Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (Pregones/PRTT) presents the New York Premiere of Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind, collaboratively created by Grammy Award-winning musician Martha Gonzalez and Herb Alpert Award-winning writer Virginia Grise, and directed by Kendra Ware. The show conjures characters and stories from Helena María Viramontes’ novel Their Dogs Came with Them into a multifaceted sonic and visual landscape animated by Mexican and Afro-Cuban rhythms, jazz, funk, rock, and gospel. This all-in-one concert, concept album, and live theater performance sizzles with the drama of urban planning, gentrification, and identity explored in Viramontes’ novel and based on her childhood in East Los Angeles. New York City audiences will find vivid parallels with Robert Moses-era public works and the impact of the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway on local communities.

A strictly-limited two-night engagement, performances of Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind will take place October 18-19 at 7PM at Pregones Theater, 575 Walton Avenue, in the South Bronx. Tickets start at $25 and are available online at www.pregonesprtt.org and by phone at 718-585-1202.