City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater
529 South Second Street San Jose CA 95112- Phone:
- 408-295-4200
- Website:
- http://www.cltc.org/
- Capacity:
- 108
Other merchants and businesses in the SoFA district include Metro newspapers, Agenda Restaurant and Lounge, MACLA Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Notre Dame High School, as well as other theaters such as San Jose Stage Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and Northside Theatre Company. Many fine dining restaurants are within easy walking distance of the theater.
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Current Events on Goldstar
In the Next Room (Or, The Vibrator Play): Sarah Ruhl's Acclaimed Comedy
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00
The hit comedy by Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) finds a Victorian-era doctor in New York championing the effects of a new electronic device (yes, the vibrator!) designed to treat female hysteria. In the... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
The Captive Flowers: A New Play About Love, Madness and Van Gogh
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Written by local playwright Richard Medugno, The Captive Flowers tells the story of a reclusive group of grown women, five sisters and their domineering mother, whose lives are transformed when a troubled... Learn More.
Hamlet: City Lights' Modern-Day Version of Shakespeare's Drama
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $28.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $14.00
Considered by many to be one of the finest tragedies ever written, Shakespeare's Hamlet has captivated audiences for more than 400 years with its explorations of life, love, duty and vengeance. Commanded by... Learn More.
Thrilling Dark Comedy Aphrodisiac: The Case of the Congressman and the Missing Intern
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $28.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $14.00
A member of congress is suspected in the disappearance of his young female intern. It's a story that played itself out in newspaper headlines across the nation when Chandra Levy disappeared in 2001. Inspired... Learn More.
City Lights Theater Company Two-Show Package: Aphrodisiac and Hamlet
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $56.00
- Our Price:
- $22.00
City Lights Theater Company is offering a two-show package from their forthcoming season, including the first two plays of the new year: Aphrodisiac and Hamlet. Loosely based on actual events, Rob Handel's ... Learn More.
The Santaland Diaries: Davis Sedaris' Holiday Story Returns
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00
City Lights Theater Company presents the Santaland Diaries, back by popular demand after nine years. The comedic one-man show based on David Sedaris' essay on the trials and tribulations of working as a... Learn More.
Nine: Tony-Winning Musical Based on Fellini's 8 1/2
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00
This enchanting musical adaptation of Italian director Federico Fellini's 8 ½, a comic masterpiece of autobiographical filmmaking, follows the mid-life crisis of world-famous film director Guido Contini as... Learn More.
City Lights Theater Presents Distracted, a Play About Family and Pharmaceuticals
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $28.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $14.00
From Lisa Loomer, the co-writer of the film Girl, Interrupted, City Lights Theater's spring show unveils a mother's difficult and uncertain journey. Fearful that her son may have Attention Deficit Disorder,... Learn More.
Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-Winning Drama Equus from City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $28.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $14.00
Equus, Peter Shaffer's masterpiece of theatricality and compelling human drama, pits passion against propriety in a psychological detective story that explores worship, desire and violence. When middle-aged... Learn More.
Compleat Female Stage Beauty: Bawdy, Historical Comedy-Drama by Jeffrey Hatcher
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00
When men played women on England's theater stages, Edward Kynaston reigned supreme as London's most celebrated leading lady. But when actress Margaret Hughes persuades King Charles II to allow actual females... Learn More.
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party: A Hilarious Musical About America's Culture Wars
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $28.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $14.00
With each act telling the story from a different character's viewpoint - and the audience dictating in what order the story is told - this hilarious farce centers on a rural Illinois third-grade teacher who... Learn More.
First Day of School, a Sexy Comedy by Billy Aronson at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00
City Lights Theater Company presents First Day of School, a sex farce by Billy Aronson -- the playwright who developed the concept for Rent. The play is about a group of dedicated yet daring parents who... Learn More.
Second Weekend in September, an Unexpected Love Story from CLTC and San Jose Pride
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $14.00
City Lights Theater in partnership with San Jose Pride present Second Weekend in September, the unexpected love story of two men who share a decades-long affair only one weekend a year. Over the years, David... Learn More.
Frank Langella's Cyrano from City Lights Theater Company
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00
Frank Langella's Cyrano is the classic tale of Cyrano de Bergerac, a man who longs to feel worthy of love despite the nose that fate has dealt him. Langella's version strips down the original story of Cyrano... Learn More.
Innocence Meets Experience in Lori Rivera's One-Woman Show Smoke
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Smoke proves that love is not for the faint of heart. In this one-woman cabaret show, Lori Rivera brings to life two endearing characters. The innocent Celeste is looking for Mr. Right with a dangerously... Learn More.
