San Jose Stage

Covering The San Francisco Bay Area & Sacramento Valley Since 2001

San Jose Stage • 490 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113

Plays • Musicals • Opera • Dance

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Upcoming Production

• NOV 18 - DEC 20, 2026 •

Clue / Comedy Play

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A dinner invitation to Boddy Manor sounds harmless enough, until the guests discover that this gathering comes with secrets, suspicious behavior, and a host who will not be making polite conversation. Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and Mustard find themselves caught in a murder mystery where nearly everyone looks guilty and good manners are rapidly becoming useless. A questionable butler and an assortment of weapons do little to improve the atmosphere. As accusations fly and danger grows, the visitors must work out who is responsible before the evening becomes even more disastrous. Unfortunately, trusting the person beside you may be the worst idea in the room. Sandy Rustin’s stage comedy draws on the familiar board game and Jonathan Lynn’s film screenplay, turning its colorful suspects into participants in a frantic contest of nerves and deduction. The pleasure lies in watching these unlikely dinner companions struggle to stay ahead of the chaos while the audience tries to piece together the puzzle. Mischief, menace, and ridiculous predicaments share the table in a whodunit that makes an ordinary awkward dinner party look positively relaxing.

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• OPENS FEB 3, 2027 • The Full Monty / Musical Comedy In Buffalo, six unemployed steelworkers are looking for a way to recover their footing when an outrageous possibility presents itself: put together a strip show. It is hardly the career move anyone expected, but desperate circumstances can make a very unconventional business proposal sound surprisingly reasonable. Soon, these ordinary men are contemplating an extraordinary amount of exposure, and their biggest obstacles reach well beyond what they might wear onstage. Pride, insecurity, friendship, and the question of personal worth all become part of the preparation. The plan promises money, yet it also asks them to confront the uncomfortable feeling that losing a job means losing a piece of themselves. Based on the hit film, this musical pairs Terrence McNally’s book with David Yazbek’s music and lyrics, giving its unlikely performers room for both rowdy comedy and tenderness. Their scheme becomes the center of a story about men trying to rebuild confidence together when life has knocked them sideways. Funny, irreverent, and full of heart, The Full Monty invites audiences behind the bravado to meet people whose most daunting challenge may be believing they still have something worth offering.
• OPENS MAR 31, 2027 • Topdog/Underdog / Drama Play Lincoln and Booth have inherited names that sound like a history lesson and feel like a family joke that never stopped hurting. These brothers bring years of rivalry, resentment, and shared experience into a relationship where affection and competition are constantly jostling for space. Around them hovers the world of three-card monte, a street hustle built on quick hands, sharper instincts, and the dangerous belief that you can always spot the winning move. Here, being brothers does not make the rules any simpler. Each man wants some control over his life, but their past keeps finding its way into the present, making ordinary exchanges feel like contests over identity and power. Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama moves through this uneasy bond with dark humor and mounting tension. The jokes have an edge, the history carries weight, and the struggle to come out on top becomes more complicated with every encounter. Rather than offering an easy family reunion, Topdog/Underdog draws audiences into a volatile brotherhood where love, ambition, and survival share the same space, and confidence can be as deceptive as a card on the table.
• OPENS JUN 2, 2027 • Network / Satirical Drama Play Howard Beale has spent his career delivering the news, but the biggest story suddenly becomes Howard himself. When the veteran anchor abandons the script and breaks down on television, his outburst produces something the broadcasting business understands immediately: an audience. Programming chief Diana Christensen recognizes an opportunity, and personal turmoil begins turning into a marketable attraction. The machinery of television moves around a man whose anger has struck a public nerve, raising an unsettling question about who benefits when someone’s distress becomes must-see entertainment. Adapted by Lee Hall from Paddy Chayefsky’s Academy Award-winning film, Network brings viewers into a media world where ratings, corporate influence, and sensationalism keep pushing their way to the front of the broadcast. What begins with one anchor’s unraveling expands into a biting story about the people packaging outrage and the audience consuming it. Its humor comes with teeth, exposing the absurdity of a business that can measure attention more easily than responsibility. As Howard’s new public identity gathers momentum, the drama examines how quickly a human voice can become a product, and how difficult it is to keep control once the spectacle starts paying.