The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on November 20 to confirm the eligibility status of nine Broadway productions for the 2025-2026 season. This was the first time this season that the committee met to…

Category determinations were made for a number of shows, including “Liberation,” “Mamma Mia!” and “Ragtime.”

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met to confirm the eligibility status of nine Broadway productions for the 2025-2026 season. This was the first time this season that the Tony Awards Administration Comm…

When asked about starring in Liberation on Broadway, a play about women and overseen by women, actor Betsy Aidem gasps: "The female energy is just delicious!" she exclaims. Liberation is about a group of femini…

Playwright Bess Wohl and director Whitney White lead a majority female cast on Broadway.

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/16/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

The play, which began performances on October 8, will now run through February 1, 2026.

Bess Wohl's feminist memory play Liberation announced an extension for an additional three weeks on Broadway. The comedy, which began performances on October 8 and opened on October 28, will now run through F…

The work centers on a group of women who gather to talk, during the second wave feminist movement of the 1970s, about changing their own lives and the world.

Liberation will extend its run on Broadway for an additional three weeks. The play, by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl and directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White, will now play through Sunday, February 1 at …

Watch a video of Betsy Aidem performing a powerful monologue in Liberation on Broadway. Liberation opened October 28, 2025 at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Aidem, a Tony Award nominee for Prayer for the French …

Watch a video of Betsy Aidem performing a powerful monologue in Liberation on Broadway. Aidem, a Tony Award nominee for Prayer for the French Republic, plays the role of Margie in Bess Wohl's play.

Watch a video of Betsy Aidem performing a powerful monologue in Liberation on Broadway. Liberation opened October 28, 2025 at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Aidem, a Tony Award nominee for Prayer for the French …

Kayla Davion and Kristolyn Lloyd star in the clip from Bess Wohl's latest.

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Kristolyn Lloyd, Adina Verson, Betsy Aidem and Audrey Corsa in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” at the James Earl Jones Theatre (Photo credit: Little …

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) At the beginning of Bess Wohi’s play Liberation, the character of Lizzie breaks the fourth wall to greet the expectant audience. She makes some qu…

Directed by Whitney White, Liberation is a 2.5-hour epic about women doing something radical: talking about their lives.

Producers, directors and writers of recent transfers “Oh Mary!,” “Stereophonic” and “Liberation” share the ins and outs of the process.

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/2/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

Liberation, the new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, and directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White, is now running on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre. The production comes to Broadway following…

Plus, Laurie Metcalf contends for her seventh Tony nomination for 'Little Bear Ridge Road'

Originally published on Vogue.comView this story online It took 15 years for Liberation to open on Broadway, but playwright Bess Wohl knows it’s finally the right time. Wohl had workshopped her play—an e…

A special Mother-Daughter Matinee will be held for Liberation, the new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, and directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White. The “Mother of All Matinees” performance on Sun…

The memory play is a genre that has grown a bit stale since Tennessee Williams shattered it with The Glass Menagerie’s Broadway premiere in 1944. But Tony-nominee Bess Wohl has breathed new, challenging and m…

With Election Day tomorrow, it was hard to avoid registering the politics in even the most entertaining theater I reviewed this past week.  The insistence on body autonomy was a theme in both Broadway plays t…

Ready to get liberated? Bess Wohl's acclaimed new play, Liberation, lands on Broadway this fall following a triumphant run off-Broadway. What's it all about...?

Following its award-winning world premiere earlier this year, Liberation, a new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, and directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White, will open on October 28, 2025 on Broadw…

Hear them roar! An extraordinary group of women (an some men too) celebrated opening night of Liberation on Broadway earlier this week. The new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, and directed by Tony Award …

As smartphone habits become harder to break, some live events are taking matters into their own hands — quite literally. Enter the Yondr pouch, a locking case that keeps your phone with you, but sealed shut, …

Liberation, now playing at the James Earl Jones Theatre, is sparking powerful reactions on Broadway. Playwright Bess Wohl says the story speaks to everyone, not just women: “Men and non-female identifying p…

It's been a busy week on (and off) Broadway! Fall has officially arrived and a new season is very much in swing. Catch up on all the latest from the week ending October 31, 2025 with videos from Liberation, Lit…

Happy Halloween, BroadwayWorld! It is October 31, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click …

Review by Ron Fassler . . . “This is a play about my mother. For my mother. Who recently . . . who’s not here anymore. And so, it’s about her, and her friends, her beautiful friends—and a thing—this i…

Liberation, Bess Wohl’s memory play exploring second-wave feminism and the complexities of social change across generations, opened on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre on October 28. Many of Broadway'…

Playwright Bess Wohl and the cast of LIBERATION talk about the feministic memory play on opening night.

The actor talks getting naked in the Broadway play, and feeling empowerment in her own body.

Bess Wohl’s 1970s-set dramedy comes plenty of hot-tempered clashes, solid jokes and, to ensure no one dozes off, an extended full-frontal nudity scene. 

