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Emmy Award-winning actor Peter Coyote provides an intimate look at his remarkable career in this discussion. The author of the new book Sleeping Where I Fall, Coyote began his career in the counterculture movement of the '60s, and discusses his role in such organizations as the San Fancisco Mime Troupe and the anarchistic Diggers. Learn more...

The touring company of the legendary Second City performs at San Jose Repertory Theatre. Founded over forty years ago in Chicago, The Second City's alumni range from Bill Murray and John Belushi to Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert. This show features the next generation of smart, funny, and fearless comic stars in sketches, songs, and improvisations. Learn more...

San Jose Repertory Theatre presents The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. This delightfully quirky musical comedy tells the stories of six misfit kids striving to be victorious in a spelling bee. A huge Broadway hit, the Tony Award-winning show's original run lasted over a thousand performances. Learn more...

A new stage adaptation based on Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel of the same name, The Kite Runner is a haunting and epic story of friendship and redemption in modern Afghanistan. The drama traces the lives of two boys from different social classes growing up in Kabul before and during the Soviet invasion and the ensuing reign of the Taliban. Learn more...

Adventurer Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his life and fortune at risk. With his loyal French manservant, Passepartout, by his side, Fogg sets off to circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days. To complicate matters, the bumbling lawman Detective Fix has mistaken Fogg for a notorious bank robber and tenaciously dogs Fogg's footsteps around the globe. Learn more...

San Jose Repertory Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Jamie Pachino's Splitting Infinity. This smart and witty exploration of faith, science, love, and ambition tells the story of a Nobel prize-winning astrophysicist who is attempting to use physics to prove whether God exists -- a quest which brings her into conflict with the people closest to her. Learn more...

A little Dickens. A short Longfellow. Reduced Proust...All the Great Books. Less is more. The literary canon explodes as London's longest-running comedy troupe unleashes their outrageously sharp comedic compendium of the world's greatest books. Confused by Confucius? Thoroughly thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was swifter? Tennyson tinier? Then buckle up and hop aboard as the three cultural guerrillas zip through everything you didn't get around to reading in school. Learn more...

Against the backdrop of Victorian London, the respected Dr. Henry Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior. At the same time, a brutal figure haunts the city's streets, committing assault and murder. Nationally renowned playwright Jeffrey Hatcher brings Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of inner demons and evil unchecked to the San Jose Rep's stage in a theatrically intense, contemporary and fiendishly clever production. Learn more...

San Jose Repertory Theatre presents Souvenir, the beloved and hilarious Broadway hit based on the life of Florence Foster Jenkins. Dubbed by her critics as the "Dire Diva of Din," Jenkins enjoyed a remarkably successful concert career even though she was unburdened by talent and deliriously tone-deaf. Lost in her vision of music, her accompanist, Cosme McMoon, grows to admire, respect and even protect the diva's triumphant spirit and belief in herself. Learn more...

Philip is a highly respected psychiatrist famous for using a form of hypnosis called "trancing" to help his patients uncover suppressed memories. When he trances Azmera, an African grad student, he unexpectedly learns of a secret that could have profound consequences for thousands in an African village. This electrifying ride was written by Robert Clayman, a nationally recognized psychologist and playwright. Learn more...

The mischievous princess Leonide will stop at nothing to conquer love in this bedazzling 18th-century comedy by Pierre Marivaux, France's most influential playwright. Full of delicious deception, gender confusions and all the complexities of l'amour, Marivaux reveals the beauty, absurdities and bittersweet nature of love. Learn more...

Before Jersey Boys and Hairspray, Broadway was jiving to the rock and roll songs of the 1960s with the Ellie Greenwich musical Leader of the Pack. Children's Musical Theater delivers an energetic production with hit songs such as "Be My Baby," "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Hanky Panky" and "Leader of the Pack." Learn more...

On the night before President Nixon's 1974 resignation, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrives at the White House prepared to find Nixon ready to resign. What follows is a riotous romp as Nixon and Kissinger obsess about their places in history, concocting a series of harebrained crises to keep them both in office. Learn more...

Arguably the greatest American play from America's greatest playwright. Eugene O'Neill's searing autobiographical masterpiece about his home life remains one of the most challenging and moving theatrical experiences and is one of the most enduring works of art of the last century. So personal and revealing, O'Neill forbade it to be published or performed until after his death. The Rep invites you to celebrate this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama in honor of the 50th Anniversary of its first production. Learn more...

Christmas is a time of great expectations. For nine-year-old Ralphie Parker, that expectation is a Red Ryder 200 Shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. But his mom, his teacher and even the Santa Claus at Goldblatt's department store share the same reaction to his Christmas wish: "You'll shoot your eye out!" Based on the touching film that has become a holiday tradition, A Christmas Story will delight the whole family. Learn more...

The funny and observant Moonlight and Magnolias tells the story behind the greatest film almost never made: The desire of David O. Selznick to produce "Gone With the Wind" leads him to hold writer Ben Hecht and director Victor Fleming creative captives in his office for five days while Selznick shuts down "Gone With the Wind" production, using an endless arsenal of guilt, anger and intimidation to make them rewrite and rescue the picture's ailing script. Learn more...

CMT Mainstage revisits one of its most moving productions from the last decade. Side Show is based on the true story of Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, whose extraordinary bondage lends itself to a beautiful production of great passions and tragic love. Told through an unforgettable Broadway score, Side Show follows the twins from England to post-Depression America around the vaudeville circuit and to Hollywood in their search for what life can offer two talented women seeking independence, happiness and love. Learn more...

