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City Lights Theater Company
529 S 2nd StSan Jose, CA 95112
Upcoming Shows
The 1940s Radio Hour
It’s December 21, 1942, and The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade is broadcasting live from the Hotel Astor. Join the studio audience for a delightful, musical...
Based on a Totally True Story
Meet Ethan Keene, a struggling young playwright whose day job is writing The Flash for DC Comics. Then his world flips upside down when a...
Arsenic and Old Lace
Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. It turns out Abby and Martha...
Dream Hou$e
Two Latina sisters are appearing on a reality show to sell their family home, hoping to capitalize on the gentrification in their neighborhood. As they...
Company
Confirmed bachelor Bobby is turning 35. During a series of dinners, drinks and even a wedding, his friends show him the ups and downs of...
Review: JAMES BOND FOREVER (SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY) at Davies Symphony Hall
What happens when over 60 years of cinematic espionage is celebrated through the power of a live orchestra? The San Francisco Symphony's James Bond Forever concert reminds us that some of the most iconic moments in film history begin not with dialogue, but with a song. …
Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC Strikes A Resonant, Political Chord at Broadway San Jose
The hills are indeed alive with The Sound of Music as the national touring production played to an enthusiastic, sold-out crowd at Broadway San Jose on opening night. Boasting a stellar cast and rich production values, the show tells the real-life story of Maria (the marvelous Cayleigh Capaldi), a s…
Review: HAIRSPRAY at SF Playhouse
What did our critic think of HAIRSPRAY at SF Playhouse?…
Review: AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER & KELLI O'HARA at San Francisco Symphony
An Evening with Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara at the San Francisco Symphony is exactly the kind of event that reminds you why live performance is so magical. Inspired by the legendary 1962 television special featuring Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews, the evening celebrates not only two extraordin…
Review: HAIRSPRAY at San Francisco Playhouse
What happens when a musical you’ve seen time and time again suddenly feels brand new?…
Review: DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Orpheum Theatre
Disney's Beauty and the Beast wows San Francisco at the Orpheum Theatre with stunning design and Kyra Belle Johnson's standout Belle. Read our review!…
Review: WRECKAGE - A MUSICAL TRAGICOMEDY at San Francisco Mime Troupe
Could it possibly be that events have finally confirmed just what the San Francisco Mime Troupe has been howling at the wind for 67 years! The troupe whose shows have been called whacko, conspiratorial, commie and alarmist now find themselves leading the pack when it comes to shining a bright light …
Review: Festival Napa Valley Perfectly Blends Music, Cuisine, and the Best of Wine Country
As Festival Napa Valley celebrates its 20th Anniversary Summer Season, running July 4–19, the opening weekend perfectly illustrated why the festival has become one of the country's most sought-after cultural destinations…
BWW Review: Transcendence Theatre’s RADIO RECALL Uncorks Timeless Hits Under the Sonoma Stars
Celebrating its 15th season, Transcendence Theatre Company continues its mission to create extraordinary experiences that inspire all to live life to the fullest. Radio Recall accomplishes just that. …
Review: THE EMPLOYEE DHARMA HANDBOOK at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
There’s an HR nightmare threatening a critical launch and successful IPO at a Silicon Valley aerospace company. An accusation of gender discrimination fuels the World Premiere of Geetha Reddy’s smart and funny The Employee Dharma Handbook marking the kickoff of TheatreWorks 56th season. …
Past Shows
Lights Up! 2026 at City Lights Theater Company
New plays. Unforgettable stories. And your feedback. City Lights Theater Company's annual “Lights Up!” festival is back, with dynamic staged readings of two new scripts,...
anthropology
In her immaculate Silicon Valley home office, Merril believes in patterns and systems. But her life as a hotshot coder and AI expert falls apart...
Dial M for Murder
Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, who wrote City Lights’ 2015 hit Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, now brings us a new version of a celebrated mystery that inspired...
Running After Shadows
Morgan Collins is on a culinary journey. He used to buy his cookware at the 99-cent store, and is now a budding gourmet and an...
