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Hammer presents
Merry-Achi Christmas 2025
Hammer Presents Merry-Achi Christmas 2025!
Led by the incomparable José Hernández, Mariachi Sol de Mexico® returns to the Hammer Theatre Center for a festive musical tribute to Mexico’s Christmas traditions. Experience a multicultural celebration as the ensemble sings and plays holiday favorites from both Mexico and America in a vibrant performance you won’t want to miss.
Hammer presents
Cool Yule 2025
Bay Area music lovers can chill out this holiday season with San José State University Jazz Orchestra’s Cool Yule, a lively concert of holiday classics with a jazzy swing at the Hammer Theatre Center. Directed by Dr. Aaron Lington, this annual tradition features top SJSU music majors performing yuletide favorites with a cool twist. The San José Mercury News praises Dr. Lington’s playing as “revelatory…he obviously relishes the beautiful, blustery bark of his instrument…”
This year’s concert will feature students from San Jose Jazz All Stars.
Hammer presents
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
National Theatre Live is the British National Theatre’s groundbreaking initiative to broadcast world-class theatre to movie screens. Each broadcast was filmed in front of a live audience in London, with cameras carefully positioned throughout the auditorium to ensure that viewers get the “best seat in the house” view of each production. This is NOT a live performance, rather it is a high-definition film of the stage production captured live at the British National Theatre.
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MISSION:
A distinctive, high-quality, San Jose State University-operated performance venue in the heart of downtown San Jose; presenting work by and representative of San Jose State University and serving the community through high-quality programming expressive of the unique characteristics and diverse cultures that comprise the greater Silicon Valley.