ABOUT

THE VILLAGE OF VALE

A NEW MUSICAL FANTASY

THE STORY

When a nameless traveler returns to the village that exiled her long ago, her quest for justice becomes intertwined with the lives of villagers—an obsessed bookkeeper, a haunted widow, and a proud family of woodcutters—as she unearths a secret that could change them all forever.

An original fantasy both epic and intimate, THE VILLAGE OF VALE is a moving story of love, loss, betrayal, and forgiveness, that asks what happens when the only way to keep one promise is to break another.

THE PROJECT

The Village of Vale had its first stage workshop production at The Invisible Dog Arts Center in Brooklyn in 2015.  It was further developed at New Victory Labworks at the New Victory Theater during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons. In addition, the show received early support from MIDDSummer Play Lab at Middlebury College. The Village of Vale debuted at Lincoln Center for a limited engagement production in the fall of 2017.  Vale has since received developmental support through a writing residency at Bethany Arts Community (NY) in 2018 and a workshop and reading at Kansas City Rep’s Monday Night Playwright Series (directed by Lisa Rothe) in December, 2019.  In 2020, the creative team was selected to participate in the 8th Annual Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals and in 2021 Vale was featured in New York Theater Barn’s New Works Series. The team recently completed post-production on the first two episodes of the 7-episode series. 
The Village of Vale is a new musical by writers Jonathan Karpinos, John McGrew, and Joseph Varca and developed with TONY Award winning producer Jane Dubin and director Lisa Rothe.