Step into a world of timeless stories and captivating performances with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's upcoming 2024-2025 season. From the romantic whimsy of 'MISS BENNET: Christmas at Pemberley' to the riveting narrative of 'HERSHEY FELDER: Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,' this season promises a diverse range of emotions and theatrical experiences. Audiences can expect to laugh, cry, and ponder with productions like 'HAPPY PLEASANT VALLEY: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical' and the cultural exploration in 'The Heart Sellers.' This season, TheatreWorks invites you to explore different times and places through brilliant storytelling.

A Theatrical Journey Through Time and Space with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is set to dazzle audiences in 2025 with a compelling lineup of performances at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. The season kicks off with 'HERSHEY FELDER: Rachmaninoff and the Tsar', a historical drama interwoven with music, followed by the vibrant musical 'HAPPY PLEASANT VALLEY'. Audiences will also be treated to the introspective 'The Heart Sellers' and the nostalgic '5 & Dime'. Each event promises to offer a unique experience, blending history, comedy, and culture through thought-provoking storytelling and captivating performances.

Unveiling TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's Diverse 2025 Season

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley brings an exciting array of performances to the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in 2025. With a mix of historical drama, musical comedy, and poignant narratives, this season promises to captivate audiences. From Hershey Felder's musical journey with Rachmaninoff and the last Russian Tsar, to a senior sex scandal in 'Happy Pleasant Valley,' and touching immigrant stories in 'The Heart Sellers,' each production offers a unique experience. Dive into the diverse storytelling and rich cultural contexts of these must-see theatrical events.

Exploring TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's Diverse 2025 Line-Up

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is set to captivate audiences with a series of engaging performances. 'HAPPY PLEASANT VALLEY: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical' promises laughter and infectious songs. 'The Heart Sellers' will take the audience back to 1973, exploring the lives of two immigrants. Lastly, '5 & Dime' invites you to a Texas town reunion of a fan club dedicated to the iconic James Dean. These productions, held at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, offer a diverse array of stories that promise to entertain and provoke thought.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Presents a Trio of Intriguing Productions

Watergate. Soul Train. Thanksgiving. And a frozen turkey. It’s 1973, shortly after the Hart-Celler Act abolishes immigration quotas in America and two immigrants, one Filipino, one Korean, meet by chance, strangers in a strange land.

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The Heart Sellers

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

A risqué romp of a musical for the digital age, this joyful mystery brims with laughter and erupts with infectious song.

HAPPY PLEASANT VALLEY: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical

Hershey Felder brings the composer to life, joined by British-Italian Jonathan Silvestri as Tsar Nicholas II. They weave the haunting story of the Romanoff family, and the maestro’s relationships with them, into a mystical journey.

HERSHEY FELDER: Rachmaninoff and the Tsar

Move over Charles Dickens, Jane Austen is here for the holidays! This charming seasonal comedy is a romantic sequel to Pride and Prejudice, told with Regency respect but a modern sense and sensibility.

MISS BENNET: Christmas at Pemberley

Friendship is a slam dunk in this warm, funny, and fulfilling new comedy by Pulitzer Prize nominee Rajiv Joseph.

King James

A towering giant of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim chronicled the loves and losses, breakdowns and breakthroughs of human relationships in a wealth of unforgettable musicals, from Into the Woods and A Little Night Music to Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, Company—and many more. With brilliant wit, exquisite melodies, and astonishing lyrics, he became TheatreWorks’ most-produced composer of all time. In this revelatory world-premiere revue, his profound understanding of the human heart takes center stage once again.

Being Alive A Sondheim Celebration

Ivy-League graduates and squabbling siblings Albert and Jennifer Chen spent their whole childhoods totally crushing it. But adulthood? Epic fail. After he’s passed over for a promotion and her loser boyfriend ghosts her, they do what any self-respecting thirtysomethings would do: Blame their parents and run away to China. Problem solved...right? (Spoiler alert: Wrong. So, so wrong.) From the OC to Shenzen, Mike Lew’s hilarious new satire is a claws-out look at the triumphs and traumas of tiger parenting and what it takes to make it out the other side alive.

Tiger Style

What if all the bees abandoned their queen? In this high-stakes environmental drama, best friends Sanam and Ariel—PhD candidates from India and the U.S.—research the collapse of bee colonies worldwide, dreaming they themselves might collapse the glass ceiling of academia. When a flaw emerges in their research, their friendship, careers, and even an arranged marriage are at risk. With ecological disaster on the horizon, should they withdraw their findings or compromise them to protect the planet?

