The San Jose Rep announced today that they were officially closing and filing for bankruptcy.  It's quite sad from a cultural point of view - a city as big as San Jose can't support its own theater company? - but honestly, I'm not that surprised ( Read more... )

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The musical Spring Awakening keeps popping up in the South Bay; over the past few years I think three different theatre companies have shown it. (Theatreworks in Mountain View, Broadway San Jose, and now the San Jose Rep.) The first time I heard about it, I wasn't interested. The second time, I was surprised to see it re-appear so soon, but ( Read more... )

San Jose Rep is currently performing As You Like It, and since this seems to be the Year of Shakespeare for me Seanie and I decided to get tickets. (It helps that the Rep had a buy one, get one free promotion running.) It's been a year or two since I last saw a show by the Rep, but they usually have good entertainment.

So As You Like It was ( Read more... )