‘Liberation’ Wins Best Play, Marking First Win by American Woman in Close to 40 Years
Bess Wohl's play about a feminist group in the 1970s takes home the award after winning the Pulitzer Prize.
Bess Wohl's play about a feminist group in the 1970s takes home the award after winning the Pulitzer Prize.
The playwright Bess Wohl is the first American woman to win this award since Wendy Wasserstein won for “The Heidi Chronicles” in 1989.
'Liberation,' Bess Wohl's playful imagining of her mother's feminist consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio, deservedly wins the Tony for best play
This marked Wohl's second Tony nomination and first win.
“Liberation” won won best play at the 79th annual Tony Award, “Ragtime” best revival of a musical and “Death of A Salesman” best revival of a play. Below the list of winners. (He…
The accomplished theater actress pays tribute to her father, veteran acting teacher Peter Gosnell Flood.
Her double Tony Award nomination is the cherry on top.
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The producer is nominated for Best Play and Best Musical.
Bess Wohl’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberation is up for five 2026 Tony Awards, including Best Play. The ‘70s memory play, which ended its limited Broadway run in February, starred Susa…
Bess Wohl has a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony nomination, and a Broadway play asking the question she spent her whole life afraid to answer.
Betsy Aidem chats about her 2026 Tony nomination for her performance in LIBERATION.
LIBERATION star Susannah Flood discusses her 2026 Tony Award nomination.
On Wednesday, May 27, Ryan J. Haddad, Zhailon Levingston, Michael Mayer, Sam Pinkleton, Stark Sands, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson hosted the “Men of Broadway Celebrate Liberation” cocktail p…
LIBERATION playwright Bess Wohl, director Whitney White, stars Susannah Flood & Betsy Aidem and costume designer Qween Jean discuss their 2026 Tony nominations.
We’re highlighting the 2026 play Tony nominees this week on The Broadway Show! Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek and Managing Editor Beth Stevens met with the consciousness-raisin…
It's 1970: somewhere in Ohio, six women meet on a basement basketball court, determined to shake up their lives and change the world. Fifty years later, one of their daughters tries to under…
Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Play and, for Whitney White, Best Direction of a Play, Bess Wohl’s Liberation was one of the …
The two represent a multi-generational team of women who lead-produced the play.
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White is nominated for her second Tony Award.
BroadwayWorld has just learned that Liberation, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and recently nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Play, will be produced in London in 202…
Bess Wohl’s play recently won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and is nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Play.