| 06/21/10 |
Monday Night Live! - Satire of San Jose Politics and Business
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
June 21, 2010
As if the recent California primary election wasn’t entertaining enough, San Jose Stage Company will present an evening of live comedy sketches that lampoon everything from politician to local business people.
Guest host Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr., with Special Guest San Jose Councilmember Rose Herrera, will anchor the antics. Now in its 17th year, the Monday Night Live! performance has become a staple with movers and shakers. The best part of the...
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06/02/10-
07/04/10 |
Red, White and Tuna
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
June 2-July 4, 2010
Avg. Event Rating (3.8 Stars): 
Red, White and Tuna, the South Bay Premiere of the much-anticipated third installment of the Tuna trilogy, has been called "the greatest Tuna of All!" Following The Stage’s major hits and sold-out runs of Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas, enjoy this side-splitting spoof of life in rural America. Along with Tuna’s perennial favorites, some new residents of the third-smallest town in Texas burst onto the scene as the fireworks fly at the Fourth of...
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04/07/10-
05/02/10 |
Dirty Blonde
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
April 7-May 2, 2010
Avg. Event Rating (4.8 Stars): 
Dirty Blonde is a “smart, tough and tenderhearted comedy” (-The New York Times), revealing the spirit behind the sexy celluloid facade of Mae West, famous for her uninhibited sexuality and amusing, provocative double entendres. Nominated for five Tony Awards in 2000, the South Bay Premiere chronicles her colorful career, from her beginnings in vaudeville to her legendary stature as one of the silver screen’s greatest bombshells. Called the “best new...
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02/10/10-
03/07/10 |
Rock 'N Roll
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
February 10-March 7, 2010
Avg. Event Rating (2.5 Stars): 
This extraordinary theatrical event, from four-time Tony Award winner Tom Stoppard (The Coast Of Utopia), makes its South Bay debut in a uniquely intimate production at The Stage. It’s August 1968, and Russian tanks are rolling in to Prague. Jan, a Czech student, lives for rock music; Max, the English professor, lives for Communism; and Esme, the flower child, is high. By 1990, the tanks are rolling out, the Stones are rolling in and idealism has hit the wall. Stoppard’s...
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11/18/09-
12/20/09 |
The Seafarer
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
November 18-December 20, 2009
Avg. Event Rating (4.1 Stars):
The men who make their way home for the holidays in The Seafarer aren’t exactly looking forward to sharing a cup of holiday cheer; they’re more interested in achieving blind drunkenness, a state they know well. But a stranger in their midst, in town to collect a major poker debt, forces them to take a look at their lives — and where they’ll end up if they’re not more careful about how they play the game. Dubbed “the best Irish play since the glory...
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09/23/09-
10/18/09 |
The Pillowman
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
September 23-October 18, 2009
Avg. Event Rating (3.9 Stars):
A writer whose children’s stories are darker than anything the Brothers Grimm ever dreamed up must decide whether his art is worth more than his life in this pitch-black comedy. Arrested after a series of murders mimicking those in his largely unpublished works, Katurian must defend himself and his mentally disabled brother — the only other person to have read most of his stories — against what passes for justice in an unnamed totalitarian state. In this multiple Tony...
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| 06/29/09 |
Monday Night Live
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
June 29, 2009
The Stage has subpoenaed all of the usual suspects for an evening of fun, fantasy, and fiction as we summon surprise guests to witness the hilarity, in a celebrity lineup where insiders and outsiders dodge interrogation in the show's topical sketches. This year's surprise-filled evening benefits the Stage while celebrating the hidden talents of our elected officials and the current state of political affairs. This year's cadre of anonymous writers promise to serve up a menu of...
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05/27/09-
07/05/09 |
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
May 27-July 5, 2009
Avg. Event Rating (4.3 Stars): 
There's a new tenant at Armadillo Acres, and she wreaking havoc all over Florida's most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband, the storms begin to brew. The Village Voice calls it "a show that actually lives up to the hype of its title." and, according to Broadway.com, "a sparkling, sharp irreverence lights up this musical and makes it one of the most...
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04/01/09-
04/26/09 |
Always...Patsy Cline
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
April 1-April 26, 2009
Avg. Event Rating (4.5 Stars):
This delightful musical is based on a true story about Patsy Cline’s friendship with Louise Seger, an avid fan from Houston, who befriended her and continued a correspondence with Patsy until the talented star’s untimely death. The musical includes many of Patsy’s unforgettable hits, including Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams, and Walkin’ After Midnight. The show’s title was inspired by Patsy’s letters to Louise, which were signed...