A Rockin' Fundraiser
Get ready for an evening that’s equal parts music, mingling and pure City Lights spirit. Drop in anytime for this relaxed, comeandgo fundraiser featuring live...
Not A Genuine Black Man
In 1971, Fair Housing advocates considered San Leandro one of the most racist suburbs in America. CBS aired a special on the situation. The U.S....
Over the River and Through the Woods
A single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey, Nick still sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. Then he’s offered a dream job...
Ren's Eleventh Annual Winter Wonderland
Catch the seasonal spirit with singer Ren Geisick and her band! Fresh off the glow of releasing her second album, “The Place I Planned To...
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Take Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire story and mix it up in the style of Mel Brooks and Monty Python. Then enjoy a lightning-fast, gender-bending comedy...
City Lights Presents: Spooky Lights Live!
This October, Spooky Lights returns with a brand-new batch of eerie short plays written by the devilishly clever Lauren Doyle. And for the first time ever, we’re...
Head Over Heels
This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the infectious music of the iconic ’80s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, featuring hit songs including “Vacation” and...
An Evening with AJ Jaffari
With his soulful voice and warm stage presence, singer/songwriter, producer and actor AJ Jaffari has delighted City Lights audiences in Kinky Boots and Big Band concerts with...
Lights Up! 2025 at City Lights Theatre Company
City Lights' annual Lights Up! festival returns on Saturday, June 14, bringing bold new voices and unforgettable stories to the City Lights stage. This in-person...
The Cake
Della and her North Carolina bakery are renowned for creating the most delicious, beautiful cakes. So it’s no surprise that when the girl she helped...
The Mousetrap
Trapped in Monkswell Manor by a snowstorm, a sundry group of guests and staff are also ensnared in a chilling web of fear after a...
Mrs. Winchester, or, A Gun in the First Act
In a sprawling mansion of her own design, Sarah Winchester navigates a complex legacy of guns, grief, and ghosts. She’s lost everything of value —...
I Heart City Lights: A Benefit Concert with Nineteen
We had so much fun that we’re doing it again! City Lights is once again teaming up with Nineteen, San Jose’s professional Big Band, to present...
In Love and Warcraft
Meet Evie, a college senior and gamer who’s a master at both online role-playing and real-life ghostwriting — her side hustle is writing love letters...
Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War
In 2014, City Lights marked the 100-year anniversary of the World War I “Christmas Truce” with a world premiere that drew crowds and raves. Now Truce:...
Ren's Tenth Annual Winter Wonderland
It’s time for the 10th annual Ren’s Winter Wonderland shows at City Lights! Whether you have made this a yearly tradition or are discovering this...
Nineteen: A Big Band Holiday Revue
Our friends from Nineteen, San Jose’s professional Big Band, are throwing a fundraising concert to benefit City Lights! On Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m.,...
An Inspector Calls
As the well-to-do Birlings celebrate an engagement in the family, the festive evening is suddenly punctured by an uninvited visitor: an inspector looking into the...
Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. As their...
Lights Up! 2024: A Festival of New Works
Back onstage for the first time since the Covid outbreak, our annual “Lights Up!” festival of new plays returns on Sunday, Aug. 4. The lineup...
Concert Series: Cory Cullinan and Riley Max
Join us on Sunday, June 16, at 7 p.m. for a special Father’s Day concert with father and daughter recording artists Cory Cullinan and Riley...
Not a Genuine Black Man
In 1971, Fair Housing advocates considered San Leandro one of the most racist suburbs in America. CBS aired a special on the situation. The U.S....
Clyde's
Past the long line of truckers waiting outside, Clyde’s Sandwich Shop is more than just a greasy spoon. It serves up a chance at redemption...
City Lights Theater Company's 2024 Annual Fundraising Gala
Dynamic live performances, a sit-down dinner catered by Il Fornaio, and stellar actors giving musical performances and telling their favorite theater stories: It's all happening...
King Liz
Veteran sports agents know they have to fight to stay on top. If you’re a woman, it’s doubly hard. With an elite client roster and...
Nora: A Doll's House
The more things change, the more they stay the same in this bold new retelling of the classic A Doll’s House, which sets the story in...
