The new play Liberation, by Bess Wohl, is receiving wildly positive reviews, having made a seemingly seamless transfer from off Broadway to Great White Way. The production follows a group of women in the early 70s, who meet weekly in a school gymnasium to discuss this new thing happening around them. That would be the feminist movement.

The cast has been together from the start, including the one who arguably steals the show: Betsy Aidem who, at 67, seems to go from one prestigious play to another. Just four years ago, she appeared in Prayer for the French Republic, earning a Tony nomination, and Tom Stoppard’s epic’ Leopoldstadt. Both also dealt with historical subjects: as in antisemitism during World War II.

Aidem met Bess Wohl in Williamstown several years ago.

“We had actually act

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