TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Presents "Ragtime" at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will celebrate its 50th birthday in April 2020 with the return of the timeless hit musical "Ragtime". Featuring the Tony Award-winning book by Pulitzer Prize finalist Terrence McNally ("Master Class," "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "The Rink") and the Tony Award-winning score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens ("Once on This Island," "Anastasia," "Seussical The Musical"), this musical is based on E. L. Doctorows best-selling novel of the same name. This sweeping and stirring musical masterpiece paints a portrait of America at the dawn of the twentieth century, interweaving the lives of three familieswhite, African-American, and immigrantfinding their places and pursuing the American Dream in a rapidly changing world. "Ragtimes" original 1998 Broadway production was deemed a A colossal hit by New York Post and received four Tony Awards. Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley will helm "Ragtime" once againhe was lauded for his direction of the hit production at TheatreWorks in 2002, which The Mercury News called A masterpiece.