The playlist is the thing in TheatreWorks’ ‘A Driving Beat’

The playlist is the thing in TheatreWorks’ ‘A Driving Beat’

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is presenting the world premiere of a play that was a runaway hit at the company’s New Works Festival last year.

Presented in a rolling world premiere with Flint Repertory Theatre in Flint, MI, “A Driving Beat” runs Oct. 29-Nov. 3 at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts’ SecondStage.

The play, by Jordan Ramirez Puckett, follows a mother-son cross-country road trip peppered with the teen’s hip-hop music as a brown son and his white mother seek common ground in their uncommon pasts.

TheatreWorks will host a preshow artist talk Thursday, Oct, 30, at 6:30 p.m. and will hold post-show discussions with the cast on Wednesdays, Nov. 5, 12 and 19.

A performance with American Sign Language interpretation is set for Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7:30

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