Dead Man Walking, the Poignant Social Drama Live on Stage
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00
Acting as spiritual adviser for Matthew Poncelet, a rapist and murderer condemned to death, Sister Helen Prejean finds herself drawn into a struggle to save not only his life but his soul. As the killer's... Learn More.
Musical Comedy Another Night Before Christmas at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $14.00
Burnt-out social worker Karol Elliot is having a crisis of Christmas spirit. While heading home on a lonely Christmas Eve, she shares her groceries with a homeless man who decides to show his thanks and... Learn More.
Dark Comedy The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00
City Lights Theater Company presents a provocative comedy by acclaimed New York playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot examines the life of the bible's most controversial and... Learn More.
The Who's Tommy: Pioneering Rock Opera from City Lights Theater Company
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
City Lights Theater Company presents The Who's Tommy. Written by Pete Townshend, lead guitarist of rock legends The Who, this classic rock opera tells the story of a blind, deaf, and mute boy who gains fame... Learn More.
A Same-Sex Relationship Provokes Violence in Drama Stop Kiss
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $15.00
When Sara, a young teacher from the Midwest, leaves her boyfriend and family to take an inner city teaching assignment in the Bronx, she's befriended by traffic reporter Callie. After the two women... Learn More.
The Three Musketeers, a New Take on the Swashbuckling Classic
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
As actors take the stage for Dumas' tale of friendship, love and justice in 17th-century France, they discover that their leading player is nowhere to be found. Only when a hapless stagehand is provided with... Learn More.
Drama First Person Shooter from City Lights Theater Company
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $15.00
After a Columbine-type shooting, the creator of a violent video game receives a letter from the shooter, written just before his rampage and suicide, thanking him and his company for the "practice" that the... Learn More.
Rapunzel, or Hair Today Gone Tomorrow with Holiday Musical Revue
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $15.00
In this irreverent and satirical fractured fairy tale, Prince Harry attempts to rescue Rapunzel who has imprisoned by a witch. Rounding out the evening is City Lights' first-ever Holiday Musical Revue,... Learn More.
Hilarious Backstage Farce Noises Off at City Lights Theater Company
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $15.00
Noises Off is the story of a hapless English acting troupe that is touring a production of a farce called Nothing On. This "funniest farce ever" is filled with slamming doors, romantic dalliances, mass... Learn More.
Hair, the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $15.00
Join the tribe, let the sunshine in and live the American tribal love-rock anti-war musical at City Lights. Hair tells the story of a group of young people in New York's East Village who banded together to... Learn More.
Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $15.00
Written by the creator of The West Wing, this award-winning play about the trial of two Marines accused of killing one of their own at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. Culminating in a riveting courtroom... Learn More.
Aristophanes' Comic Love-and-War Masterpiece Lysistrata
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
What would it take to put an end to war? How about an end to s*x? Aristophanes' classic comedy comes to life in a brand-new, fast-paced and bawdy adaptation commissioned especially for City Lights' 25th... Learn More.
Chilling Drama Boy Gets Girl at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $15.00
Theresa is a successful New York reporter who loves her work and the life she has made for herself. Tony is attractive, funny--and obsessed with Theresa. As family, friends, and even the authorities prove... Learn More.
Comic Adventure Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $15.00
In this funny, irreverent, and highly theatrical story, Jacob Marley is chained and shackled after death, condemned to a hellish eternity. After agreeing to redeem his unredeemable partner Ebenezer Scrooge,... Learn More.
Angels In America, Part Two: Perestroika at the City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $15.00
The City Lights Theater presents Angels In America, Part Two: Perestroika -- the conclusion of Tony Kushner's story about love, religion, and politics in the 1980s. Both challenging and uplifting, the play... Learn More.
The Full Monty, Tony Award-Winning Musical Based On the Popular Film
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
City Lights Theater Company is proud to present their production of The Full Monty, the Tony Award-winning musical based on the popular film about six unemployed steelworkers who become male strippers. Learn More.
Edward Albee's Controversial Play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $12.50
From one of America's master playwrights comes this highly controversial tale about a man whose unusual infidelity is suddenly revealed to his unsuspecting family. This 2002 Tony Award-winner for Best Play... Learn More.
The World Premiere of Voluntary Amnesia at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $12.50
City Lights Theater Company presents the world premiere of Melissa Dylan's drama, Voluntary Amnesia. This play tells the story of three women who, when diagnosed with clinical depression, refuse traditional... Learn More.
Neil LaBute's Award-Winning Comedy Fat Pig
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Can love survive the cruel pressures of a low-cal, no-carb, salad bar world? Tom feels a magnetic attraction for the bright, witty, plus-sized Helen, but his coworkers are determined to save him from himself... Learn More.
A Christmas Twist - A Holiday Parody for All Ages
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
A Christmas Carol meets Oliver! with a comic dose of Annie tossed in. A Christmas Twist is parody at its whacky best. Taking traditional holiday fare and tossing it on its Dickensian ear, this laugh-a-minute... Learn More.
