This year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner, Liberation by acclaimed playwright Bess Wohl (Barcelona, Baby Ruby), is getting a London premiere production.

Wohl won the Pulitzer Prize earlier this month, with the Pulitzer board hailing the drama as a striking blend of comedy and sincerity.

The show will be produced in London by Olivier Award-winning producers Eleanor Lloyd – the producer of West End long-runner Witness for the Prosecution, and Eilene Davidson – a co-producer on current West End hit Romeo & Juliet starring Sadie Sink.

The news was announced by the show’s original Broadway producers, Daryl Roth, Eva Price and Rachel Sussman.

Liberation ran on Broadway in 2025 and early 2026 at the James Earl Jones Theatre directed by Whitney White, with strong praise from the critics, and a recent crop of five Tony Award nominations. Ahead of Broadway, Liberation played Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company.

There’s no current news about a London theatre or dates for the Liberation premiere.

We reported earlier this month that British producers had visited New York to see the Broadway run, assessing its viability for London.

The play is also getting a number of US productions in 2026 and 2027, including the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, Berkeley Rep in Berkeley, and the Studio Theatre in Washington DC.

Bess Wohl - in rehearsals for Barcelona in London. Photo by Marc Brenner
Bess Wohl – in rehearsals for Barcelona in London. Photo by Marc Brenner

Liberation explores the legacy of the consciousness-raising feminist groups of the 1970s, with Wohl using the story of her mother to demonstrate how the movement grew out of conversation.

Bess Wohl scored a commercial West End success in 2024/2025 with Barcelona, a two-handed thriller at the Duke of York’s Theatre starring Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte.

Her play Camp Siegfried had its world premiere at The Old Vic in London in 2021, directed by Katy Rudd, and starring Patsy Ferran and Luke Thallon.

Wohl was a finalist for the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for playwriting, for Liberation.

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