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HAPPY PLEASANT VALLEY: A SENIOR SEX SCANDAL MURDER MYSTERY MUSICAL

Book, Music & Lyrics by Min Kahng

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

March 5 - 30, 2025

A risqué romp of a musical for the digital age, this joyful mystery brims with laughter and erupts with infectious song. The fun is ageless in this tale of a Gen Z “influencer” whose tenacious Korean American grandmother has much to teach her about life, sex, and murder in a senior citizens home you will never forget. Redefining “active living” in the golden years, this hit from our 2023 New Works Festival explodes social taboos around aging while celebrating intergenerational connection.

Happy Pleasant Valley is the recipient of a Kurjan/Butler commission from TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.

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PEOPLE OF THE BOOK

HAPPY PLEASANT VALLEY: A SENIOR SEX SCANDAL MURDER MYSTERY MUSICAL

by Yussef El Guindi

Urban Stages

October 4 - November 3, 2024

Jason returns from war to literary glory after writing an international best-seller, but his celebrity is underscored by his marriage to Madeeha, an Iraqi woman he saved. When he reunites with old friends, Amir and Lynn, questions emerge about the veracity of the book and its particular patriotic American gaze. Lust, jealousy, and personal politics bring things between old friends to a boiling point and we are asked “what is the expense of lies – personally and as a country?”

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THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT

HAPPY PLEASANT VALLEY: A SENIOR SEX SCANDAL MURDER MYSTERY MUSICAL

THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT

by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrrell and Gordon Farrell

Based on the Essay/Book by John D'Agata and Jim Fingal

Riverside Theatre

Iowa City, IA

April 18- 25, 2025

An eager intern at a top literary magazine is given a career-making assignment – fact-checking a new work by a celebrated essayist. The only problem is, most of the facts in the essay are embellished, adjusted, or just plain made up! Details wrestle with truth when the intern travels thousands of miles to confront the essayist, with the deadline looming.

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THE BERLIN DIARIES

DOROTHY'S DICTIONARY

THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT

by Andrea Stolowitz

Theater J

Washington, DC

June 4 - 22, 2025

Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz opens the pages of her great-grandfather’s journal to discover a previously unknown genealogy that propels her on a search for home, heritage, and repairing her own story within the Jewish diaspora.

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DOROTHY'S DICTIONARY

By E.M. Lewis

Oregon Contemporary Theatre

February 1 - March 9, 2025

Words are powerful…books can transform. Zan doesn’t want to read to Dorothy, and she’s not too sure she wants him to! But his community service assignment is not optional. Gradually, book by book, the two of them form an unexpected friendship…Just when they need it most.

Winner of the Portland Civic Theater Guild New Play Award

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THE BERLIN DIARIES

DOROTHY'S DICTIONARY

by Andrea Stolowitz

CenterStage Rochester

March 16 -25, 2025

Hidden secrets are revealed when a great-grandfather’s Holocaust-era diary sends a young woman on a “Finding Your Roots” style journey of discovery across the globe on a quest to fill in the missing branches of her family tree. Two dynamic performers play dozens of roles in this contemporary play about the search for home and the family you never knew existed.

A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere

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