Cirque du Soleil presents OVO in San Jose. The Montreal-based company, whose mind-boggling acrobatic talent, lavish productions and colorful characters have become its hallmarks, delves into the world of insects. (thru March 7)
TheatreWorks presents Daddy Long Legs, a new musical romance by Paul Gordon about a precocious orphan sent to a prestigious college by a mysterious benefactor. (thru Feb 14)
City Lights Theater Co. presents Dead Man Walking, the adaptation of the Academy Award-winning film which tells the powerful story of a nun who tries to save the life and soul of convicted rapist and murderer. (thru Feb 21)
San Jose Rep presents The Weir, by Conor McPherson. A woman's move from Dublin to a "haunted" house in rural Ireland is the trigger for ghostly tales by locals that end up becoming liberating confessions of love, loss and loneliness. (thru Feb 21)
Opera San Jose performs Mozart's comic opera, The Marriage of Figaro. (thru Feb 21)
COMING UP:
SAP Tennis Open brings big shots back to San Jose. The 32-man field of singles players includes Roddick, Verdasco, Hewitt, Haas, Berdych, Stepanek and Nishikori, while Bay Area favorites Bob and Mike Bryan—the world's #1 ranked doubles team—are back, joining the 16-team field of doubles. (Feb 8-14).
San Jose Stage Company presents Tom Stoppard’s sweeping play, Rock ‘n’ Roll. Spanning two countries, three generations and 22 years, the story follows a Czech student and rock music fan; a drug-addled flower child; and a Communist English professor amid political turbulence. (Feb 10-Mar 7)
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