LIBERATION Wins 2026 Tony Award for Best Play

The acclaimed Broadway production of Bess Wohl's Liberation has won the 2026 Tony Award for Best Play.

Liberation was also awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was nominated for five 2026 Tony Awards. 

Liberation on Broadway starred the original Off-Broadway company, who were honored by both the Drama Desk and the NY Drama Critic’s Circle for Best Ensemble Performance. The Off-Broadway production also earned the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. 

The cast featured Tony Award nominee Betsy Aidem as Margie, Audrey Corsa as Dora, Kayla Davion as Joanne, Susannah Flood as Lizzie, Kristolyn Lloyd as Celeste, Irene Sofia Lucio as Isidora, Charlie Thurston as Bill, and Adina Verson as Susan. Understudies are Britt Faulkner, Leeanne Hutchison, Matt E. Russell, and Kedren Spencer.

Liberation will open on London's West End in 2027 and will be seen in Washington D.C. as part of Studio Theatre's 2026-27 season.

About LIBERATION

1970, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a small group of women to talk. But talking quickly becomes a necessary and bracingly funny attempt to change their own lives and the world. Fifty years later, her daughter is shocked to find herself asking the very same questions her mother did, and goes on a search through the past for answers. From Tony Award® nominees Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) and Whitney White (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding) comes a provocative, revealing, and irreverent jolt of a play about what really goes on when women meet behind closed doors.