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 exploration of the Second Wave feminist movement through one woman’s relationship with her late mother—for more than a decade, but she didn’t feel satisfied until she framed it around a series of consciousness-raising group meetings. After she began interviewing former activists who had attended those meetings, her first draft was completed within 10 days.

“Those women—I actually had a vision of them sitting in a room, waiting for me to start listening to them,” Wohl says during a break from rehearsals at the James Earl Jones Theatre. “I know it sounds kooky, but they were like, ‘Whenever you clear your schedule…’ Then I went to a writer’s re

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