Intimate Off-Broadway-Style Theater

We operate in our own theatre facility in downtown San Jose. We produce five plays per season on an annual budget of approximately $850,000.00 and serve over 25,000 patrons each season.

Critical Acclaim & Box Office Hits
Considered by critics as the Bay Area's Premiere Off-Broadway Theatre, San Jose Stage Company has received national and international critical acclaim for many of its productions.

• San Jose Stage Company developed and produced the World Premiere of the musical CUMBERLAND BLUES. The popular production included the music of world-renowned songwriters Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter of The Grateful Dead.
• San Jose Stage Company's production of Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? was called "the best theater to come out of San Jose in 1996-97" by the San Jose Mercury News.
• During its production of GRACE AND GLORIE, the Mercury News gave "San Jose Stage an edge...as the South Bay's best non-musical theatre company."
• San Jose Stage Company has the distinction of producing the longest-running production in San Jose history, ANGRY HOUSEWIVES, which ran for 28 months.

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Commitment & Leadership in the Community
San Jose Stage Company is a leading force in the Bay Area's artistic community.

• San Jose Stage Company negotiated the first Small Professional Theatre Contract with the Actor's Equity Union, which affords the highest quality of talent for our productions.
• San Jose Stage Company was a pilot partner in Theatre Bay Area's Community Box Office Network, which provides professional box office services to a number of performing arts organizations.
• For 12 years, San Jose Stage Company and the City Of San Jose's Office of Cultural Affairs co-sponsored the Downtown Arts Series, which offered new and emerging arts organizations the opportunity to produce in a professional downtown venue.

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