With a slightly thinned-out roster and a deep-freeze blast of NYC winter weather, Broadway did a decent job of holding its own last week, the 29 productions (down from 31 the previous week) pulling in a total g…

Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl’s play finished its run on Broadway on Feb. 1.

The play finished up a Broadway run February 1.

Concord Theatricals has secured exclusive worldwide English language stage licensing rights to Tony nominee Bess Wohl’s Liberation for its Dramatists Play Service imprint. The title is now available for profe…

For the week ending Feb. 1, the 31 running productions grossed $31,766,855.

The Bess Wohl play finished up its limited run at the James Earl Jones Theatre February 1.

'Liberation' also played its final performance with a new high of $734,237.

Broadway said its goodbyes to Mamma Mia! and Liberation Sunday, with both productions getting a boost at the box office last week from last chancers scooping up tickets before the February 1 closings. The reviv…

Playhouse, SheffieldTwo siblings growing up in a high-rise search for escape and liberation in this idiosyncratic and infectious drama with a beautiful script by Debris Stevenson Debris Stevenson is not only a …

White has been on an unstoppable journey directing new American plays that have both challenged and expanded the theatrical landscape. From her early production, OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD, through her transformat…

The 2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards, celebrating the 2025-26 Broadway and off-Broadway season of theater, will be held on May 21. Nominations will be announced during the afternoon of April 21. Winners will be…

Broadway's Kayla Davion from Liberation chats with Theatrely's Joey Sims about the show, the role of Joanne, and what is next!

The acclaimed Bess Wohl play continues at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

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A special Broadway Babysitter Matinee will take place at Liberation on Broadway on Sunday, January 25, 2026. A limited number of families will receive free in-home childcare from a Broadway Babysitter in partne…

There are seven new participants in the twice-yearly discount program: All Out:, Chess, Liberation, Marjorie Prime, Oedipus,Ragtime, Two Strangers (the links are to my reviews.) Click on the Broadway Week lin…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/11/2026 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

“Liberation,” “Redwood,” “Purpose” and others were lauded by GLAAD.

GLAAD, the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, has revealed the nominees of the 37th GLAAD Media Awards. The 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards will t…

GLAAD, the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, announced the nominees for the 37th annual GLAAD Media Awards. The ceremony will be held in Los Ang…

Since 1990, the honors have grown to be the most visible annual LGBTQIA+ awards show in the world.

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‘Liberation’ is prompting spontaneous applause, raw emotion and an unusual social rule that forces audiences to fully surrender to the moment

By JOCELYN NOVECK NEW YORK (AP) — On any given evening as the lights come up on Act 2 of “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s intergenerational Broadway play about a women’s consciousness-raising group, you can …

Playwright Bess Wohl, along with actor Kristolyn Lloyd, recently joined CNN's Amanpour to discuss the hit play Liberation, which is currently playing on Broadway. During the interview, the duo shed light on the…

It was a remarkable year for theater in New York, even if some of my favorites didn’t linger for very long. In whittling down my list, I decided to exclude some shows that transferred to Broadway this year bu…

Theater on-and off-Broadway, started out quite strong in 2025, but the promise of an exciting fall never really materialized, with a few key exceptions, and instead the biggest box office hit of the Broadway se…

One of the play’s four lead producers, Roth shares her thoughts on viability, marketing strategy and intergenerational producing.

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/14/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

Soho theatre, LondonThe comedian’s compelling show explores gender politics in modern India, singledom and self-improvement Modesty: “I don’t speak for all women …” Swagger: “… but I do speak for …

In researching her new Broadway play, Bess Wohl interviewed my mother. After a performance, we all discussed the play and its themes.

Liberation” is by far the most critically acclaimed theater of 2025, featured in nine of the ten Top 10 lists below. Bess Wohl’s play about a woman’s liberation group in the 1970s is followed by “John P…

An opinion piece by Editor-in-Chief Kobi Kassal on Liberation on Broadway.

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EXTENDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND! Celebrating rock ’n’ roll to the rhythm of 25 Queen songs, including the classic “Somebody to Love, ” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “We Are the Champions,” “Un…

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For women, Liberation is a mirror that celebrates and reaffirms their complex challenges and triumphs. For many men, it's a profoundly deep eye-widening, educational revelation -- even if, especially if you thi…

Bess Wohl’s play becomes the first Broadway show to collaborate with the fashion designer in over seven years.

The Purposeful Voices campaign will benefit The Mental Health Coalition.

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/23/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

This year’s finalists and their respective plays include Barbara Bergin for Dublin Gothic, Hannah Doran for Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights, Amy Jephta for A Good House, Frances Poet for Small Acts of …

Labelle, a new rock opera inspired by the trio of the same name, is currently in development. Written by Labelle’s own Nona Hendryx, in collaboration with two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and Tony…

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.

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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 …