Sabtu, 17 Agustus 2013

San Jose Magnificent Theaters

By Jonas Fredrickson


San Jose is famous for being a modern community on the forefront of technology. Equalling their appreciation for the high tech is San Jose's residents appreciation of enterteinment. San Jose is home to a symphony, numerous playhouses and more, all performing at attractive and acoustically shocking venues around the city, particularly 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 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 contemporary works. The Rep has received many accolades in its 30+ year history, including nominations 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 gorgeous venue in the heart of downtown San Jose and encircled by fine and casual cafes, premiere shopping and the city's best dives, 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 probably one of the premiere theaters in San Jose for a really elegant experience.

City Lights Theatre Company

Although the City Lights Theater Company only performs 6 plays per season, each offering is deliberately chosen to epitomize the Theater's reputation as modern, cutting edge, novel and thought inciting. Each play runs for around a month, with the season running from January to August. Plays are performed in a private 100 seat venue and are usually modern and edgy, even when interpreting classics like Hamlet and Chicago. Other offerings are frequently 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 background of rustic Americana. The City Lights Theater Company strives 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 aspiring theater lovers.

The Stage

Promoted as the finest in Off-Broadway San Jose theaters, The Stage has a clear mission to present original works with attention on up to date programming, American literature and historic classics that explore the various angles 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 especially Tenders in the Mist, 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 prepared ?talkbacks? In its 200 seat, mid scale theatre facility.

The Tabard Theatre Company

With a goal of providing entertainment for all audiences with an abiding interest in San Jose theaters, the Tabard Theatre Company also has a robust focus upon community inclusion. The theatre frequently donates a portion of profits to charity, organizes food and clothing drives, and outreach programs targeted at making theatre reasonable for those who may not generally experience theatre. The Tabard Theatre produces 4 to 6 main productions per season, as well as offering workshops for children and grownups. 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 Xmas Carol, among 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 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 showcasing smaller group arrangements and soloists. The symphony Silicon Valley is the premiere ensemble in San Jose and performs with top 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 refurbishment in 2004. The theatre is now a modern facility seating 1100 guests,. Redesigned to capture its original 1920?s style. Found in San Jose's South First Area District (Sofa), the California Theatre is in the center of San Jose's humanities and culture scene, adjacent to The Stage, Institute of Contemporary Art, many bistros, bars, jazz clubs, and smaller music locales.

Children's Musical Theatre San Jose

The CMT was built in 1968 and is among the nations largest 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 are available online over the phone and the Convention Center and the Montogomery Theatrebox offices. Current performances include Seussical, Doctor Dolittle, Xanadu and Bye, Bye Birdie. The CMT has a commitment to promoting variety inside its players and cultivating the love of theatre within all interested children.




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