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02/11/09-
03/08/09 |
I Am My Own Wife
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
February 11-March 8, 2009
Avg. Event Rating (4.0 Stars):
I Am My Own Wife is the miraculous and fascinating true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazis and then Communism behind the Berlin Wall. When the wall came down and the West walked in, Charlotte was still standing. Her incredible life story, told in her own words to the playwright through a series of interviews, is also about what dark secrets she chooses not to tell, and how it colors Wright's efforts to chronicle her amazing life. The end result, says is a story...
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11/19/08-
12/21/08 |
Every Christmas Story Ever Told
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
November 19-December 21, 2008
Avg. Event Rating (3.0 Stars): 
Join us for this fast-moving, irreverent comedy that takes holiday cheer to the extreme! Every Christmas Story Ever Told is a fond and furious look at the holiday classics and traditions we all remember and some we would like to forget. From Frosty to Rudolph and the Grinch to It’s A Wonderful Life, no pop culture holiday icon is spared in this whirlwind of holiday merriment.
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10/08/08-
11/02/08 |
The Turn of the Screw
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
October 8-November 2, 2008
Avg. Event Rating (4.0 Stars):
In this chilling adaptation of Henry James spellbinding Victorian ghost story, the horror comes both from things that go bump in the night to make their presence known and from things kept quiet so that secrets stay buried. A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children and uncovers some frightening truths about her predecessor in a gothic "tour de force" journey into the unknown.
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07/30/08-
09/21/08 |
Altar Boyz
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
July 30-September 21, 2008
Avg. Event Rating (3.4 Stars): 
Altar Boyz, the critically-acclaimed winner of the Outer Critics Circle Best Musical, lands explosively at San Jose Stage in the South Bay premiere production. Hailed as "high-octane entertainment", Altar Boyz tells the holy inspiring story of 5 small-town boys - Matthew, Mark, Luke and Juan and joined by their Jewish member Abraham - trying to save the world one screaming fan at a time.Their pious pop act includes hits like Girl You Make Me Wanna Wait and Jesus...
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04/02/08-
04/27/08 |
Blade to the Heat
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
April 2-April 27, 2008
Avg. Event Rating (3.7 Stars):
Bursting through the brutality and prejudice of America in 1959, Blade to the Heat captures the sensual action of boxing and music. Critics are calling this revival “dynamic” and “action-packed” with a “heavyweight cast.” In this ring, where everything is a fight and life itself is the art form, the multiple conflicts of love, cultural forces, athletic glory and humiliation culminate in a series of brilliant fight sequences, lifted high on the...
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02/06/08-
03/02/08 |
Glengarry Glen Ross
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
February 6-March 2, 2008
Avg. Event Rating (4.5 Stars):
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, David Mamet's masterpiece portrays cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. The scalding comedy is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action - where closing a sale can mean a brand new Cadillac but...
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11/14/07-
12/23/07 |
A Tuna Christmas
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
November 14-December 23, 2007
Avg. Event Rating (4.0 Stars):
It's 24 hours before Christmas and all comic hell is about to break loose as the delightfully eccentric characters attempt to cope with seasonal traumas, such as a disaster-prone little theatre production of A Christmas Carol and a yard decorating contest being sabotaged by a mysterious Christmas phantom! The Smut Snatchers are at it again; this time attempting to have Silent Night banned, decent people just don't sing about round, young virgins. The whole Tuna gang is back,...
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09/19/07-
10/14/07 |
The Diary of Anne Frank
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
September 19-October 14, 2007
Avg. Event Rating (1.1 Stars): 
A story the world knows by heart: a young Jewish girl's harrowing account of hiding with her family from the Nazis in a tiny attic in Amsterdam. A striking new adaptation restores deleted passages from the diary, offering a richer look into this extraordinary young woman's coming of age. Drawing on newly discovered material from the diary that changed the world, Kesselman's play shows Anne Frank in a more human, realistic light as we honor the 60th anniversary of its publication.
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08/03/07-
08/25/07 |
Not A Genuine Black Man
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
August 3-August 25, 2007
Brian Copeland's first solo show, Not A Genuine Black Man, reveals a little-known chapter in Bay Area history. In 1971, San Leandro was named one of the most racist suburbs in America. Congressional hearings were held. The then-eight-year-old Brian Copeland and his African-American family moved to San Leandro. In a monologue that is both funny and poignant, Brian explores how surroundings make us who we are.
