Photos: Men of Broadway Celebrate LIBERATION at Cocktail Party

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 party, which was held at Dear Irving. Check out photos below!

Co-hosted by Elisbeth Challener, Lori Fineman, Melissa Haizlip and Sheri Henriksen of Finewomen Productions, the event celebrated Liberation, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and recently nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Play.

Liberation is written by two-time Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Bess Wohl, and is directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Whitney White. Wohl and White are the only female playwright and director who have been Tony-nominated in their respective categories this season. Liberation also received Tony nominations for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Susannah Flood), Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play (Betsy Aidem) and Best Costume Design of a Play (Qween Jean).

Liberation is also the winner of the Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, and Drama Desk and NY Drama Critic’s Circle Awards for Best Ensemble Performance.

Following its Off-Broadway 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.

1970s, 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’s daughter steps into her mother’s memory—into the unfinished revolution she once helped ignite—and searches the past to find the answer for herself.

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