Pearl Ong, All-Night Cabby, Speeds to Lesbian Liberation by Zack Rogow Pearl Ong has certainly lived a larger-than-life story. She went from Hong Kong princess to joining the lesbian liberation scene in San Fra…

Bill English Spotlights Woman’s Liberation & Sexual Shenanigans  by Lynne Stevens In Director Bill English’s smart new “My Fair Lady,” a “street urchin,” a phonetics professor, and a military m…

In response to a sweeping and controversial leadership shakeup at the Kennedy Center, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) turned to the arts as a form of action. What began as a phone call to powerhouse produ…

By David Sheward July 3, 2025: In a program note for her play Trophy Boys (at MCC Theater), Emmanuelle Mattana observes, “Gender is a scam but it is also a gift. Drag is radical joy and liberation.” She is…

Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterNtombizodwa Nyoni’s deft and nuanced play balances ideologies and ambition, personality clashes and generational conflict at key 1945 Manchester conference Activist movements…

More than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers clicked their heels and created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come O…

Tony Award winner Alex Newell reminded us that there’s no better time for unity and activism than Pride – and that there’s truly no place like Broadway Bares – with a show-stopping live performance of �…

Mx. Oh’s politically provocative and often playful works, including the Off Broadway production “{my lingerie play},” asserted the right to be oneself while having fun.

Earlier this week, more than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out on…

More than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers clicked their heels and created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come O…

More than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out on Sunday, June 22, 2…

  Pamela L Paek (Playwright and Performer) relishes self-expression and creativity in as many forms as she can juggle, including solo shows, stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, physical comedy, and clown. P…

More than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out on Sunday, June 22, 2…

It was a turning point in the push for African independence – and it took place in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. We meet the writer of a play about the fifth Pan-African Congress On the facade of the buildin…

Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice. In playwright Jamie Wax’s one-hander “Call Me Izzy,” Jean Smart returns to Bro…

A large-scale multimedia production commemorating the final year of World War II in Europe will be performed at the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans on Friday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m., marking both the 81st anniversa…

In a historic debut at the Studebaker Theater, “She Who Dared” tells a story of pivotal figures who fought segregation alongside Rosa Parks.

Tara theatre, LondonHunia Chawla’s intimate drama is played out across continents to tell a platonic love story that examines the challenges to freedom in Pakistan and England What does liberation mean? That…

Outstanding Play Blood of the Lamb, by Arlene Hutton Deep Blue Sound, by Abe Koogler Grangeville, by Samuel D. Hunter John Proctor is the Villain, by Kimberly Belflower Liberation, by Bess Wohl WINNER – Purp…

Yesterday we told you about how the Outer Critics Circle celebrated the 2025 Award Winners and 75 Years of Theater Excellence. Today is part two of the inerviews first up Francis Joe presenting Outstanding Lead…

Now premiering at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre in a co-production with the MART Foundation and En Garde Arts, "Seagull: True Story" is a barbed, meta-theatrical cri de coeur from creator-director Alexander…

The winners of the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards have been announced. The Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending is the biggest winner, receiving a total of four awards, including Outstanding New Broadway M…

  “John Proctor is the Villain” was chosen as the outstanding Broadway play and “Maybe Happy Ending” was awarded outstanding Broadway musical and three other awards at the 75th annual Outer Critics Cir…

The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ family drama Purpose Best Play of the 2024-25 season. The announcement took place on May 5, the same day the play was awarded the Pulitzer…

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The 2025 NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS’ CIRCLE names their recipients. PURPOSE – BEST PLAY 2024-25 MAYBE HAPPY ENDING – NAMED BEST MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AWARDS TO ANDREW SCOTT FOR VANYA…

The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose Best Play of the 2024-25 season. The award for Best Musical went to Maybe Happy Ending, book by Will Aronson and Hue Park, music b…

The 40th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards – the only New York theatre award to exclusively honor Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway – are being presented tonight, Sunday, May 4, 2025, at NYU Skirball. The Lor…

The 2024-2025 theater season ends on Sunday with the dual openings of the musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves. And I’m exhausted. But it’s the kind of good exhaustion that comes from doing some…

Did you knit your scarf? A woman asked me while we were waiting in the line for the restroom. No! I wish I could, but I don’t know how to knit, I answered. You should join the knitting club, she said smiling …

“Moving too fast,” Jamie sings in The Last Five Years—and it’s not a bad way to describe Whitney White’s current pace. A rising force in American theater, White is a director, writer and performer, wh…

Nominations for the 40th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards were announced today by Francis Jue, star of Broadway’s Yellow Face, and Krysta Rodriguez, currently appearing in Smash on Broadway. The awards, produced…

Much like the women it centers on, Roundabout Theatre Company’s Liberation is rebellious and not just because it features nudity! Mainly I was struck by its violation of writing’s most cardinal rule: show d…

With women’s liberation at a crossroads and masculinity under scrutiny, "Theater: All the Moving Parts" explores two plays that challenge the dynamics of power, gender, and identity. Host Patrick Pacheco sp…

Entering “Buena Vista Social Club” is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of passionate music and dance. The Social Club was a real place for locals in Havana in the …

Pearl Ong Speeds to Lesbian Liberation as All-Night Cabby by Zack Rogow Pearl Ong has certainly lived a larger-than-life story. She went from Hong Kong princess to joining the lesbian liberation scene in San Fr…

Directed by Whitney White, the Roundabout Theatre Company production features Kristolyn Lloyd, Susannah Flood, Kayla Davion, and more.

Go backstage with the cast of Bess Wohl's hit Off-Broadway play, where the conversations have been tough, but the impact profound.

