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The San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (CPA), is a large public concert hall and theatrical venue in Downtown San Jose, California USA. It is the performance home of Ballet San Jose, and is the venue for many touring Broadway plays and theatrical concert perfomances in San Jose. It is located at 255 Almaden Boulevard and it's original name was the San Jose Community theater.

The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright foundation architects William Wesley Peters, and Aaron Green. Construction was completed and the building opened in 1972. The auditorium seating is of continental design (no center aisle) and has seating for 2,665 patrons. It features a striking

It was formerly the home of the San Jose Symphony until its suspension and dissolution in 2001, and the American Musical Theatre of San Jose (until it's dissolution in 2008). Symphony Silicon Valley, an orchestra under new management but including many of the same musicians, was created in that same year and succeeded the San Jose Symphony as the professional symphony orchestra of San Jose.

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The San Jose Center for the Performing Arts is located in downtown San Jose, California. It is home to Ballet San Jose and Broadway San Jose. The center's auditorium has 2,677 seats, split into 1,921 orchestra and 756 balcony seats. It also has two smaller rooms, the Private Ridder Lounge with capacity for 150 and the Private President's Club with capacity for 50.

The venue (originally commissioned in 1965) was designed by architect William Wesley Peters and Aaron Green of Taliesin Associated Architects, both protégés of Frank Lloyd Wright. The building’s soft curves and graceful lines are testament to Wright’s stylized, organic style, which was influenced by his visits to Japan in the early part of the 20th century.

[Founding of the San Jose/Cleveland Ballet (1985) Interestingly, the stage of San Jose Center for the Performing Arts was too shallow for ballet at that time and a generous Steve Wozniak came to the ballet’s rescue, gallantly underwriting a renovation which included a new deeper stage. In 1985, the company put on its first San Jose ballet, a completely sold out “Nutcracker” choreographed by Dennis Nahat himself.

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