Nineteen Big Band: TV & Movie Themes
There have been so many memorable TV shows and movies over the years whose musical themes have been as memorable as the show themselves. And...
Ken Ludwig's The Game's Afoot
This hilarious whodunit may best be described as Blithe Spirit meets The Hollow meets The Play That Goes Wrong … with glittering Art Deco flair. Set during the Christmas holidays in...
Ren's Ninth Annual Winter Wonderland
Ren Geisick is a jazz singer turned singer/songwriter from Silicon Valley. Her first album, “Ren, Love Song” produced by Jesse Harris, was released in 2017, followed...
Toxic
Five years after a student opened fire at an exclusive private high school, killing several students and a beloved teacher, the survivors gather for the...
Kinky Boots
Charlie Price has reluctantly inherited his father’s shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying to live up to his father’s legacy and...
Rock Cabaret for B.A.D. Musical Theatre
City Lights Theater hosts a fundraising cabaret for B.A.D. Musical Theatre. The event features a live band and local actors belting out songs from rock...
The River Bride
Because this Brazilian fable will transport you to a world so close, but so far.Because the Houston Press called it “an incredibly original and affecting night at...
Nineteen: A Tribute to Al Jarreau
Join Nineteen, San Jose’s professional big band, as they treat you to the sounds of the late great Al Jarreau, an iconic American R&B, soul...
Blithe Spirit
Just like the mischievous ghost Elvira, Noël Coward’s 1941 comedy keeps coming back for a reason. The oft-revived Blithe Spirit, delightful as ever, takes up residence...
Fun Home
When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament...
Waiting for Next
Frank is in a school parking lot waiting for his parents (like he always is) when he meets Marcus, who is also waiting (like he...
Vietgone
Its 1975, Saigon has fallen, and Quang and Tong should be grateful theyve made it to the United States. But he lost his wife and...
The Hollow
Theres a wife and a husband, a mistress and a movie star, and plenty of other people tangled up in romantic situations, but only one...
Native Gardens
Pablo, a high-powered lawyer, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, are realizing the American dream when they purchase a house next door to...
Coded
Jerrie was on her way to being a leader in the gaming industry, until a competitor armed with a legion of internet trolls launched an...
Coded
Jerrie was on her way to being a leader in the gaming industry, until a competitor armed with a legion of internet trolls launched an...
Stage Kiss
What happens when life and art get a little too cozy? Part backstage comedy and part offbeat love story, Stage Kiss follows two actors with...
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley
Two holiday seasons ago, City Lights audiences were charmed by the Pride and Prejudice sequel Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. But while the Bennet sisters...
Cabaret
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget...
Silent Sky
For Henrietta Leavitt, heaven is the night sky. When shes hired by the Harvard Observatory, doors seem to be opening for her. But its 1900,...
Eurydice
The myth has been told and retold for centuries. Grief-stricken Orpheus travels to the underworld, where he learns he can rescue his wife, Eurydiceif he...
Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Embracing a period of British history that’s ripe with gender & social intrigue, Kynaston, the most famous portrayer of female roles in seventeenth century London,...
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Pickleball Hillbarn Theatre (8/20-9/13) |
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WRECKAGE: A Musical Tragicomedy San Francisco Mime Troupe (7/03-9/07) |
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Dev Cuny’s Assigned at Birth: My Funeral Part 1 The Marsh Berkeley (8/19-8/22) |
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Pearl Ong’s Night Driver The Marsh Berkeley (7/11-8/08) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (7/07-7/18) |
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Help Is On The Way: Broadway & Beyond – 32nd Anniversary Concert & Gala Marines' Memorial Theatre (8/02-8/02) |
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Josh Kornbluth’s What Is To Be Done?: Fighting Fascism and Depression The Marsh (6/19-7/31) |
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Private Lives by Noel Coward Santa Cruz Shakespeare (9/04-10/04) |
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Hannah Gould’s Divorced: The Musical! The Marsh Berkeley (8/27-8/29) |
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Sara Felder’s Class Act The Marsh (8/12-8/15) |