Teatro Vision

Only one more weekend to go for Bless Me, Ultima: The Play. This is an adaptation of a classic Chicano novel about a young man growing up in New Mexico, protected by a healer. There’s a lot about the tension between healers, witches and the Catholic church. There’s a lot about small-​town culture and the losses from the war and family vendettas. There’s a lot of music. Ultimately, the play is heartwarming and magical. It’s not a perfect play, and suffers from the problems of adapting a novel for the stage, but I really enjoyed it.
Tip: don’t get seats in the first two rows as you have to crane your neck to see the supertitles. I moved at intermission. The play is mostly in English and if you miss the relatively few lines that are in Spanish it won’t hurt your enjoyment of the play too much, but it was annoying, and the first row is a little too low with respect to the stage anyway.
Aside from that, it’s a nice auditorium and the play makes effective use of the huge stage.
Family-​friendly for perhaps 13 and older. There is some violence and some cursing in Spanish.
Full disclosure: I know one of the actors.

Teatro Vision is quintessentially San Jose. It is a local company that does a wide range of theatre. It offers Chicano expression that touches everyone regardless of background.
It is smart, funny, tragic, artsy, real, and extraordinary. I am very biased, having worked with them occasionally.