Hear them roar! An extraordinary group of women (an some men too) celebrated opening night of Liberation on Broadway earlier this week. The new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, and directed by Tony Award n…

Learn all about the Broadway premiere of LIBERATION, written by Bess Wohl. Get tickets to LIBERATION: https://www.broadway.com/shows/liberation/

Bess Wohl's play about second-wave feminism remains as powerful and gratifying as it moves to Broadway. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Liberation at James Earl Jones Theatre appeared first on Exeun…

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is October 30, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click H…

Liberation celebrated its Broadway opening at the James Earl Jones Theatre on October 28 in style. In addition to starry red carpet photo ops, the cast and creatives posed for sleek portraits onstage—with the…

Feminism and fashion were on full display on opening night of Liberation at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Stars Betsy Aidem, Susannah Flood, Audrey Corsa, Kayla Davion, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Char…

Bess Wohl's play opened October 28 at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

Temperatures are dropping in New York City, but Broadway is heating up. Here’s what's in store on this week's episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal.  Ragtime and Beetlejuice celebrate their respec…

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The award-winning off-Broadway production makes its Broadway debut

‘Liberation’ Broadway reviews; Tilda Swinton, Gary Oldman, ‘John Proctor’ in Royal Court’s season; Klena and Rodriguez to lead ‘A Beautiful Mind’ developmental concert Since 2016, “Today on Broa…

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is October 29, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click H…

Liberation, the new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, and directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White, officially opened on October 28, 2025 at the James Earl Jones Theatre. BroadwayWorld was there to cele…

“You want a revolution, but you want it on your terms, and you don’t want to have to give anything up.” With that sharp line, Liberation, the riveting new play by Bess Wohl, pierces straight to the heart …

Bess Wohl's play opened October 28 at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

1970s, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a group of women to talk about changing their lives, and the world. What follows is a necessary, messy, and bitingly funny exploration of what it means to be free, and to be a woman.…

Since seeing it earlier this year, I’ve found myself mentally comparing everything else onstage to Liberation, and frankly, not many other shows compare. Liberation is a must see. The post The Time Is Right f…

Both times I’ve seen the play—Off Broadway this spring, now returning in a larger space on Broadway—I’ve felt unprepared for the emotional wallop it lands, the way that Wohl’s work becomes cosmically …

“Liberation” is a brilliant, well-acted, and sobering account of the women’s rights movement, complicity, and the lens through which we view our caretakers — namely, our mothers. The post An Impressive …

When Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” opened Off Broadway all the way back in February, it would have been ridiculous to grace it with best-of superlatives. Now that “Liberation” has opened on Broadway this T…

While Wohl’s script is packed to the brim with thoughtful moments of beauty, comedy, and heartbreak, Liberation wouldn’t be nearly as affecting and, sadly, relatable without its stellar cast…Their perform…

There is something different about Liberation’s Broadway production. Bess Wohl’s play still features the same tight ensemble as in its Off-Broadway premiere earlier this year, and it is still directed by th…

Liberation, which premiered off-Broadway earlier this year, is a welcome original play on Broadway that relies not on marquee Hollywood names for buzz but a slate of strong performances, which elevate a first a…

Bess Wohl’s play, about a consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio, transfers to Broadway where it remains powerfully moving — and funny.

See what the critics are saying about Liberation, the new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl. The play examines a meeting between a group of women at the height of the women's liberation movement of the 1970s…

Liberation is Broadway drama at its finest. 
Ensemble at its strongest! Get your ticket(s) to this astonishing, hilarious, compassionate, powerful, stupendously theatrical experience that will have you in ope…

★★★★★ Bess Wohl takes inspiration from her mother’s life for her clever, decade-jumping memory play The post Liberation: This Is How We Change the World appeared first on New York Stage Review.

★★★★☆ Bess Wohl's feminist-themed play cuts a fine figure in its move to Broadway The post Liberation: The Women Are Back and Better than Ever appeared first on New York Stage Review.

James Earl Jones Theatre Playwright Bess Wohl looks back on her mother’s activism in a moving and cleverly constructed look at how to balance the personal and the political Though not listed in the program, L…

It can be challenging to deliver something fresh and unique to the memory play genre. However, in writer Bess Wohl’s new Broadway show, “Liberation,” she manages to do just that. Directed by Whitney White…

The Broadway Theatre Review: Liberation on Broadway By Ross When I first experienced the glory of Bess Wohl’s extraordinary Liberation at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre earlier this year, I was completely …

In the last decade, Bess Wohl has emerged as one of the most talented and eclectic voices in American theater — whose work ranges from historical pieces (Camp Siegfried) to broad domestic comedy in the Neil S…

Liberation – 24 October 2025 Within itself, Liberation is a play that celebrates the excitement that comes from gathering together to change the world. In this moment, as our current world is backsliding and …

Playwright Bess Wohl wants us to know about the time before she was born when “women’s lib” was neither pejorative nor ironic. In “Liberation,” her warm, funny play opening tonight on Broadway about a…