US EditionReview: ‘Liberation’ on Broadway Is Brave Enough to Ask, What Does Feminism Mean?
Liberation draws from 1970s feminist activism to highlight ongoing equality struggles and supports feminist causes like Ms. magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation.
- On Oct. 28, 2025, Liberation opened on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre, following a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run earlier this year and playing through early 2026.
- Inspired by Ms.'s founding generation, the play toggles between a 1970s consciousness-raising group and one member's daughter in 2025, with Bess Wohl drawing on her mother Lisa Cronin Wohl's work at Ms.
- The New York Times, Variety and The Washington Post praised the production, with The New York Times naming it a Critics Pick for a `Tony-worthy ensemble plotting revolution`, and the opening night curtain call cast, including White and Wohl, took part on Oct. 28, 2025.
- Proceeds from ticket sales support Ms. magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation, and Wohl, Lisa Cronin Wohl, and others will be honored at the Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. Gala on Nov. 18, 2025 at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
- The Guardian's review described Liberation as `a vivid, time-hopping portrait of feminist hope and inheritance`, and its themes mirror Ms. magazine's 50+ years of championed community, courage, resistance, currently running through early 2026.
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Review: ‘Liberation’ on Broadway is brave enough to ask, what does feminism mean?
NEW YORK — The great playwright August Wilson used to say he’d just let his characters talk and then try and get out of their way. Bess Wohl’s fascinating and superbly acted Broadway play “Liberation,” by contrast, is entirely frank…
'Liberation' Opens on Broadway—And Ms. Magazine Is at Its Heart
The feminist revolution has taken center stage. Liberation, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Whitney White, officially opened on Broadway on Oct. 28, 2025, at the James Earl Jones Theatre, following a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run earlier this year. In an interview with Vogue, Wohl said she was inspired by her mother’s work as an editor at Ms.: “The arc of history is so much longer than we realize. Already in 1970 women were feeling …
It was in the early 1970s that everything changed. The fights were led, the laws were passed, the pill began to be available almost everywhere and, soon, abortion will be legal: it is time for women to freely dispose of el... View the rest of the slideshow on Elle.fr
BESS WOHL’S “LIBERATION”: ON BROADWAY WHERE IT BELONGS
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 is important—a thing they tried very hard to do.” “No, a thing that they did, that […] The post BESS WOHL’S “LIBERATION”: ON BROADWAY WHERE IT BELONGS appeared first on Theater Pizzazz.
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