Liberation at CoHo Theatre

“Fiery, funny and provocative.”
— The Guardian

Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play!

In 1970s Ohio, a young journalist named Lizzie brings together a diverse group of women to meet at their local rec center. Once a week, they gather in the overused basketball court to discuss and debate the unique issues they face as individuals and the fight for women’s liberation they face as a collective—as well as the complex, sometimes conflicting ways the two intersect.

Fifty years later, Lizzie’s daughter delves into this chapter of her mother’s past, seeking to understand why the gains the movement made feel like they are slipping—and why her mother chose to leave it all behind.

At once incisive character study and clear-eyed examination of a movement, Bess Wohl’s highly acclaimed Liberation is a funny, nuanced, and unsentimental reckoning with the past and the present, the personal and the political. What have we inherited from those who came before, and where do we go from here?