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| 06/25/07 |
Monday Night Live
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
June 25, 2007
Somewhat live from San Jose, it's Monday Night Live! San Jose Stage Company's Fourteenth Annual Fundraiser includes a catered reception and is a side-splitting evening of live sketch comedy that lampoons - and stars - some of San Jose's most prominent politicians and businesspeople. This year's Guest Host is Mayor Chuck Reed (for the second time). Guest hosts from previous years include Mayor Chuck Reed (when he was a Councilmember), former Mayors Ron Gonzales, Susan Hammer and Tom McEnery,...
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05/30/07-
07/08/07 |
Beehive
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
May 30-July 8, 2007
Avg. Event Rating (5.0 Stars):
Big hair is back - and so is the infectious shoo-be-do-wop-wop sound of the girl groups and female singers who rocked radio listeners in the 1960s with hits like My Boyfriend's Back, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow and Don't Sleep in the Subway. From The Shirelles to Dusty Springfield, The Shangri-Las to Janis Joplin and Patti LaBelle to Aretha Franklin, Beehive gives these women and their music the R-E-S-P-E-C-T they deserve. Silly and serious, funny and phenomenal, this...
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04/04/07-
04/29/07 |
The White House Murder Case
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
April 4-April 29, 2007
Avg. Event Rating (3.4 Stars):
Dubbed a “killer farce” by Time magazine in 1970 when it made its initial off-Broadway run, The White House Murder Case skewered the political climate of the time. A generation later, Jules Feiffer’s Obie Award-winning satire still resonates with its strangely familiar story of a President engaged in an increasingly unpopular war. As he and his Cabinet try to put a positive spin on a poison gas attack gone wrong, not to mention a murder in the Oval Office, the situation...
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02/07/07-
03/04/07 |
Gibraltar
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
February 7-March 4, 2007
Avg. Event Rating (4.0 Stars):
San Jose Stage Company, along with San Francisco’s Thick Description, is proud to present the California Premiere of this poetic, powerful tale of a journey into the heart of darkness that lies at the center of desire. In Gibraltar, chance brings together Palo, a traveler searching for his runaway wife, and Amy, a widow whose husband disappeared in a boating accident. Their story is just one in a study of love’s bargains, woven together by celebrated local playwright Octavio Solis with what...
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11/15/06-
12/10/06 |
Greater Tuna
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
November 15-December 10, 2006
Avg. Event Rating (4.3 Stars):
Greater Tuna is the hilarious comedy about Texas’ third-smallest town, where the Lion’s Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. The eclectic band of citizens that make up the town of Tuna are portrayed by only two performers, making this satire on life in rural America even more delightful. The show began as a simple party skit more than 20 years ago and has gone on to international fame and spawned two sequels. Variety called Greater Tuna “as clever as it is...
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09/20/06-
10/15/06 |
Lil' Darlin'
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
September 20-October 15, 2006
Avg. Event Rating (1.5 Stars): 
Renowned actor and local playwright Will Marchetti’s sparkling new comedy about a San Francisco family facing midlife has a delicious twist. What begins as a chat over peach cobbler leads to a series of announcements and a family crisis. The ensuing visitations by an increasingly absurd and hilarious group of relations and friends, not to mention a guru, build to a crescendo in this world premiere farce. For mature audiences only.
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07/05/06-
07/23/06 |
Idols of the King
California Theatre
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at California Theatre
July 5-July 23, 2006
Avg. Event Rating (4.5 Stars):
Put on your Blue Suede Shoes and get ready to Shake, Rattle and Roll when the King of Rock returns for a final encore at the California Theatre in this hilarious and song-filled tribute starring the amazing Scot Bruce! This Rockin’ Broadway-style musical celebration comes vibrantly to life through the stories and memories of the wildest bunch of Elvis fans ever, and the King and his Band deliver a show that has audiences on their feet and dancing in the aisles!
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| 06/26/06 |
Monday Night Live!
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
June 26, 2006
Somewhat live from San Jose, it's Monday Night Live! San Jose Stage Company's Thirteenth Annual Fundraiser includes a catered reception and is a side-splitting evening of live sketch comedy that lampoons - and stars - some of San Jose's most prominent politicians and businesspeople. Last year's Guest Host was San Jose Councilmember Forrest Williams. Guest hosts from previous years include Mayor Ron Gonzales, former Mayors Susan Hammer and Tom McEnery, Sheriff Laurie Smith, Councilmembers Cindy...
