Original Off-Broadway Company of Liberation to Return for Broadway Run

The award-winning off-Broadway cast of Liberation will reprise their performances when the production opens on Broadway this fall at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

The play, written by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) and directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding), will run for 14 weeks starting on October 8, with an official opening on October 28.

Liberation had its world premiere earlier this year at Roundabout Theatre Company. For that production, the company was honored by both the Drama Desk and the NY Drama Critic’s Circle for Best Ensemble Performance.

Reprising their roles are Tony Award nominee Betsy Aidem (Prayer for the French Republic) as Margie, Audrey Corsa (All Rise) as Dora, Kayla Davion (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) as Joanne, Susannah Flood (Birthday Candles) as Lizzie, Kristolyn Lloyd (Dear Evan Hansen) as Celeste, Irene Sofia Lucio (Slave Play) as Isidora, Charlie Thurston (Here There Are Blueberries) as Bill, and Adina Verson (Only Murders in the Building) as Susan. Understudies are LeeAnne Hutchison, Matthew Russell, and Kedren Spencer.

Liberation is about a group of women in 1970s Ohio who gather in the basement of the local Y for a weekly consciousness-raising group, interwoven with a present-day narrator discovering her mother’s radical past before marriage and motherhood.

The production includes set design by three-time Tony Award winner David Zinn, costume design by Qween Jean, lighting design by Cha See, sound design by two-time Tony Award nominee Palmer Hefferan, hair and wig design by Special Tony Award winner Nikiya Mathis, intimacy direction by Kelsey Rainwater, and vocal and dialect coaching by Gigi Buffington.