{"id":102952,"date":"2026-01-17T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102952\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:50:00","slug":"liberation-to-hold-special-broadway-babysitter-matinee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102952\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberation to Hold Special ‘Broadway Babysitter’ Matinee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLiberation to Hold Special ‘Broadway Babysitter’ Matinee<\/p>\n

The acclaimed Bess Wohl play continues at the James Earl Jones Theatre.<\/p>\n

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Betsy Aidem, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Adina Verson, Audrey Corsa, and Susannah Flood in Liberation
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The Broadway production of Bess Wohl’s Liberation<\/a>, currently at the James Earl Jones, will hold a\u00a0special Broadway Babysitter Matinee January 25.<\/p>\n

A limited number of attending families will receive free in-home childcare from a Broadway Babysitter in partnership with the Parent Artist Advocacy League for the Performing Arts and Media.\u00a0Families can request up to five hours of free childcare for up to three children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Availability is extremely limited, and a request form must be filled out in advance<\/a>.\u00a0Selected families will receive a confirmation email from Broadway Babysitters with additional steps.<\/p>\n

Originally scheduled to run through January 11, 2026, Liberation has been extended\u00a0through February 1.<\/p>\n

The work centers on a group of women who gather to talk, during the second wave feminist movement of the 1970s, about changing their own lives and the world. Fifty years later, one of their daughters looks to the past for answers when she finds history repeating itself. <\/p>\n

The play, which made its world premiere Off-Broadway via Roundabout Theatre Company earlier this year, has brought its full original company to Broadway. Whitney White (The Last Five Years) again directs, after staging the Off-Broadway run. Opening night was October 28, 2025. See what critics had to say here<\/a>. The Off-Broadway premiere production won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway play. The original Off-Broadway company was honored by both the Drama Desk and the NY Drama Critic\u2019s Circle for Best Ensemble Performance.<\/p>\n

READ: Bess Wohl Was Once Told Liberation Was Unproduceable. Now It’s on Broadway<\/a><\/p>\n

The production features Tony nominee Betsy Aidem (Prayer for the French Republic, Leopoldstadt) as Margie, Audrey Corsa (Poker Face, It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) as Dora, Kayla Davion (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Waitress) as Joanne, Susannah Flood (Birthday Candles, The Cherry Orchard) as Lizzie, Kristolyn Lloyd (1776, Dear Evan Hansen) as Celeste, Irene Sofia Lucio (Slave Play, Wit) as Isidora, Charlie Thurston (Here There Are Blueberries, Wedge Horse) as Bill, and Adina Verson (Indecent, Only Murders in the Building) as Susan. The production understudies are LeeAnne Hutchison, Matthew Russell, and Kedren Spencer.<\/p>\n

The production also features set design by three-time Tony winner David Zinn (Stereophonic, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Humans) with costume design by Drama Desk nominee Qween Jean (Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”), lighting design by Drama Desk nominee Cha See (Oh, Mary!, That Day in Amsterdam), sound design by two-time Tony nominee Palmer Hefferan (John Proctor is the Villain, The Skin of Our Teeth), and hair and wig design by Special Tony winner Nikiya Mathis (Jaja\u2019s African Hair Braiding, Purpose). The intimacy director is Kelsey Rainwater, the vocal and dialect coach is Gigi Buffington, and the production stage manager is Erin Gioia Albrecht.<\/p>\n

Though it is the Roundabout production that transferred to Broadway, the non-profit is not on the producing team, which includes Daryl Roth, Eva Price, Rachel Sussman, and Jenny Gersten.<\/p>\n

Click here for tickets.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Adina Verson, Susannah Flood, Kristolyn Lloyd in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Betsy Aidem, and Audrey Corsa in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Adina Verson, Susannah Flood, Betsy Aidem, Audrey Corsa, Kristolyn Lloyd, and Irene Sofia Lucio in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Irene Sofia Lucio and Kristolyn Lloyd in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Kayla Davion and Charlie Thurston in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Kayla Davion and Kristolyn Lloyd in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Adina Verson and Kristolyn Lloyd in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Kristolyn Lloyd in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Susannah Flood and Betsy Aidem in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Susannah Flood and Irene Sofia Lucio in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Susannah Flood and Charlie Thurston in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Betsy Aidem, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Adina Verson, Audrey Corsa, and Susannah Flood in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Irene Sofia Lucio in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Irene Sofia Lucio, Kristolyn Lloyd, Adina Verson, and Betsy Aidem in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Susannah Flood in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Irene Sofia Lucio and Kristolyn Lloyd in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Betsy Aidem and Adina Verson in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Audrey Corsa, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, and Adina Verson in Liberation<\/p>\n

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Audrey Corsa in Liberation<\/p>\n

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