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05/31/06-
07/09/06 |
Urinetown, The Musical
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
May 31-July 9, 2006
Avg. Event Rating (4.3 Stars):
The South Bay Professional Debut of the Tony Award-Winning Musical that critics have labeled “Broadway’s ‘IT’ Musical!” In this hilarious and song-filled tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution, the citizens must use public amenities regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides he's had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom! Along the way, this hit show...
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04/05/06-
04/30/06 |
True West
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
April 5-April 30, 2006
With equal parts humor and intensity, True West dissects the American Dream and the divide it creates between imagination and reality. Sam Shepard’s most popular black comedy is a gritty examination of two warring brothers that has inspired a new generation of playwrights to take their own darkly comic look at sibling rivalry. Through the power struggle between Austin and Lee, True West brings the question of cultural and individual identity into sharp focus.
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| 02/19/06 |
Evolution Debate
San Jose Stage Theater
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02/08/06-
03/05/06 |
Inherit the Wind
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
February 8-March 5, 2006
In a small Tennessee town, a young high school teacher is brought to trial for teaching from Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species. The first trial to be broadcast over the radio, the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial was the media event of its day, comparable to the frenzy surrounding the O.J. Simpson trial. With the introduction of Intelligent Design into Kansas biology classrooms, Inherit the Wind, the 1955 theatrical dramatization of the trial, is more relevant today than ever. For...
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| 12/05/05 |
Freeze! - Staged Reading
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
December 5, 2005
Sacramento author Richard Broadhurst has crafted a searing exploration of one night in a riot damaged city. The play shows the effect that night has on two men who are forced to face their past, and each other, as they wait out the terrible urban storm. Into their shelter comes a young man, who has his own ideas on the value of rioting as a means of change. Will wounded Officer Preston have the ability to escape? Will Jerome and Tyler come to terms with what it means to be black in America,...
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11/16/05-
12/11/05 |
The Sugar Bean Sisters
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
November 16-December 11, 2005
Deep in a Florida swamp, the Nettles sisters try to kill time and each other while they wait for a Mormon Suitor or or a visit from aliens. In this "southern Gothic Comedy," if the gators or the aliens don't get you, the flying cats will. Nathan Sanders creates a wonderfully weird and wacky world that combines elements of Tennessee Williams and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Throw in a Cajun reptile woman and an exotic dancer and the laughs cascade non-stop. Praised in the...
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09/21/05-
10/16/05 |
Tenders in the Fog
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
September 21-October 16, 2005
Local playwright Trevor Allen spins the mystery of the fishing boat Trinity, presumed lost at sea off the foggy San Francisco coast. An ageless shanachie serves as the guide for his Celtic-flavored ghost story of three generations of Irish-American crab fishermen fathers and sons each named James Bailey haunted by their stormy pasts. Are the Bailey men being tormented by reflections of the women they've loved and lost, or are they lured by ancient Sirens to a watery grave?
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07/13/05-
07/31/05 |
Idols of the King
California Theatre
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at California Theatre
July 13-July 31, 2005
The King of Rock 'n' Roll is in the building and on the stage for this musical tribute to his diehard fans. To prove their burning love for their idol, group of engaging oddballs put on their blue suede shoes and head to Vegas for a concert. En route, they share stories of the King, who makes their dreams come true when He performs hits like Heartbreak Hotel, Jailhouse Rock and I Can't Stop Loving You. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Idols of the King makes old-time rock...
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06/01/05-
06/26/05 |
Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
June 1-June 26, 2005
Canada's Electric Company Theatre presents a show as inventive as its title character. In BRILLIANT!, the rivalry between Nikola Tesla - who devised alternating current - and his former employer Thomas Edison is played out in a tap-dancing contest, and Tesla's descent into madness is depicted with a mimed "silent movie." This production marks San Jose Stage Company's first joint project with an international partner; the original Canadian staging won five Jessie Awards from the Vancouver...
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02/09/05-
03/06/05 |
The Lonesome West
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
February 9-March 6, 2005
Following the success of The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Skull in Connemara, San Jose Stage Company presents the next chapter of Martin McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy. The Lonesome West is as comically volatile as we’ve come to expect from McDonagh. His acute ear for language transforms casual speech into the poetry of the Irish storytelling tradition. That colorful, surreal voice that earned The Lonesome West a Tony nomination. McDonagh gives audiences one...
