529 S 2nd St
San Jose, CA 95112
City Lights Theater Company is a theatre in San Jose, CA.
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 trip back in time, featuring “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “I’ll Be Seeing You” and other ‘40s favorites. All the while...
What’s as wonderful as 12 days of Christmas? The 12th annual “Ren’s Winter Wonderland” concert at City Lights. One of our favorite seasonal traditions is welcoming jazz singer & songwriter Ren Geisick to our stage with her band. You’ll enjoy a warm, family-friendly evening of...
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 Hollywood producer wants to turn one of his plays into a big-budget horror movie. With that tasty carrot clouding his vision, Ethan struggles...
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 already knew about the dead man in their parlor: They put him there. Between his aunts’ penchant for poisoning wine, a...
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 perform for the camera, this comedy with a twist starts to slip into the surreal. One sister grapples with turmoil in their...
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 commitment until he is forced to reexamine his own path. What is truly being alive? This groundbreaking comedy won six Tony Awards, and...
ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME: THE BRITNEY SPEARS FAIRY TALE MUSICAL by Ray of Light Theatre at the Barbary Stage brings down the house on opening night with a electric dancing and high octane vocals.…
THE LION IN WINTER roars onto the stage at Altarena Playhouse. Political intrigue, succession battles, and holiday festivities are all wrapped up in a soap opera of family squabbles and topped off with a love triangle.…
A child requests her favorite fairy tale, and The Narrator puts out a call for the players to assemble on set to re-enact the story verbatim, as it’s been told since inception, no changes.…
What did our critic think of A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD at New Conservatory Theatre Center?…
What happens when one of America's most recognizable First Ladies becomes a foul-mouthed, cabaret-obsessed, and completely unhinged theatrical sensation?…
A weary Donte Coleman sits in his Western Addition family home that he’s just listed for sale. In this well constructed memory play, scenes from his childhood burst to life in SFBATCO’s homage to the golden age of 1950’s San Francisco’s Fillmore district. Local legend Daryl V. Jones is the e…
What did our critic think of DRACULA at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley?…
What did our critic think of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Broadway San Jose?…
What did our critic think of GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! at Hillbarn Theatre?…
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley fills the Live Oak Theater with cheeky humor. As the characters treat serious matters like frippery, and trivial items with seriousness, the tone is set early for a romping good time.…
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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 all-out assault on her, and she was forced into hiding. Now, shes back with a hand-picked team and a plan to revolutionize virtual-reality...
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 a history. After theyre cast opposite each other again, the lines start to blur. When I kissed you just now, did it feel like an actor...
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 were bantering, dancing and falling in love, what was going on downstairs? In the delightful new companion play The...
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 all their troubles at the cabaret. With the Emcees bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady and tumultuous life of...
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, and women arent even allowed to look through the telescope. They must chart the stars from photographs and keep their ideas to themselves...
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 doesnt look back on the way up. Now, we see the story through Eurydices eyes. City Lights innovative new production combines...
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, is brought to ruin when King Charles II changes the law to allow women to act. His journey embarks down a road of...
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The Madness of Lady Bright Venue: iMPACt Center for Art & Dance (11/06-11/15) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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Lena Hall: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (11/06-11/07) |
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The Secret Garden Marin Shakespeare Company’s Downtown Theatre (11/27-12/20) |
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Knockoff Broadway: The Improvised Musical All Out Comedy Theater (7/25-12/26) |
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Come From Away Revival Hall (11/13-12/06) |
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Company City Lights Theater Company (7/15-8/22) |
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Brian Copeland in 'Not a Genuine Black Man' - BENEFIT for CHRS Marines Memorial Theatre (11/21-11/21) |
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Arsenic and Old Lace City Lights Theater Company (3/11-4/11) |
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The Secret in the Wings Theatre Lunatico (10/10-11/01) |