Queen

Lucie Stern Community Theatre

Captivating audiences around the world, including on Broadway, in London’s West End, and more, Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone illuminates the life and music of the legendary tunesmith whose work shaped a distinctly American style of music. Enjoy a brilliant evening of stories behind the music, and iconic works such as “A Rhapsody in Blue,” “I Got Rhythm,” “’S Wonderful,”  and many more.

Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone

One of the greatest playwrights of our time returns to the stage in this open-hearted memoir charting one man’s journey of self-discovery through adversity, and what it means to be a Black artist in America. Originally performed by August Wilson himself, How I Learned What I Learned recounts his early days as a young poet, his first few jobs, encounters with racism, a stint in jail, divine connection with music, and the luminosity of love. Helmed by Artistic Director and acclaimed Wilson interpreter Tim Bond, and brought to life by award-winning actor Steven Anthony Jones, this captivating production provides unique insights about the man behind some of the most celebrated plays of the 20th century.

August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned

Six ambitious, hilarious middle schoolers—played by some equally-hilarious adults—go head-to-head in this riotous musical, directed by Tony Award-winner James Monroe Iglehart (Broadway’s Aladdin and Hamilton). The rules here are simple: Prove you’re the best speller on stage, and you secure a spot at the national spelling bee. Falter on “hasenpfeffer” or “crepuscular” and nothing but a consolation juice box awaits. Will your favorite fall to pressure and puberty, or emerge victorious? And which audience members will join them onstage as contestants themselves? Find out in the new classic that captures all the chaos, heartbreak, and elation of becoming a childhood champion.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

In 1926 Agatha Christie vanished, then reappeared eleven days later without explanation. It was a tabloid sensation—a mystery that, nearly a century later, remains unsolved. Fast forward to today: More than a little lost herself, a Christie superfan named Lucy makes the pilgrimage to the author’s estate. When she happens upon an unpublished diary written in Christie’s own hand, Lucy resolves to crack the case once and for all. In parallel storylines that blend past, present, and Poirot, Mrs. Christie proves that sometimes you need to disappear in order to find yourself.

Mrs. Christie

Head on over to Truvy’s Beauty Salon, where the curlers are hot and the gossip is hotter! Nestled in small-town Louisiana, it’s the place to go for the best ‘dos, the best advice (whether you asked for it or not), and the best friends you’ll ever meet. You’ll join Truvy, the irascible Ouiser, protective M’Lynn and her soon-to-be-wed daughter Shelby, and a host of other memorable women as they banter, bicker, and bond through the years, forging a sisterhood strong enough to carry them through all of life’s triumphs and tragedies.

Steel Magnolias

In a stunning, tour de force performance, virtuoso actor/pianist Hershey Felder creates Fryderyk Chopin, the “Poet of the Piano,” welcoming gifted students to his Paris salon in the 1840s. The students? You! Maestro Chopin hosts an intimate evening of enthralling music, sharing secrets of his little-known romances, exuberant personality, and intense vision of the art of the piano. Come share the spirit and insight of a genius brought to life before your eyes.

Hershey Felder as Monsieur Chopin

A pioneering doctor wants a full-time successor. A loving husband wants a full-time family. And Nan wants it all. She is the brilliant lab assistant of good-humored Dr. Papanicolaou, the life-saving inventor of the Pap smear. In this frank and funny, engaging audience favorite from our New Works Festival, Nan has mysteries to unravel and life-changing choices to make. But who can unwind the mysteries of the heart?       

Nan and the Lower Body

TONY AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL

This timeless musical masterpiece celebrates the soaring sounds and hopeful spirit of America at the dawn of the last century. To the syncopated rhythms of a hopeful new age, this unforgettable theatrical tapestry interweaves the delights of vaudeville, baseball, and nickelodeon with the hurly-burly of labor rallies and racial unrest, tracing the lives of an enterprising Jewish immigrant, a courageous Harlem pianist, and a conflicted upper-class wife in a jubilant, inclusive tribute to the American Dream

Ragtime

Set in the 1970s in a ramshackle Texas town, 5 & Dime follows a group of friends as they celebrate the 20th reunion of their fan club “The Disciples of James Dean.”  Based on Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean by Ed Graczyk.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

Jun 18 - Jul 13, 2025

5 & Dime

2 - 27 Apr, 2025

The Heart Sellers

5 - 30 Mar, 2025

HAPPY PLEASANT VALLEY: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical

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