Wednesdays in Mississippi by Nicole Burton
Joe’s Movement emporium, November 10 - 12: 16-19,2023, Live! January 12 - February 8, 2024, streaming!
Here’s to the ladies who stood for civil rights, on ‘Wednesdays in Mississippi”
DC Theater Arts
November 13, 2023
by Debbie Minter Jackson
A world premiere from Pipeline Playwrights sheds light on civic-minded women from the North who traveled weekly to the South for social justice.
Wednesdays in Mississippi, a world-premiere play by Nicole Burton, shows the difference that women made collectively and individually to uproot longstanding racist societal barriers in the 1960s during Freedom Summer and beyond. The show sheds light on a little-known group of civic-minded Northern-based women who traveled weekly to various Southern sites, mostly in Mississippi, encouraging, funding, and coaching local groups to change. . .
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Theatre Review: ‘Wednesdays in Mississippi’ presented by Pipeline Playwrights at Joe’s Movement Emporium
MD Theatre Guide
November 13, 2023
by Anne Valentine
Nicole Burton’s “Wednesdays in Mississippi” depicts a snapshot of the Civil Rights movement as experienced by a group of women from northern regions of the country who traveled to cities and towns across Mississippi during the mid-1960s. Based on the award-winning book by Debbie Z. Harwell, their mission was to “build bridges of understanding” and, in this way, try to mitigate the racial violence and palpable hate that existed in pockets of the Mississippi region. Spearheaded by Dorothy Height and Polly Cowan, the efforts of this diverse crew of . . .
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Unprotected by Jean Koppen
Theatre on the Run, October 14 - 15, 20 - 23, 2022, live!
November 8 - 22, 2022 streaming!
A girl’s trauma at school precipitates ‘Unprotected’ by Pipeline Playwrights
DC Theatre Arts
October 17, 2022
by Gwyneth Sholar
An affecting and important new play by Jean Koppen that takes on harm, safety, and justice.
It sometimes feels as though smaller theater companies aren’t able to stage the most subversive material. I’ve often seen that the most groundbreaking art comes to the big names in the DMV, those with the most most time and resources to produce or commission it. But I always want to be proved wrong in that thought, because there is so much power in communal efforts, and so much to say within our communities. That’s why it felt fantastic to see Unprotected, produced by the Pipeline Playwrights collective in Arlington’s Theatre on the Run last week.
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Heartland by Patricia Connelly
JOE’S MOVEMENT EMPORIUM, JUNE 24- 26, 2022, LIVE!
JULY 20 - AUGUST 3, 2022 STREAMING!
Pipeline Playwrights’ heartfelt and timely ‘Heartland’ to stream on demand
DC Theater Arts
June 28, 2022
by Gregory Ford
Heartland is a heartfelt and timely piece of theater.
This production from women’s collective Pipeline Playwrights arrives at the same time that Roe v. Wade (the 50-year-old decision that acknowledged a woman’s right to an abortion) has been overturned by the post-Trump Supreme Court. The majority in that ruling hold views similar to the religious coalition represented in this play and are presumed to be planning (as announced by Judge Clarence Thomas in his concurring opinion) to overturn the right to access birth control, the legality of same-sex relationships, gay marriage, and other “demonstrably erroneous” decisions stemming from the Fourteenth Amendment. The stakes both onstage and in real life are high.
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A Very Present Presence by Ann Timmons
ZOOM WORLD PREMIERE, JUNE 2021
MD THEATRE GUIDE
‘A Very Present Presence’ presented by Pipeline Playwrights
By Mary Ann Johnson - June 06, 2021
In this world premier of Ann Timmons’ “A Very Present Presence,” we meet a middle-aged mother and career woman who has come to the end of her rope. The story may seem similar to many others (for those of a certain age, I was reminded of an episode of “One Day At A Time” from about 45 years ago), but is given a fresh spark by linking the present day to the lives of her great-grandmother and great-aunt.
. . . a fun, light-hearted look at sea changes in oneself and society at large. (read more…)
DC METRO THEATER ARTS
A woman’s liberation through generations in ‘A Very Present Presence’ from Pipeline Playwrights
By Darby DeJarnette - June 3, 2021
Can daughters and granddaughters ever really understand the internal experiences of their mothers and grandmothers?
A Very Present Presence, written by Ann Timmons and directed by Catherine Tripp, is the latest streaming offering from the women’s collective Pipeline Playwrights. Timmons states that this comedy examines “the theme of social and generational connection: the idea that individual choice is always shaped by experiences of/expectations from the past.” (read more…)