The California's Seating In General 

The California Theater is an intimate, comfortable, and beautifully decorated hall, with 1,126 plush seats. No seat is more than 20 rows from the orchestra players or more than 20 seats from center. The theater's acoustics are excellent and the sound in the mezzanine is especially outstanding. There truly are no poor seats in this hall. Both the orchestra floor and balcony levels have seats in all four price categories.

The 5th Mesopotamian Night (2012) 2 DVDS and 2 CDs set is now available for sale

I first heard Rev. Samuel Khangaldy’s music at the 2009 Mesopotamian Nights production. It was the overture from the oratorio Gilgamesh and it was good stuff. The overture, about 15 minutes or so long, uses long and luscious lines in the tradition of the great symphonic poems by Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Liszt and Sibelius. “Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us,” said Boris Pasternak, and the Rev. Khangaldy’s music was such a gift.

Two Hotels in Downtown San Jose to accommodate our guests for the 6th Annual Mesopotamian Night concert on June 15, 2013

In the following article, Obelit Yadgar summarizes better than everyone else, the vision behind our Mesopotamian Night project. We are glad, he is back contributing to what he has passion for: promoting Assyrian Performing Arts.

The 6th Annual Mesopotamian Night (2013) to Present “The Epic of Ishtar-Tammuz” in Honor of late Rabi Simon Amirkhas. Sadly, Rabi Simon Amirkhas did not live long to witness his song performed by new and wonderful arrangements for the symphony orchestra by Honiball Yousef

On January 18, 2014, the community media center "CreaTV San Jose", announced the winners of its "2013 CreaTiVe Awards" in a ceremony held at the California Theatre in San Jose, CA. 

The Assyrian Aid Society of America "Mesopotamian Night 2012" film of the Malek Rama musical, with sound and video editing by Charles Pakbaz, was selected as a finalist in the "Non-profit 31+ minutes - Feature" category.