{"id":971870,"date":"2026-05-19T21:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/971870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:34:16","slug":"tony-nominated-pulitzer-winner-liberation-sets-london-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/971870\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony-Nominated Pulitzer Winner &#8216;Liberation&#8217; Sets London Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bess-wohl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bess-wohl\" data-tag=\"bess-wohl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bess Wohl<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/liberation\/\" id=\"auto-tag_liberation\" data-tag=\"liberation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liberation<\/a>, the Tony nominated play and 2026 Pulitzer Prize winner, will be produced in London next year, producers announced today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProducers Daryl Roth, Eva Price, and Rachel Sussman made the announcement, and Liberation will be presented by them in association with Olivier Award-winning producers Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Eilene Davidson Productions at a theater to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs <a data-id=\"1236756774\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/liberation-bess-wohl-los-angeles-geffen-broadway-1236756774\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously announced<\/a>, Liberation will also be produced throughout the United States in 2026-27, including the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, Berkeley Rep in Berkeley, CA, and the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, with other productions to be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe play, directed by Whitney White, was recently nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role\/Play (Susannah Flood), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role\/Play (Betsy Aidem), Best Direction of a Play and Best Costume Design of a Play (Qween Jean).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing its Off <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a> world premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company, Liberation opened on Broadway on October 28, 2025, at the James Earl Jones Theatre where it played an extended run through February 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe synopsis: \u201c1970s, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a group of women to talk about changing their lives, and the world. What follows is a necessary, messy, and bitingly funny exploration of what it means to be free, and to be a woman. In Liberation, Lizzie\u2019s daughter steps into her mother\u2019s memory \u2013 into the unfinished revolution she once helped ignite \u2013 and searches the past to find the answer for herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLiberation was produced on Broadway by Daryl Roth, Eva Price, and Rachel Sussman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRead Deadline\u2019s take on Liberation <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/top-10-broadway-shows-2025-1236658702\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236658702\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bess Wohl\u2018s Liberation, the Tony nominated play and 2026 Pulitzer Prize winner, will be produced in London next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":971871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[271021,748,40346,393,4884,271022,257,16,15,27923],"class_list":["post-971870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-bess-wohl","tag-britain","tag-broadway","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-liberation","tag-london","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-west-end"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116603392347721579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}