Pipeline at The Art of Acting Studio

Pipeline

The Art of Acting Studio
1017 North Orange Drive Los Angeles

Morisseau's hard-hitting drama takes a deep look into the American educational system for underprivileged students. Nya is an inner-city high school teacher desperate to give her son opportunities that her students will never see. 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. Pipeline won the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and received its world premiere in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in 2017.

Thru - Aug 26, 2023

Wednesdays: 8:00pm

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Show Type: Drama

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Pipeline Reviews

Average Rating based on 3 reviews

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Stage and Cinema - Recommended

"...To the playwright's credit, we see six embattled characters from all sides - without judgment and from the inside out. But the moral "ground zero" here is Nya. Fighting off panic disorders and emotional paralysis, Nya agonizes that she can do nothing right to keep Omari from self-destructing. But she can't abandon him as his father seems to have done. This English teacher dreads the thought that Gwendolyn Brooks's urban lyric We Real Cool - a lament for and from doomed drop-outs (akin to Langston Hughes's Raisin in the Sun) - will come true for her sole son, especially the last line: "We die soon.""

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- Tony Frankel

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...The son of an African-American inner-city high school teacher struggles to fit into the posh private academy his divorced parents have sent him to in Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline, a critically acclaimed Lincoln Center hit whose gripping Los Angeles Premiere marks a major coup for the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company at The Art Of Acting Studio in Hollywood."

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- Steven Stanley

Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

"...Director Bryan Keith keeps an even keel on the proceedings, allowing each of his actors to establish a presence with their characters, especially Marcelin and Memba as a believably loving yet conflicted mother and son. Vanessa Fernandez'sprojection design, especially the opening sequence, and Ray Jones's evocative lighting, establish a suitable tone. Morisseau's ambiguous ending only highlights Nya's dilemma in fighting for her son. What else is a mother to do when the system is stacked against them both'"

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- Martín Hernandez

Pipeline at The Art of Acting Studio

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Pipeline Reviews

Stage and Cinema - Recommended

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

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