT casts all that audition to plug 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. Contemporary performances such as Seussical, Doctor Dolittle, Xanadu and Bye, Bye Birdie. The CMT is committed to promoting diversity within its players and cultivating the love of theatre inside all interested children.
About the Author:
Jonas Fredrickson has been interested in hot spots in San Jose for several years. He has written op-eds and editorial pieces about attractions in San Jose for many online publications. For more information about San Jose theaters feel free to visit his site.