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, countless theatres and more, all performing at pretty and acoustically stunning locations around the town, especially in San Jose's South First Area District where many 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 nation. 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 nominations 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 location 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 is not a need to leave the Rep but 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 truly chic experience.

City Lights Theatre Company

Though the Town Lights Theater Company only performs six plays per season, each offering is deliberately chosen to exemplify the Theater's reputation as modern, inventive, unconventional and thought provoking. Each play runs for about a month, with the season running from Jan to August. Plays are performed in a personal 100 seat locale 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 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 best in modern theater and modern adaptions, 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 alongside a spotlight on up to date programming, American literature and consequential classics that explore the various angles 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 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 booked ?talkbacks? In its 200 seat, mid scale theatre facility.

The Tabard Theatre Company

With a goal of providing entertainment for all audiences with an interest in San Jose theaters, the Tabard Theatre Company also has a robust focus upon community inclusion. The theatre regularly donates a portion of profits to charity, organizes food and clothing drives, and outreach programs targeted at making theatre cheap for those that may not typically experience theatre. The Tabard Theatre produces 4 to 6 main productions per season, as well as offering workshops for adults and kids. 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 in the 100-150 guest capacity location.

Symphony Silicon Valley, at the California Theatre

When the San Jose Symphony melted 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 demonstrating 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 years before a $75 million rebuilding in 2004. The theatre is currently 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 arts and culture scene, diagonally opposite to The Stage, Institute of Modern Art, many diners, bars, jazz clubs, and smaller music venues.

Children's Musical Theatre San Jose

The CMT was launched in 1968 and is one of the country's largest youth performances and training programmes. The CMT casts all that audition to push an amiable 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. Recent 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.