The story is all new. The hits are all Elvis! Inspired by and featuring the hit songs of the great Elvis Presley.Love Me Tender, It's Now or Never, Heartbreak Hotel, Don't Be Cruel, Fools Fall in Love - over 20 of the King's hits make this an exhilarating new musical comedy whith a whole lot of shakin' going on.

Get ready to blast away all those recession cobwebs. Anyone who needs cheering up will revel in this fresh, exuberant and spiritually full-of-beans adventure. One of the best loved family musicals of all time, vividly bringing to life Dickens' memorable characters with its ever-popular story of the boy who asked for more. A timeless treat for the whole family.

Presented by Contra Costa Musical Theatre.

Agatha Christie's courtroom drama is an unsurpassed masterpiece of nail-biting suspense and twisty plotting. On trial for his life, Leonard Vole claims he was with his wife at the time of the murder. But is she his alibi, or a damning witness for the prosecution that will seal his doom? This classic from the undisputed Queen of Crime will keep you guessing right up to its final, hair-raising curtain.

Back for it's 12th smash year, this holiday classic is better than ever. Brimming with music and dance, love and laughter, spectacular special effects and scary ghosts, it's no wonder the critics have call it "THE Christmas Carol to see in the Bay Area." Join the thousands who make this theatrical event part of their annual holiday traditions.

Emmy award-nominee Harold Gould stars as the brilliant but cantankerous Francis Biddle, attorney general under FDR and Chief Judge of the Nuremberg trials. It's 1967, Biddle is 81 years old and trying to put his life in order with the help of a new, 25 year old secretary. This beautifully written drama with an abundance of heart and humor shows how two strangers, who are worlds apart, can unexpectedly and forever influence each other.

Forget baseball, hot dogs and apple pie. Nothing is more American than Oklahoma! Over six decades ago, a wonderful, fresh show caught the imagination and patriotic passion of wartime America and launched the most successful songwriting partnership in Boradway history. The hallmark Rodgers and Hammerstein score includes such classics as The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, People Will Say We're in Love and the infectious title song. A glorious reminder of just how life-enhancing a musical can be. Oh what a beautiful show!

Presented by Contra Costa Musical Theatre

The funniest play ever written. Period. Grown men weep with laughter. Ladies have to be carried out of the theatre. Diabolically constructed, relentlessly clever, and mercilessly hilarious, Noises Off is the ultimate backstage farce. Depicting the onstage and backstage antics of a fifth-rate acting troup, it's a sidesplitting symphony of "Seven slamming doors, one breaking window, 10 trips up and down stairs, 17 false entrances, 46 miscues, 22 double entendres, six regular entendres and a million laughs!".

"I'm an enormously talented man, and it's no use pretending I'm not!" Thus spake Noël Coward. This Bay Area premiere is an exhilarating evening of song and sparkling repartee, filled with Coward's witty lyrics and contagious melodies. Created by and starring the multi-talented team from the REP hit 2 Pianos 4 Hands, this is a singing, dancing, piano-playing evening of show-stoppers that provides "endless delights!" raved the LA Times. Filled with classic Coward confections like Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Why Do the Wrong People Travel and Mad About the Boy, this is one marvelous party you don't want to miss. "A blissful and flawless revue!" gushed the Seattle Times.

They're BAAACK! Performing the show that ade them an international sensation. The original Bad Boys of Abridgement are returning to Center REP with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see what critics around the world have called "one of the funniest shows you are likely to see in your entire lifetime!"

Some consider her one of the world's greatest living playwrights and her latest play A Number, the first true play of the 21st century. What would you do if you had cloned a child 35 years earlier, and now the past is coming to call with some very tough questions?