Other productions of plays by Pipeliners—
Night Sky
Aldersgate Church Community Theatre
September 25-October 13, 2024
Amelie Chirhart, Christine Tankersley, Kate Ives, Patricia Nicklin in Night Sky by Patricia Connelly at Aldersgate Church Community Theatre
Theatre Review: ‘Night Sky’ at Aldersgate Church Community Theater
MD Theatre Guide
October 2, 2024
by Anne Valentino
Night Sky, a new play by Pipeline Playwright Patricia Connelly at Aldersgate Church Community Theater (ACCT), tells the story of Julia (Patricia Nicklin) who, now in her seventies, must grapple with the realities of her situation. Can she age in place or, will she be forced to move from the Bronx home she’s lived in for decades?
This is the central dramatic question driving “Night Sky.” The play meanders through several not wholly unexpected twists and turns as the characters struggle to accept just about the only realistic answer there is to this question.
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Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper
Echo Theatre, Dallas, Texas
May 9-25, 2024
Constance Gold Parry and Jared Culpepper in Echo Theatre's World Premiere of Ann Timmons' "Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper." (photo by Zack Huggins)
Echo Theatre’s ‘Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper’ digs deep into feminist author’s life
Dallas Morning News
May 16, 2024
by Manuel Mendoza
You may know Charlotte Perkins Gilman for The Yellow Wallpaper. An early example of the gothic horror genre it helped invent, her 1892 short story has long been a staple of high school and college literature courses. The details of her remarkable life are probably less familiar.
A new biographical play commissioned by Dallas’ Echo Theatre, making its premiere run in a first-rate production at the Bath House Cultural Center, rectifies that gap. The writer of Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper, Ann Timmons, knows her subject well. For 16 years, she toured in a one-woman show about Gilman. It shows.
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The Best Worst That Can Happen
Aldersgate Community Theater, Alexandria, Virginia
July 8 - 24, 2022
Heartwarming ‘Best Worst That Can Happen’ premieres at Aldersgate Church Community Theater
DC Theater Arts
July 10,2022
by Linda Kinney
Aldersgate Church Community Theater’s world premiere of Jean Koppen’s The Best Worst That Can Happen is a must-see for delightful and heartwarming theater. The play focuses on the relationship between a mother and daughter as the daughter navigates the loss of her mother’s memory. The mother worries about her daughter’s career and love life. The mother, Margie, is a retired theater teacher who likes to act out conversations and conflict with her book author daughter, Joanna.
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It’s My Party!
Echo THeatre, Dallas, SeptEmber 17 - October 10, 2021 LIve!
October 11 - 17, 2021 streaming
Photo by Zoë Kerr
REVIEW: RSVP fast to Echo Theatre’s ‘Party’
DallasVoice
September 28, 2021
by Rich Lopez
Being in the middle of some frightening new laws here in Texas that wage war on women and increase voting barriers, Echo Theatre reminds that those fights have been long fought. In the regional premiere of Ann Timmons’ It’s My Party! that tells the story of women’s fight to vote, history reminds that justice wins, but not without turbulence. If anyone’s feeling beaten by today’s recent legislation, Echo Theatre’s newest production can inspire and ignite.
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NEWS
LAtest Interview
Read about how the birth of Pipeline and our upcoming production in this interview from The Washington Beacon, October 2024.
Upcoming PrODUCTIONS
Nicole Burton’s Christmas play Starman, Wish Me Luck will be produced at the Iron Horse Theatre Company in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, from December 6-21, 2024. It is part of a holiday show featuring three one-act plays. Info at www.ironhorsetheatrecompany.com
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
Pat Connelly’s play Night Sky, exploring bonds of family and friendship, as well as changes brought on by aging. was produced by Aldersgate Church Community Theatre in Alexandria, VA September 27 - October 13.
Recent Readings
Ann Timmons’ one-act In Good Conscience, or The Manumissionist? had its premiere reading in New York on October 20 at 2 p.m. Presented by Art at First, at the First Presbyterian Church in the city of New York.
Ann Timmons’ one-act Ida v. Frances: The Very Public Feud of Ida B. Wells and Frances Willard will be read as part of the The Quaker Arts Salon, Saturday, September 14 at 3:30 p.m. at the historic 15th Street Meetinghouse, New York City.
Other NEWS FroM PIPELINE PLAYWRIGHTS
Jean Koppen’s play Unfocused, first presented by Pipeline Playwrights, is now published and available for purchasing and licensing by Next Stage Press! It will be on the shelf at NYC’s storied Drama Book Shop in May, 2024.
Grace’s monologue from Jean Koppen’s recently produced play Unprotected is published in Smith & Krauss’ Best Women’s Stage Monologues for 2023.
Jean Koppen's Got a Light? presented by Pipeline Playwrights at the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival is published in Smith & Kraus' Best Ten-Minute Plays 2022. The compilation is available for purchase on Amazon.
Jean Koppen’s play The Best Worst That Can Happen, presented in Pipeline's 2019 reading series, is now published and licensed by Next Stage Press! Copies are available for purchase here.
Nicole Burton's novel about the Sixties, Adamson's 1969, is now available in audiobook at Amazon.com, Audible.com, Kobo.com, and many library formats including Overdrive. Adamson's 1969 was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Awards under the General Fiction category.
Monologues from Ann Timmons' A Very Present Presence (Zoom World Premiere, June 2021) and Crystal Adaway’s The Wish are published in the volume She Persisted: Monologues from New Plays by Women over 40, published by Applause Books.
