The Community College of Rhode Island Players’ 2025-26 season continues this week.

From Thursday through Sunday, the program will conduct five performances of “Pipeline”, a play originally written by American playwright Dominique Morisseau. Performances are set for Nov. 13, 14 and 15 at 7:30 p.m. ET, and Nov. 15 and 16 at 2 p.m.

The play will be directed  by adjunct professor Jay Are Adams and held at the Bobby Hackett Theater on CCRI’s Knight Campus in Warwick, R.I. Tickets are available online and priced at $5 for CCRI students; $10 for seniors, college students and CCRI employees; and $20 for general admission.

Nominated for Outstanding Play at the 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards, “Pipeline” features themes of racial inequality in education, class disparities, parental duty and love, and the intersection of race, education, and family.

A synopsis from CCRI Theatre Program Coordinator Ted Clement:

“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. 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?”

In a 2017 review, Variety’s Marilyn Stasio described the play as and “emotionally harrowing, ethically ambiguous drama that raises barbed questions about class, race, parental duty, and the state of American education.”

The full cast list is as follows:

• Alivia Verasammy (Nya)
• Evan Mojica (Omari)
• Devin Rosa (Dun)
• I’Niyah Grear (Jasmine)
• Emma Estrella (Laurie)
• Anthony Sanchez (Xavier)
• Leila Hoskins (Ensemble)
• Felix Burns (Ensemble)
• Lee W. Carroll (Ensemble)

After this week's performances wrap up, CCRI Players will turn its focus toward showings of "The SpongeBob Musical" in early March. Visit the program's website for full scheduling details.