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Saturday, February 22, 2025
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�…
Friday, February 21, 2025
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.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
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.
★★★★☆ 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…
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
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…
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
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…
Thursday, January 16, 2025
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!
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Monday, January 6, 2025
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.
Friday, December 27, 2024
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,…
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
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…
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
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…
Thursday, November 14, 2024
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…
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
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.�…
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
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.…
Monday, October 14, 2024
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.
Friday, September 27, 2024
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 …
Friday, September 13, 2024
"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 …
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
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…
Friday, June 14, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024
By Yura Sapi, Renee Harrison. In this episode, Renee Harrison, founder of Black Girls Do Theater, discusses evolving the theatre industry, envisioning a post-liberation future, and embracing radical trans…
Friday, May 24, 2024
Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright of “Angels in America” and Steven Spielberg’s go-to screenwriter over the last 20 years, is never short of opinions that are engaging, pr…
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Grace Jung’s educational and frequently breezy book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry Into Why We Love Korean Television is a great starting place if you don’t have any Korean cultural or historic c…
Friday, May 3, 2024
At Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip, our showgirls and showqueens drip and dazzle with effortless allure ✨ Enter our world of luxury and liberation on Sunday, June 23. Get tickets now at broadwaycares.org/bares…
Saturday, April 27, 2024
After seeing Mother Play, Paula Vogel’s semi-autobiographical three-hander which opened at the Hayes Theater on the very last day of the 2023-2024 theater season, my friends and I went next door to Sardi’s …
Sunday, April 21, 2024
It's more than just a viewing party; it's more than just cocktails; it's more than just performances; it's more than just electrifying drag shows and bright makeup! You might ask - what more is there? There's a…
Saturday, April 20, 2024
To the list of larger-than-life, survivalist women in musical theater, add Tamara de Lempicka — but with an asterisk. The name of the Polish-born portraitist who died in 1980 might not be familiar to many, bu…
Friday, April 19, 2024
Nottingham PlayhouseThree unsuspecting teenagers find themselves under close observation in this satirical swipe at the government’s Prevent strategy The three GCSE students in Sonali Bhattacharyya’s play …
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Roundabout Theatre Company has set opening dates for the shows in its 2024-25 theatrical season. Preview performance dates are yet to be announced. The Broadway premiere of Yellow Face, written by three-time…
Monday, March 4, 2024
By Rainier Pearl-Styles. Educator Rainier Pearl-Styles recounts their experience of devising a show in response to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, using tenets of Paolo Freire’s theory of liberatory education.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
This York Theatre Company production at the New World Stages, following a presentation at Goodspeed Musicals in 2016, shoehorns these songs into a book by Lindsey Hope Pearlman from a story created by Richard J…
Friday, March 1, 2024
Chicago Dramatists has been transformed into a realm where love clashes with tradition, liberation grapples with convention, and the echoes of ancient narratives resound in contemporary society. This theatrical…
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
"Ain't nothin' sentimental about a dead revolution." Wearing a too-short, too-tight dress, shiny thigh-high boots, and a long fuchsia wig, the twentysomething Nina (Moses Ingram) attempts to plunge these words …
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Chilina Kennedy has cultivated a kinship with the 1960s. It could be how the melodies, which she compares to “putting on a warm blanket,” suit her voice. Or, it could be the decade’s inherent cry for libe…
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
While “Pride” has come to stand for Gay Liberation in contemporary times, Beatrice has named her house after Jane Austen’s novel as it is made clear when she names her new guesthouse “Prejudice” at th…
Thursday, January 18, 2024
On violence, liberation, and the collective: a new biography of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz. The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, by Adam Shatz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 451 pages, …
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