'Liberation' Off Broadway Review: Bess Wohl's New Play Is as Good as New York Theater Gets

'Liberation' Off Broadway Review: Bess Wohl's New Play Is as Good as New York Theater Gets

Only a few weeks into the New Year, and 2025 has already delivered its first great new play. That sentence is written in the same blunt spirit of the sobering, funny, provocative and totally engaging play that is Bess Wohl’s “Liberation,” which had its world premiere Thursday at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre. As playwrights go, Wohl doesn’t mess around. At the top of the evening, she brings on stage a narrator who is even more direct and effic…

While Not Explicitly Autobiographical, ‘Liberation’ Finds Playwright Bess Wohl Making Use of a Childhood ‘Infused With Second-Wave Feminism’

‘Liberation’ focuses less on the enormous progress that has been made in terms of how women can live, work, and love — in our country, certainly, and in much of the world — than on past injustices and remaining challenges.

Inside Opening Night of Bess Wohl's LIBERATION

Roundabout Theatre Company celebrated opening night of the world-premiere of Liberation by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White. Check out photos from opening night here.

A Liberating “Liberation”  - Theater Pizzazz

Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . In the 1970s, it was extremely difficult for a woman in America to experience any sense of empowerment without first getting some sort of economic or societal permission. It was common then not to issue credit cards or bank accounts to women. They certainly couldn’t buy a […]