After an award-winning off-Broadway run , the new play Liberation , from Tony-nominated writer Bess Wohl, is transferring to Broadway this fall for a 14-week engagement at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

Directed by Tony nominee Whitney White, the play centers on a women’s liberation group started in the 1970s by six ladies in a small town in Ohio. More than 50 years later, one of the founders’ daughters attempts to piece together everything that happened in between, searching for an explanation for why her activist mother resorted to more traditional roles and paused her quest for justice.

Wohl, who wrote the Tony-nominated 2020 play Grand Horizons, says telling this story is a gift. “The real meaning of Women’s Liberation is, to me, about treating all people equally and recogni

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