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11/24/04-
12/19/04 |
The Woman in Black
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
November 24-December 19, 2004
"We are telling ghost stories - just the thing for Christmas Eve!" So begins the tale of The Woman in Black, told by the man who lived it years ago as he tries to purge himself of the terror it still brings him. Instead, his story brings back to life the fog-shrouded Victorian mansion where he was haunted by a malevolent ghost - a young woman with a ravaged face. Through shadows and glimpses and things half-heard, we watch the man confront the demons of his past. But will he be able to...
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09/29/04-
10/24/04 |
The Glass Menagerie
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
September 29-October 24, 2004
In The Glass Menagerie, Tom Wingfield’s memories of life in a St. Louis tenement cast a beam of harsh light on the fragile dream worlds his sister Laura has created. The glass of Laura’s collection illuminates the family’s vulnerability with prismatic reality. The dramatic power of Williams’ first popular success lies in the unflinching honesty of this emotional masterpiece.
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06/02/04-
06/27/04 |
UG: A Stone-Age Musical Comedy
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
June 2-June 27, 2004
A tribe of Neanderthals invent theater—and all the backstage machinations that go with it—in this witty rewrite of prehistory. Before actors could walk upright, the show posits, they could still try to upstage their fellow performers and develop celebrity-size egos in their prefrontal lobes. And despite their lacking language and choreography, they could still sing and dance their way into the hearts of their fellow tribesman.
This world-premiere musical features a book and lyrics by...
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04/14/04-
05/09/04 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
April 14-May 9, 2004
Almost 60 years after John Huston directed the classic film version of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, B. Traven’s estate has granted San Jose Stage Company permission to tell the story. Actor/writer Herb Robins’ script represents the first time the work has been staged since the 1948 screenplay.
At the center of this intense drama is Fred C. Dobbs, a down-on-his-luck American with a lust for gold, who hooks up with some prospectors to find the Mexican Mother Lode. Guided by greed and...
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02/18/04-
03/14/04 |
Misery
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
February 18-March 14, 2004
In this taut psychological thriller from the master of horror, a romance novelist is rescued from a car accident by his loony "Number One Fan," whose obsession with his characters fuels a brutal "recovery" regimen for her captive patient. From the confines of a remote Colorado farmhouse, Misery takes a chilling look at the relationship between the writer and the reader and asks compelling questions about who really has the power to make a story live or die. Written by Stephen King and adapted...
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11/26/03-
12/21/03 |
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
November 26-December 21, 2003
Spawned from a character in one of Charles Busch’s drag shows, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is a comedy with one foot in mainstream theater the other in the over-the-top style that first drew attention to the playwright/actor. The Broadway production was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, and the off-Broadway production garnered Mr. Busch the Outer Critic’s Circle John Gassner Award for Playwriting. The New York Times called the play “a window-rattling comedy of midlife...
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10/26/03-
10/25/03 |
Post-Show Discussion of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story with Maria Elena Holly
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
October 26-October 25, 2003
Maria Elena Holly will also be on hand for the show’s final performance on Sunday, October 26, for a post-show discussion and reception at The Agenda.
“It’s a wonderful play,” Maria Elena says of BUDDY, which depicts her late husband’s all-too-brief life
and career.
The West Coast premiere of BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY opened at Pacific Repertory Theatre, which is co-producing the show with San Jose Stage Company. The show chronicles the rock ‘n’ roll legend’s meteoric...
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| 10/25/03 |
San Jose Stage Company Fundraiser: An Evening with Maria Elena Holly
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
October 25, 2003
San Jose Stage Company presents "An Evening with Maria Elena Holly" - Fundraiser closes blockbuster 2-month run of "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story".
“It’s a wonderful play,” Maria Elena says of BUDDY, which depicts her late husband’s all-too-brief life and career.
The West Coast premiere of BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY opened at Pacific Repertory Theatre, which is co-producing the show with San Jose Stage Company. The show chronicles the rock ‘n’ roll legend’s meteoric rise...
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08/13/03-
10/26/03 |
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
August 13-October 26, 2003
BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY chronicles the rock 'n' roll legend's rise to the top of the charts to become the best-selling recording artist in the world before he died too young—at age 22—in a plane crash that also took the lives of Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper.
The 20 member cast performs Buddy Holly's hits live on stage, including Peggy Sue, That'll Be The Day, Oh Boy, Rave On, Heartbeat and Raining in My Heart. San Jose Stage Company is co-producing this Olivier...
