With ‘Liberation,’ Bess Wohl & Whitney White Reach For A Word And Reclaim A World – Tony Watch Q&A

Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Play and, for Whitney White, Best Direction of a Play, Bess Wohl‘s Liberation was one of the most remarkable Broadway productions in recent years when it hit the James Earl Jones Theatre last fall, a blend of past and present, laughter and tears, memory and reality, seeking and probity, all layered with the bittersweet realization that sometimes, when reaching toward fulfillment, the reach is the reward.

Certainly Liberation most fully embodies its title in its reaches – the reach of one soul to another, the reach that contains righteous anger, the reach for fairness and equity and the reach, however futile, toward those we’ve loved and lost and want more than anything to revisit and understand.

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