Event

Pipeline

A mothers hopes for her son clash with an educational
system rigged against him in PIPELINE, the riveting new play
by Dominique Morisseau.
Nya (Karen Pittman) is an inner-city public high school
teacher who is committed to her students but desperate to
give her only son Omari opportunities theyll never have.
When a controversial incident at his 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, Obie-winning
playwright Dominique Morisseaus Pipeline brings an urgent
conversation powerfully to the fore. This Lincoln Center
Theater production directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz tells the
deeply moving story of a mothers struggle to see her son as
a whole human being and give him a future without turning
her back on the community that made him who he is.