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| 06/30/03 |
Monday Night Live!
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
June 30, 2003
Somewhat live from San Jose, it's Monday Night Live! San Jose Stage Company's 10th Annual Fundraiser includes a catered reception and is a side-splitting evening of live sketch comedy that lampoons and starts some of San Jose's most prominent politicians and businesspeople.
Guest hosts from previous years: Mayor Ron Gonzales, former Mayors Susan Hammer and Tom McEnery, Sheiff Laurie Smith, Councilmember Cindy Chavez, former Councilmembers Margie Matthews, Charlotte Powers and George...
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06/04/03-
06/29/03 |
I Hate Hamlet
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
June 4-June 29, 2003
With his television career in limbo, a young and successful actor relocates to New York and is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet on stage, but there's one problem - he hates Hamlet! His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore's ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full costume to the apartment that was once his.
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04/18/03-
05/04/03 |
Downtown Arts Series
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
April 18-May 4, 2003
In it's 11th year, the Downtown Arts Series offers a unique opportunity to experience San Jose's diverse cultural resources.
The Series is sponsored by the City of San Jose's Office of Cultural Affairs and San Jose Stage Company.
The Series is proud to present the following productions:
Contemporary Asian Theatre Scene Presents
"THE 18 MIGHTY MOUNTAIN WARRIORS”
April 18, 2003 at 8pm
April 19, 2003 at 8pm
Association for Viet Arts Presents
"LOVE’S...
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03/19/03-
04/13/03 |
BUT FIRST...SAMMY SHORE!
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
March 19-April 13, 2003
by Sammy Shore and Rudy DeLuca
L.A.'s longest-running comedy comes to San Jose Stage Company. In a performance critics have hailed as both poignant and "rippingly funny," Comedy Store co-founder Sammy Shore reveals the highs and lows of his 45-year stand-up career, from his stints as an opener for superstars like Elvis and Barbra Streisand to his ill-timed break-up with partner Shecky Greene. BUT FIRST...SAMMY SHORE! is a one-man show in three acts, in which the veteran comedian gives his...
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01/29/03-
02/23/03 |
Ghosts
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
January 29-February 23, 2003
The classic drama by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
The sins of the father weigh heavy on the son in Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama, adapted by Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre Company. Weaving an intricate web of emotion, GHOSTS masterfully reveals the high cost of keeping secrets to save face, and the damage the truth can do when it’s told too late.
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11/27/02-
12/22/02 |
Incorruptible
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
November 27-December 22, 2002
by Michael Hollinger
The magic has gone out of the old bones of a patron saint housed in a 13th-century French monastery, which is in need of a miracle to attract the tithing faithful. What’s a poor monk to do when the village peasants won’t pay more than a button for a prayer? The clerics in Michael Hollinger’s farce struggle to dig up a few answers, even as the Pope comes knocking at their door.
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10/02/02-
10/27/02 |
A Skull in Connemara
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
October 2-October 27, 2002
Regional Premiere A SKULL IN CONNEMARA
by Martin McDonagh
In his follow-up to THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, produced last season by San Jose Stage Company to critical and audience acclaim, playwright Martin McDonagh takes another skewed look at the inhabitants of this tiny Irish village where, as the New York Times put it, “existence has become so tedious that nothing is sacred -- including matricide, patricide, fratricide and suicide -- if it livens things up a bit.” Come see why...
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06/12/02-
07/28/02 |
Fuddy Meers
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
June 12-July 28, 2002
This Obie-Award winning comedy, by David Lindsay-Abaire, revolves around Claire, a psychogenic amnesiac who wakes up not remembering anything about her past, not even the day before. When she is kidnapped by a mysterious, limping man and an ex-convict with a hand puppet named "Hinky-Binky" the audience is off on a wild ride as she tries to overcome her fractured memory. Touted as a "comic genius" by the New York Observer, the playwright has written a wacky, yet poignant, comedy, which proves...
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Altar Boyz
San Jose Stage Theater
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
at San Jose Stage Theater
December 31, 2069
Altar Boyz, the critically-acclaimed winner of the Outer Critics Circle Best Musical, lands explosively at San Jose Stage in the South Bay premiere production. Hailed as "high-octane entertainment", Altar Boyz tells the holy inspiring story of 5 small-town boys - Matthew, Mark, Luke and Juan and joined by their Jewish member Abraham - trying to save the world one screaming fan at a time.Their pious pop act includes hits like Girl You Make Me Wanna Wait and...
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