A comedy with music about a lifetime's obsession with 88 keys! 2 Pianos, 4 Hands is the riotous tales of two boys in Canada sharing the same goal: concert pianist stardom! They work fervently towards their dream amidst pushy parents, eccentric teachers, hours of repetitive practice, stage fright, the agony of competitions and the dream of greatness. This is the story for anyone who has ever taken a music lesson -- or ever simply encountered some kind of disappointment and has hilariously and heroically moved on. Learn more...

As part of their 25th Anniversary Season, San Jose Repertory Theatre presents Euripides' last play Iphigenia at Aulis, accompanied by San Francisco's Dance Brigade. This caustically acute drama explores the question, "How far will a military leader go to save face and secure victory?" Learn more...

San Jose Repertory Theatre presents Rolin Jones' irreverent "techno-comedy" about a brilliant woman's quest to determine her heritage with the help of a Mormon missionary, a pizza delivery guy, and her astounding creation called "Jenny Chow." Jennifer is just an an average girl who re-engineers obsolete missile components for the U.S. Army from her bedroom computer. When she decides to meet her birth mother in China, she uses her technological genius to devise a new form of human contact. Learn more...

San Jose Repertory Theatre presents The Immigrant, about a young Russian Jewish immigrant who moves to rural Texas. The Immigrant is a tale of parents and children, newcomers and natives, Christians and Jews, and the realization that the dreams that bind us together are often the same. Learn more...

One of the world's greatest novels, Jane Austen's marvelously smart and romantic tale is transformed for the stage at the San Jose Repertory Theatre. It's an 18th century catastrophe in the making as Mrs. Bennett has five daughters to marry off. Elaborate balls, hunting parties, and courtship ensue, as each daughter makes her choice. Learn more...

Told by Martin Moran with disarming honesty, The Tricky Part is a riveting journey through the complexities of Catholicism, transgression and human behavior. It's an extraordinary theatrical journey you will never forget. Learn more...

The mysterious tale behind a San Jose landmark comes to magical life on stage in a bold new musical by local composer/musician Craig Bohmler (Enter the Guardsmen) and playwright/Tony Award-nominee Mary Bracken Phillips. It's a funny, romantic, thought-provoking story about one family's addiction to producing the fastest gun in the west--and the price some are willing to pay for fortune. Learn more...

San Jose Repertory Theatre presents Avner the Eccentric (The Jewel of the Nile) in Exceptions to Gravity. Drawing on elements of commedia dell'arte, farce, Emmet Kelly clowning, Chaplinesque routines and mugging a la Harpo Marx, this is a fun summer show for the whole family! Learn more...

San Jose Repertory Theatre presents Hannah and Martin, Kate Fodor's emotionally transfixing and critically acclaimed 2003 debut play about Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Learn more...

The San Jose Rep welcomes the irreverent Kate Clinton to the stage for a wild, free-associating, dot-connecting romp through presidential selections, stem and terrorist cells, The Fox of War, Patriot action, Homeland Insecurity, the Axis of Medievals, Mad Vow Disease and Bush Free Daze. It's a breathless ninety minute whiplash for rubberneckers of cultural trainwrecks who need a laugh. Learn more...

Making Tracks is a bold new rock musical about a young Asian American musician who uncovers the stories behind his family's six-generation struggle to find a voice in America. Learn more...

The Tony-nominated romantic comedy Enchanted April traces the stories of four very different Englishwomen as they share a springtime holiday in a secluded castle in post-WWI Italy. Learn more...

San Jose Rep joins the worldwide tsunami relief effort with a benefit concert starring Marga Gomez. Come share the love with a hilarious performance from one of the funniest females on the planet while helping millions affected by this terrible disaster. Learn more...

Get ready for a wickedly funny--yet touching--play that turns Christmas upside down! In Sugar Plum Fairy, multi-talented actor/author/commentator Sandra Tsing Loh recalls a 1970s San Fernando Valley childhood rife with dashed dreams, sibling rivalry, adolescent fantasies and general mayhem during that tumultuous seasonal ritual: The Holidays. Learn more...

Get ready for a wickedly funny--yet touching--play that turns Christmas upside down! In Sugar Plum Fairy, multi-talented actor/author/commentator Sandra Tsing Loh recalls a 1970s San Fernando Valley childhood rife with dashed dreams, sibling rivalry, adolescent fantasies and general mayhem during that tumultuous seasonal ritual: The Holidays. Learn more...

The Scene at The Rep presents Sandra Tsing Loh's acclaimed holiday show, Sugar Plum Fairy. This one-woman theatrical tour de force is the perfect antidote to yet another season of Dickens. Includes both pre-show and after-parties! Learn more...

The San Jose Repertory Theatre presents the hit stage adaptation of Mitch Albom's inspiring and heart-warming, bestselling novel, Tuesdays with Morrie. Learn more...

San Jose Repertory Theatre presents one of the great classic comedies: George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, a play as timeless today as when it was first written. Learn more...

The San Jose Repertory Theatre presents The Underpants, an updated version of the classic comedy about scandal and celebrity, filled with Steve Martin's famous flashes of wit. Learn more...

The San Jose Repertory Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Theresa Rebeck's hilarious and engaging comedy of divorce, dating and footwear: Bad Dates, starring Broadway's favorite Carol Halstead. Learn more...

Shakespeare's enchanting comedy of love, magic and transformation in a boldly re-imagined new version created and performed by New York City's acclaimed SITI Company. Learn more...