by Dominique Morisseau

Directed by Nicole Brewer

Preview March 25 at 7:30 p.m.

March 26 at 7:30 p.m.

March 27 at 7:30 p.m. with a Post-Show Talkback. ASL Interpreted, Audio Described

March 28 at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

March 29 at 2:00 p.m.

Tickets: $40 General Public, $19 Senior, $19 Student
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Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son, Omari, opportunities they’ll never have. Omari is torn between the future his mother sees for him, and his own struggles with identity and belonging in an environment that seems designed to test his boundaries. When a controversial incident at Omari’s upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away?

With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is. Directed by guest artist Nicole Brewer, this powerful and moving production offers George Mason University’s School of Theater students and audiences an opportunity to explore challenging ideas and build a stronger community together.

About the show: "Pipeline confirms Dominique Morisseau's reputation as a playwright of piercing eloquence." - The New York Times

"Pipeline is an emotionally harrowing, ethically ambiguous drama that raises barbed questions about class, race, parental duty, and the state of American education." - Variety

"Pipeline is at once an homage to such authors as Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka and yet firmly the product of a unique, deeply resonant sensibility." - Deadline