There is nothing about liberation, nor is there anything liberating in Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” currently running at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. There is …

Bess Wohl’s play about 1970’s feminist activism spotlights the struggles of what it takes to come into your own and claim your light. The Roundabout Theatre Company production is now playing at Laura Pels …

The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. L to R: Adina Verson, Irene Sofia Lucio, …

The cast of Liberation. Photo by Joan Marcus. “The personal is political” was one of the many rallying cries of the second-wave feminist move…

An intricately layered memory play that's more complicated than it seems. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Liberation at the Laura Pels Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

1970, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a small group of women to talk. But talking quickly becomes a necessary and bracingly funny attempt to change their own lives and the world. Fifty years later, her daughter is shocked…

Backstage Bite is back! Join BroadwayWorld's Katie Lynch in the kitchen as she hosts some of Broadway's brightest to eat, drink and merrily mix it up. See your favorite stars out of their element as they whip u…

We teamed up with the creatives behind Roundabout’s Liberation, Bess Wohl and Whitney White to make a 1970s-inspired cheese ball for the latest installation of Backstage Bite! Head to the link in our bio to l…

Multi-instrumentalist and jazz composer Avram Fefer and his amazing cast of musicians combine their talents for an exciting evening of groove-based modern jazz. With influences from Africa and the Middle East, …

Backstage Bite is back! In this episode, Katie is joined in the kitchen by the creators of Roundabout's hit play, Liberation- playwright Bess Wohl and director Whitney White. Watch in this video as they join f…

Bess Wohl’s latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women’s Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contemporary point of view. C…

It’s hard to imagine our mothers’ lives when they were young women. What were their plans, goals, dreams? Do they have regrets? This is the premise of Bess Wohl’s new play, Liberation, presented by Rounda…

By: David Sheward January 21, 2025. The trouble with most “issue” plays is the characters seem more like animated talking points, rather than complex, flesh-and-blood human beings. Fortunately, Bess Wohl�…

Roundabout Theatre Company celebrated opening night of the world-premiere of Liberation by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White. Check out photos from opening night here.

From Tony Award nominees Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) and Whitney White (Jaja's African Hair Braiding) comes Liberation, a provocative and revealing new work about what really goes on when women meet behind close…

Bess Wohl’s moving new play, about a group of women in 1970s Ohio, explores the power of sisterhood and the limits of motherhood.

by Tulis McCall There are any number of reasons why you should get yourself over to “Liberation” by Bess Wohl and directed by Whitney White at Roundabout Theatre Company.  First of all, they take away your…

Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . In the 1970s, it was extremely difficult for a woman in America to experience any sense of empowerment without first getting some sort of economic or societal permission. It …

Theatrely's Off Broadway reviews of The Antiquities at Playwrights Horizons and Liberation at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York City.

Bess Wohl takes a big-hearted approach to her subject matter, and to her characters, in this powerful and life-affirming drama

★★★★☆ Whitney White directs a sensational group of women in Bess Wohl’s time-traveling memory play The post Liberation: We’ve Come So Far…Or Have We? appeared first on New York Stage Review.

★★★★☆ Bess Wohl raises our consciousness with her engrossing play about the Liberation movement and the women who started it. The post Liberation: A Beautifully Evocative Look at The Cause, Circa 197…

The Drama League has announced the 2025 Special Recognition Honorees of the 91st Annual Drama League Awards. The honorees will be celebrated for their outstanding lifetime contributions to the theater industry …

E20: The Body Politic: History of Queer News in the Gay & Lesbian Liberation Era | Everyday Forum Podcast The Body Politic was Canada's primary queer periodical from 1971 to 1987. It amplified the lives of que…

1970, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a small group of women to talk. But talking quickly becomes a necessary and bracingly funny attempt to change their own lives and the world. Fifty years later, her daughter is shocked…

The company of the world-premiere of Liberation by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White and presented by Roundabout Theatre Companym met with the press ahead of performances. See photos here! 

Roundabout Theatre Company has its full cast for the off-Broadway world premiere of Liberation, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Whitney White. Performances begin January 31 ahead of a February 20 opening…

Roundabout Theatre Company has revealed the complete cast for the world-premiere of Liberation by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

Award-winning director and choreographer Camille A. Brown deepens her explorations of Black joy in the New York premiere of I AM. While Brown has often disrupted our understanding of the past, in this new work,…

Tony-nominated actor Gabby Beans discusses playing both Mercutio and Friar Lawrence in Broadway's groundbreaking Romeo & Juliet alongside Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler - exploring how this revolutionary producti…

From Harcourt's "foppishness" to Zaza's sequins, men's fashion throughout history has been a source of oppression and an avenue for liberation. Join La Cage aux Folles costume designer David Boechler and London…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/macbeth/ NEW PRODUCTION Power’s price, paid in blood. Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespear…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/macbeth/ NEW PRODUCTION Power’s price, paid in blood. Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespear…

Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: “A musical background to her unique vocal abilities and heightened social consciousness.” —Exclaim “Lush production and instrumentation accompany her angelic voice.�…

Premiering in 1979, this liberating production questioned gender and sexuality, with Antony Sher playing an upright father and a bearded five-year-old girl In 1979, I was at Dartington College of Arts in Devon.…

An appropriately multi-modal effort towards dialogue about Yanira Castro's Exorcism = Liberation, a massive public art project that began in July and continues until election day. 

Created in 1968 and making groundbreaking strides, the organisation is looking to further expand Home is where the heart is but it also brought hardships for the National Black Theatre (NBT). “We have always …

"Exorcism = Liberation is an act of intervention, a rehearsal for collective action during a critical American election. This is the launch of a new public art project during the 2024 Presidential election and …

The bright lights of Vegas couldn’t compete with the starpower of more than 200 of NYC’s most dazzling dancers as they erupted into electrifying modern-day burlesque production numbers at Broadway Bares: Hi…