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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Liberation **** The Antiquities ****

by Barry Gordin

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

Photos: Inside Opening Night of Bess Wohl's LIBERATION

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

Review Roundup: LIBERATION Opens at Laura Pels Theatre

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…

Review: In ‘Liberation,’ the Feminist Revolution Will Be Dramatized

by Jesse Green

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

Liberation

by Tulis McCall

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…

A Liberating “Liberation” 

by Ron Fassler

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 …

History on Display in THE ANTIQUITIES & LIBERATION — Review

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

Liberation: We’ve Come So Far…Or Have We?

by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ 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.

Liberation: A Beautifully Evocative Look at The Cause, Circa 1970

by Roma Torre

★★★★☆ 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

Drama League to Honor Lea Salonga, Whitney White, Neil Meron and More with Special Recognition Awards

by Darryn King

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 …

The Body Politic: History of Queer News in the Gay & Lesbian Liberation Era | Everyday Forum Podcast

by Stratford Festival

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

LIBERATION Theatre Talk

by Roundabout Theatre Company

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

Photos: The Cast of LIBERATION Off-Broadway Meets the Press

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

Interview: Camille A. Brown and the Liberation of Gypsy

Monday, January 6, 2025

Betsy Aidem, Kristolyn Lloyd, Susannah Flood and More Join World Premiere of Bess Wohl's Liberation

by Hayley Levitt

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…

Bess Wohl’s Liberation to Star Susannah Flood, Kristolyn Lloyd, Betsy Aidem, and More

Betsy Aidem, Kristolyn Lloyd & More to Star in LIBERATION World Premiere at Roundabout

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

Camille A. Brown & Dancers | at The Joyce February 5-9

by Joycetheater

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

Gabby Beans: Liberation, Optimism, and Romeo and Juliet | The Come Up

by Matt Rodin

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

Fops and Dandies: A Social History of Men's Fashion

by Stratford Festival

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

Washington National Opera's Macbeth | Nov. 13 - 23, 2024

by The Kennedy Center

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…

Étienne Dupuis as Macbeth in WNO's Macbeth | Nov. 13 - 23, 2024

by The Kennedy Center

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

Madison McFerrin - Millennium Stage (November 16, 2024)

by The Kennedy Center

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

Love and Liberation

Monday, November 4, 2024

The play that changed my life: ‘Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9 had us dancing in the aisles’

by Susan Croft

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

What is a liberated body? “Talking” Exorcism = Liberation with Yanira Castro

by Maura Nguyễn Donohue (she/they)

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

‘A temple of liberation’: behind the unwavering rise of the National Black Theatre

by David Smith In Washington

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

Yanira Castro/a canary torsi and her latest public art event, "Exorcism = Liberation"

by The Dance Enthusiast

"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

Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip Highlights

by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

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

Liberation

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Quantum Leap with Renee Harrison

by Yura Sapi, Renee Harrison

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

Catching Up With Tony Kushner

by Frank Rizzo

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

The Anti “Yogi” Liberation Not Lululemon

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Book Review: K-Drama School

by Nicole Serratore

  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

Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip - Amber Ardolino and John Juan Mercado

by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

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

"Mother Play" is a Work of True Compassion

by Jan Simpson

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

RuPaul’s Drag Race Finale Viewing Party and HOUSEOFLOVE

by Barbare Sturua

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

My Variety Review: New Broadway Musical "Lempicka"

by Frank Rizzo

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

Liberation Squares review – polemic comedy about state surveillance

by Mark Fisher

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 Sets Opening Dates for 2024-25 Broadway and Off-Broadway Season

by Darryn King

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

Recasting, Restorying, and Restructuring Shakespeare for Liberation

by Rainier Pearl-Styles

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

A Sign of the Times

by Joel Benjamin

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

Big Love is a great kick-off for [producing body]

by Kayla Pulley

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

Sunset Baby

by Joseph Pisano

"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 Makes Joy the Medium and the Message in A Sign of the Times

by Hayley Levitt

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

Pride House

by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

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

The Rebel’s Clinic

by Sasha Frere-Jones

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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