On the final day of rehearsals for her play Liberation , the writer Bess Wohl was reminiscing about the days her mom would take her to work at Ms. magazine . “I remember sitting on the floor of her office and playing while I was listening to the keys of her typewriter,” she says. “Seeing her work environment, it was really formative for me.” Liberation is Wohl’s second play to make it to Broadway – her first, Grand Horizons , earned her a Tony nomination in 2020 – and it pays loving tribute to her mother’s era of bold feminism.

The ensemble piece follows the poignant, funny, and often jarring diversity of thought at a women’s consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio. Wohl interviewed her mom and several others involved in those profoundly radical circles to build the

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