Featuring staged readings of
new works & more!
Aug 10–19
Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto
A Cutting-Hedge
Suburban Comedy
Gardens
Aug 22–Sept 16
Mountain View Center
for the Performing Arts
Tony Award Best Musical FHOUMNE
Oct 3–28
Mountain View Center
for the Performing Arts
42 South Bay Accent
CALENDAR
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theatreworks.org
tography, painting. Open daily. East side of
Dolores Street between Ocean and Seventh
streets, Carmel. 831/624-3369.
Works/San Jose. Founded in 1977 as an
alternative art and performance center to challenge
the boundaries of contemporary art.
Open Thursday through Saturday during
exhibitions, times vary. 365 S. Market St., San
Jose. 408/300-6405.
Tours
Cantor Arts Center Highlights. Saturdays
and Sundays, 1 p.m. This introductory tour
highlights objects from a variety of cultures
and historic periods and provides a history of
the museum and the Stanford family. Meet
in the main lobby. Free. Open Wednesday
through Monday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (until 8
p.m. Thursday). Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328
Lomita Drive, Stanford. 650/723-3469.
Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph. Tuesday
through Thursday, 1 to 3 p.m. One-hour
docent-led tours of California’s oldest parish,
downtown staple and national historical
landmark. Free. 80 S. Market St., San Jose.
408/283-8100.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library. Thursdays,
11:30 a.m. Learn about the 34 public art
installations throughout the library, including
a revolving secret door and tables shaped like
the continents. Free. 150 E. San Fernando St.,
San Jose. 408/808-2181.
Mission Santa Clara de Asis. Named after
Saint Claire of Assisi, this mission serves as the
Santa Clara University chapel, just south of
the San Jose airport. Free. Open daily 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Free. 500 El Camino Real, Santa
Clara. 408/554-4023.
Montalvo Arts Center. Learn about Senator
Phelan’s country home, his life and his friends,
the arts center then and now and much more.
Tickets are free for Montalvo members and
one guest; $10 per person for non-members.
Montalvo Arts Center, 14000 Fruitvale Ave.,
Saratoga. 408/961-5858.
Outdoor Sculpture Walk. First Sunday of
every month, 2 p.m. This tour explores
the Stanford campus and its extensive
outdoor collection of 20th-century
sculpture. Meet at the Main Quad
entrance, where The Oval meets
Serra Street. Free. Stanford University,
Stanford. 650/723-3469.
Rengstorff House. Tuesdays and
Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This tour
explores one of the best examples of Victorian
Italianate architecture on the West Coast,
and the historic house’s antique furnishings
and décor. Free. 3070 N. Shoreline
Blvd., Mountain View.
650/903-6392.
Rodin Sculpture Garden and
Galleries. Wednesdays at 2
p.m., Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. and Sundays at
3 p.m. This tour features the three indoor galleries
devoted to Rodin’s work along with 20
bronzes in the Rodin Sculpture Garden. Meet
in the main lobby. Free. Cantor Arts Center,
328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. 650/723-3469.
San Jose Museum of Art Gallery Tours.
Tuesday through Sunday, 1 p.m. and 2:30
p.m. Docents conduct public tours of exhibitions.
Signed tours for hearing-impaired visitors
may be booked on request. Tickets $5-$8.
San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St.,
San Jose. 408/271-6883.
Stanford Memorial Church. Fridays, 2 p.m.
This tour explores the Memorial Church, the
physical heart of the campus that is replete
with stained-glass windows, mosaics and stone
carvings. Meet at the church entrance in the
Main Quad. Free. Stanford University, Stanford.
650/723-3469.
Winchester Mystery House. Opens daily at
9 a.m. Tour times vary. Docents take visitors
through the strange mansion and its surrounding
property on the Grand Estate Tour, Mansion
Tour and Behind the Scenes Tour. Tickets
$20-$49. Winchester Mystery House, 525 S.
Winchester Blvd., San Jose. 408/247-2101.
Kate Quigley,
Aug. 9–12, Rooster T.
Feathers, Sunnyvale