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Bess Wohl‘s Liberation, nan Tony nominated play and 2026 Pulitzer Prize winner, will beryllium produced successful London adjacent year, producers announced today.
Producers Daryl Roth, Eva Price, and Rachel Sussman made nan announcement, and Liberation will beryllium presented by them successful relation pinch Olivier Award-winning producers Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Eilene Davidson Productions astatine a theatre to beryllium announced.
As previously announced, Liberation will besides beryllium produced passim nan United States successful 2026-27, including nan Geffen Playhouse successful Los Angeles, Berkeley Rep successful Berkeley, CA, and nan Studio Theatre successful Washington, DC, pinch different productions to beryllium announced soon.
The play, directed by Whitney White, was precocious nominated for 5 Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Performance by an Actress successful a Leading Role/Play (Susannah Flood), Best Performance by an Actress successful a Featured Role/Play (Betsy Aidem), Best Direction of a Play and Best Costume Design of a Play (Qween Jean).
Following its Off Broadway world premiere astatine Roundabout Theatre Company, Liberation opened connected Broadway connected October 28, 2025, astatine nan James Earl Jones Theatre wherever it played an extended tally done February 1, 2026.
The synopsis: “1970s, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a group of women to talk astir changing their lives, and nan world. What follows is simply a necessary, messy, and bitingly funny exploration of what it intends to beryllium free, and to beryllium a woman. In Liberation, Lizzie’s girl steps into her mother’s representation – into nan unfinished gyration she erstwhile helped ignite – and searches nan past to find nan reply for herself.”
Liberation was produced connected Broadway by Daryl Roth, Eva Price, and Rachel Sussman.
Read Deadline’s return connected Liberation here.