Tony Kushner's Angels in America - Part 1
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Angels in America is an epic look at the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the politics of America in the 1980's, and how the two intertwined. Written by Tony Kushner the play won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony... Learn More.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Musical Jesus Christ Superstar at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
City Lights Theater Company of San Jose presents Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, the controversial blockbuster chronicling the last days of Jesus of Nazareth. The show, which ran... Learn More.
String of Pearls at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
In this funny, moving story, the journey of one necklace links the lives of 27 very different women. Four actresses play wildly varied characters who covet, steal, bestow and misplace a lustrous string of... Learn More.
The Nerd, a Comedy by Larry Shue, at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
City Lights Theater Company of San Jose's production of The Nerd by Larry Shue is a delightful comedy classic about an unwanted houseguest. William Cubbert is paid a surprise visit by the man who saved his... Learn More.
Poignant Comedy Visiting Mr. Green from City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
When an elderly man is nearly struck by a car, the driver is sentenced to community service: helping the man with his household chores for six months. This comedy about two very different men who do not want... Learn More.
Bittersweet Comedy Wise Women at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $17.50
Winter, 1944...against the backdrop of a world at war, Florence and her seventeen-year-old daughter Rose share a working class home in Tennessee. Florence invites two young women working at the local... Learn More.
Prize-Winning Play Proof at City Lights
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award! Proof tells the story of Catherine, who has spent years caring for her father, a brilliant but troubled mathematician. Now she must deal not only with his death,... Learn More.
Comedy The Pavilion from the Lead Writer of Six Feet Under
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $17.00 - $28.00
- Our Price:
- $8.50 - $14.00
At thirty-seven, Peter has come home for his twenty-year high-school reunion with dreams of winning back Kari, the girl he left behind. Standing in Peter's way is Kari herself - harboring a bitter resentment... Learn More.
A...My Name is Alice at the City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00 - $12.50
This colorful and lively musical review offers a vivid kaleidoscope of sketches, monologues, songs, and poems that reveal unique comic insights into the lives of contemporary women - friends, rivals, sisters... Learn More.
What the Butler Saw - An Outrageous British Farce
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $34.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $17.00
City Lights Theater Company presents Joe Orton's hilarious farce What the Butler Saw, the raucous story of a psychiatrist whose attempts at extramarital seduction blow up in his face. Learn More.
Dark Comedy The Waiting Room at City Lights
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $17.00 - $28.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $12.00
City Lights Theater presents The Waiting Room, a satirical and controversial examination of the timeless quest for beauty. Learn More.
Heroes, a Superhero Comedy, at City Lights
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $17.00 - $24.00
- Our Price:
- $8.50 - $12.00
City Lights Theater presents the world premiere of Heroes, a madcap feel-good comedy about two regular guys who decide to become superheroes. Learn More.
A Most Notorious Woman from City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The City Lights Theater Company presents A Most Notorious Woman, a one-woman show written and performed by Molly Lyons, based on the remarkable life of 16th century Irish Queen and Sea Captain, Grace O'Malley. Learn More.
The World Premiere of Clouds Hill
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $24.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $12.00
City Lights Theater presents Clouds Hill, a timely and topical new play set against the backdrop of the War on Terror, about two professors shaken out of their comfortable academic existence. Learn More.
Stephen Sondheim's Assassins at the City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.00
The show that gives new meaning to the phrase "killer musical" returns in a dazzling new production! Currently playing to soldout audiences on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim's Assassins is the acclaimed writer's... Learn More.
Don Juan in Chicago at City Lights Theater
City Lights Theater (San Jose, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $22.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00 - $11.00
Don Juan in Chicago brings the randy 16th-century nobleman to modern day America in this hilarious updating of the classic story. Learn More.
Map and Directions
From San Francisco: Take Highway 280 south. Take the 7th St. exit. Turn right on Virginia (at bottom of the off-ramp). Turn right on 3rd St. (at 1st stop light). Turn left on William (at 3rd stop light). Turn left on 2nd Street (at stop light).
From Oakland: Take Highway 880 south. Take 1st St. exit. Head south on 1st St. until you can go no more. Turn right on Julian. Turn left on Market. Turn left on William. Turn right on 2nd Street.
From Milpitas: Take Highway 680 south. Exit onto Highway 280 North. Take 7th St. Exit. Turn right on 7th St. (at bottom of off-ramp). Turn left on William. Turn left on 2nd St.
Parking: Parking is available most nights directly across the street at Notre Dame High School for only $5.00.
Handicap Information
Handicap seating is regularly available.
Please contact us after buying tickets by replying to your confirmation email to make arrangements.