City Lights Theater Company of San José

City Lights Theater Company creates and presents live plays and musicals for audiences in San Jose, California. Each year, it offers six plays at its 108-seat facility, complemented by podcasts, concerts, youth engagement programs, and other community-focused events, reaching more than 12,000 people. This grant to City Lights aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy, helping to ensure that communities in Santa Clara County have access to live productions that engage, inspire, and challenge them.

City Lights Theater Company reaches over 12,000 people annually with a season of six plays and musicals, a festival of new plays, concerts, and a summer youth conservatory. This organizational effectiveness grant supports internal capacity building to deepen the organization’s awareness, knowledge, skill, policies and practices around equity, inclusion and diversity. Helping individual grantee organizations develop their internal competencies for equity-focused work will in turn support the nonprofit arts field in the Bay Area to coalesce around common language and best practices for equity in the arts.

City Lights Theater Company reaches more than 12,000 people each year with a season of six plays and musicals, a new plays festival, concerts, and a summer youth conservatory. With its 108-seat facility in downtown San Jose, City Lights Theater Company successfully attracts audiences, especially adults under the age of 45, through its creative direction and innovative audience engagement efforts.