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Celebrate the season with Center Repertory Company's inspiring family favorite, A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens' most enduring tale of hope and celebration, A Christmas Carol plays at the Dean Lesher Regional Center in Walnut Creek for the eighth year. This production is hailed by critics as "the" Christmas Carol to see in the Bay Area. From the tragically doomed Jacob Marley to the incurably optimistic Tiny Tim, Rep's A Christmas Carol is sure to warm the wintry heart of even the most hard-nosed Scrooge! Learn more...

The Diablo Symphony presents A Festival Of Carols. They'll be performing all your favorite traditional holiday songs, plus holiday-themed works by composers ranging from Giovanni Pergolesi and Gustav Holst to John Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber. They'll be joined by the Contra Costa Children's Chorus. Learn more...

Center Rep presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's classic comedy in which quarreling mortal lovers in the forest fall afoul of Titania and Oberon, the Queen and King of the Fairies. The "rude mechanicals", a band of lovably incompetent tradesmen rehearsing a play, are also caught up in the chaos. Learn more...

The Pacific Chamber Symphony presents a salute to the American Radio Hour, featuring the music of Gershwin, Copland, Ives, Sousa and more at the Dean Lesher Regional Center. Learn more...

Diablo Ballet presents their season finale at the Dean Lesher Regional Center. A Stravinsky Celebration includes the world premiere of Nikolai Kabaniaev's Petrushka, to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Learn more...

The Dean Lesher Regional Center presents 3 evenings of jazz, featuring an exciting line-up of talent that represents the diversity and beauty of jazz. Artists scheduled to appear include Dick Conte, David Sancious, Pyeng Threadgill, Greg Jasperse and more! Learn more...

This hilarious mystery thriller has more twists and turns than a Le Mans race concourse. It all begins with a sex-starved wife and her English lover. What happens next is truly a mystery. Who is trying to murder whom? And why? Don't look away, for even a second! Learn more...

Ain't Misbehavin' is a swinging, finger-snapping tribute to the African-American musicians of the 1920s and '30s who were part of the Harlem Renaissance -- an era of growing creativity, cultural awareness and ethnic pride. The musical captures the spirit and joyousness of the Renaissance music and showcases classic Fats Waller tunes like "Honeysuckle Rose," "Black and Blue" and, of course, the title song. Learn more...

Directed by Tony award nominee Randal Myler, this Broadway-bound production marks the West Coast premier of Almost Heaven: John Denver's America. The biographical musical follows the life of John Denver, and includes his famous songs like "Sunshine on My Shoulder," "Rocky Mountain High" and "Annie's Song." Learn more...

Fate and timing bring three very different actresses together to rehearse Anton Chekov's The Three Sisters. There's the innocent actress, the TV star trying to incorporate stage work into her repertoire, and the hardened pro celebrating her 200th play without earning a salary. Like Chekov's three sisters, these three actresses try to maintain self-esteem and hope as they confront eccentric directors, critics, funding crises, and inept producers. Learn more...

Around The World In 80 Days is the thrilling tale of Phileas Fogg's race around the world. In Mark Brown's adaptation of this Jules Verne classic, five actors portray thirty-nine characters. This fast-moving and flat-out hilarious tour de force will delight adults and children alike. Center REP's production will be the second in the country after an acclaimed, three-time extended run at the B Street Theatre in Sacramento. Book your passage today for this high-spirited theatrical journey. Learn more...

Russ Lorenson stars in his new show Benedetto/Blessed: A Tribute to the Life and Music of Tony Bennett. The man Frank Sinatra called "the best singer in the business," Tony Bennett's star shines brighter than ever as he celebrates his 80th birthday this year. His birth name -- Benedetto -- means "blessed," an accurate adjective to describe both the man and his fans. Join Russ Lorenson as he pays tribute to this incredible artist. Learn more...

The Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, East County's only resident orchestra, will present a program of secular and sacred music marked by the influence of Hebraic traditions. The program will feature selections by Copland, Bernstein, Weill, and Max Bruch. Learn more...

You know you're in trouble when your therapist is crazier than you are! In Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy, Bruce and Prudence each place a personals ad that results in a disastrous romance set in a world even more neurotic than they are. Learn more...

Diablo Light Opera Company presents a fully staged concert version of Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon, a Scottish fantasy about a town that disappears into the Highland mist and returns for only one day every 100 years. The score includes "Almost Like Being in Love," "The Heather on the Hill," "I'll Go Home with Bonnie Jean" and "There But for You Go I." Learn more...

It's the California Symphony's 20th Anniversary, opening with John Williams' Happy Birthday Variations--one of America's favorite composers! Then, performing together in the Mozart Double Piano Concerto in E-Flat major (K.365), are child prodigies Peng Peng (age 13) and Conrad Tao (age 11). Einstein quoted "this concerto is a work of happiness, gaiety, overflowing richness of invention and joy in itself". And there's more great music--Brahms, and music played by Young American Composer-in-Residence Alumni. Learn more...

The Pacific Chamber Symphony performs works both classic and contemporary as part of their Chamber Concertos concert at the Dean Lesher Center for the Arts. Learn more...

In the fast-moving milieu of Madison Avenue, social drinking wreaks havoc on the lives of a young professional couple, resulting in a career in shambles, a marriage destroyed, the esteem of friends and family lost, and a child who has become the innocent victim of their obsession. Learn more...

Center Repertory Company presents Eugene O'Neill's tale of forbidden love, Desire Under the Elms. In life there are lines that shouldn't be crossed - but when they are, great drama is born. Desire Under the Elms is the sizzling story of a young bride, her handsome stepson and the pursuit of a dream that was their undoing. Learn more...