When asked about starring in Liberation on Broadway, a play about women and overseen by women, actor Betsy Aidem gasps: "The female energy is just delicious!" she exclaims. Liberation is about a group of feminists in the 1970s who meet and try to figure out some way to make small changes in their own lives—everything from asking their husband to do the dishes, to asking for a raise at work. It is written by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White, and features a majority female cast.

Watch the video below to hear the cast of Liberation discuss why they love the play so much, enought that they've stuck with it from its world premiere Off-Broadway earlier this year to a now-Broadway run at the James Earl Jones Theatre. For these actors, it's the diversity of perspectives in the play—there's single women, wives, mothers, Black women, lesbians, immigrants represented in the storytelling. Says actor Irene Sofia Lucio of why she loves the play: "It wasn't any of the celebrities being featured. It was average, everyday women that were trying to carve their way and [find] a little liberation in their every day lives." 

Actor Adina Verson agrees, saying it's been inspiring to work on the play and to take its lessons in her own life: "It's so important to honor the people who we never know ... There are countless people who will we never know the names of, who we will never know the actions of, who have shaped the world we live in. And we can also do the same."

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Liberation is playing now and its limited run was just extended by three weeks to February 1, 2026. That's the great thing, says the "one lone man" in the cast, Charlie Thurston, "This play, I think, is going to get done all over the country ... It's one of those tentpole cultural plays."