Liberation on Broadway tickets
About Liberation
Liberation on Broadway is “the year’s best play!” raves The Wrap. Get Liberation tickets to see a time-hopping new play about sisterhood, family, and feminism across the ages from Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, directed by Tony nominee Whitney White.
Wohl has become a New York theatre darling thanks to her warm but piercing works that excavate the buried histories of their characters. Now, in Liberation, she plays with intergenerational relationships between women who meet in a community center in 1970, and, 50 years later, the founder's daughter, who asks: What actually happened when her mom met these women, and where did their activism go wrong along the way?
A funny and moving portrait of what women say in private, and the worlds they shape, Liberation is worth freeing up an evening to see. Hails Variety, “brilliant, daring, and with tons of humor, this sharp new play explores what it truly takes to be a revolutionary.”
The best-reviewed show of the season, Liberation plays through 2/1 only!
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★★ Time Out New York
★★★★★ Front Row Center
Audio Described / Captioned Performances
The theatre offers automated closed captioning and audio description via I-Caption or on your personal mobile device with the GalaPro App.
Know before you go
To protect the privacy of our performers, performances are phone-free. Upon arrival, all phones must be powered off and locked in Yondr pouches. Guests maintain possession of their phones and can unlock them at intermission as needed.
Run time
2hr 30min. Incl. 15min intermission.
Categories
Age
Ages 16+.
Start date
October 8th, 2025
End date
February 1st, 2026
“A powerful, timely tribute to women's liberation”
A Timely Memory Play About Sisterhood
Liberation takes audiences back to 1970s Ohio through a daughter's journey to understand her late mother's involvement in the women's liberation movement, and the result is a deeply emotional, often h...
What It Feels Like
- Deeply moving
- Thought-provoking
- Warmly funny
You’ll Love This If…
- You appreciate stories about mothers and daughters
- You enjoy thought-provoking theater that sparks conversation
- You want to reflect on how far women's rights have come and how far we still have to go
So relevant to what’s going on in the world right now. It gets you thinking about how we relate to each other, and it really makes you reflect.
Very original story with very well developed characters taking on a theme this I’d still sm issue today
It was an incredible story that made me feel many emotions
Stars on stage
Susannah Flood
Adina Verson
Audrey Corsa
Betsy Aidem
Irene Sofia Lucio
Kayla Davion
Kristolyn Lloyd
Charlie Thurston
Liberation cast and creative team
By: Bess Wohl
Director: Whitney White
Cast list: Betsy Aidem (as Margie), Audrey Corsa (as Dora), Kayla Davion (as Joanne), Susannah Flood (as Lizzie), Kristolyn Lloyd (as Celeste), Irene Sofia Lucio (as Isidora), Charlie Thurston (as Bill), Adina Verson (as Susan)
Sets: David Zinn
Costumes: Qween Jean
Lighting: Cha See
Sound: Palmer Hefferan
Other info: Hair and wig design by Nikiya Mathis, intimacy direction by Kelsey Rainwater, vocal and dialect coaching by Gigi Buffington
Venue
Accessibility
Wheelchair seating in Orchestra with step-free entrance; no elevators or escalators; assistive listening and audio description available.
More information about Liberation
Bess Wohl, a Tony Award nominee for her Broadway play Grand Horizons, is known for plays of varying styles that all offer more than meets the eye. Camp Siegfried is based on the real New York campground that was seemingly idyllic but was where American children of German descent were taught Nazi ideology. Small Mouth Sounds followed participants unraveling at a silent retreat, and her musical Pretty Filthy dove into the private and professional lives of adult film stars.
Often highly imaginative but based in detailed research, Wohl’s plays have enjoyed critical acclaim, extensions, and many recognitions. She’s been nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award and Drama Desk Award and won a Outer Critics Circle Award.
Now, her new play takes audiences to 1970, where six women, all strangers, gather at a community center’s basement gym to discuss their aspirations. Half a century later, one of their daughters tries to piece together her mom's mysterious life, hoping her onetime friends can shed light on what the hell actually happened all those years ago.
What to watch for
- Like Bess Wohl, director Whitney White is equally lauded: she directed the many New York and regional productions of What to Send Up When It Goes Down and is an Obie Award winner.
- This is not the first time Wohl has played with different time periods in a play; previously, in Make Believe, young actors and adult professionals played a trio of siblings across the decades.
- Even before its premiere, this play was generating buzz; Liberation is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.
Additional Information
- Children under 4 years old will not be admitted.
- No weapons permitted on the premises. No outside food or beverages, electric scooters, e-bikes, or battery-powered transportation devices, except when medically necessary.
- All items are subject to inspection. Anything brought into the theatre must fit on your lap or completely under your seat without blocking any aisles. Avoid bringing packages, luggage, and backpacks. Some items must be checked.
Tickets
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