Bess Wohl — Playwright (3)
Liberation [Performance] Douban
Liberation
genre: theater playwright: Bess Wohl
other title: 解放 theater: James Earl Jones Theatre director: Whitney White actor: Betsy Aidem / Audrey Corsa / Kayla Davion / Susannah Flood / Kristolyn Lloyd



1970s, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a group of women to talk about changing their lives, and the world. What follows is a necessary, messy, and bitingly funny exploration of what it means to be free, and to be a woman. In LIBERATION, Lizzie’s daughter steps into her mother’s memory—into the unfinished revolution she once helped ignite—and searches the past to find the answer for herself. “The best play I’ve seen this season.”—Sara Holdren, New York Magazine



Tony Award® nominees Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) and Whitney White (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding) present a refreshingly irreverent and intensely relevant powerhouse of a play about what we inherit, what we forget, and what we’re still fighting to understand.

Grand Horizons [Performance] Douban
Grand Horizons
genre: theater playwright: Bess Wohl
other title: 远大视野 troupe: 2nd Stage theater: The Helen Hayes Theatre director: Leigh Silverman actor: Jane Alexander / James Cromwell / Priscilla Lopez / Michael Urie / Ben McKenzie
Bill and Nancy have spent 50 full years as husband and wife. As portrayed by Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Jane Alexander (The Great White Hope, The Sisters Rosensweig) and Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner James Cromwell (Babe, “Succession”), they practically breathe in unison, and can anticipate each other’s every sigh, snore, and sneeze. But just as they settle comfortably into their new home in Grand Horizons, the unthinkable happens: Nancy suddenly wants out. As their two adult sons struggle to cope with the shocking news, they are forced to question everything they assumed about the people they thought they knew best. By turns funny, shocking, and painfully honest, Bess Wohl’s new play explores a family turned upside down and takes an intimate look at the wild, unpredictable, and enduring nature of love. Also joining the cast are Tony Award winner and Broadway legend Priscilla Lopez (A Chorus Line, In the Heights), Ben McKenzie (“Gotham”, “The O.C.”), Maulik Pancholy (“30 Rock,” “Weeds”), Tony Award nominee Ashley Park (Mean Girls), and Michael Urie (Torch Song, “Ugly Betty”).
Camp Siegfried [Performance] Douban
genre: theater playwright: Bess Wohl
director: Katy Rudd actor: Patsy Ferran / Luke Thallon



Inspired by the real Camp Siegfried, which operated on New York’s Long Island in the 1930s…

As the world unknowingly sits on the brink of the Second World War, boy meets girl at a summer camp exclusively for American youth of German descent.

Immersed in the seemingly idyllic world of summer pastimes, the two teenagers embark upon a first relationship, each searching for identity and acceptance. But soon, they become dangerously consumed by the camp’s real aim: the preaching of Nazi ideology that will ultimately threaten to destroy them, and set the worldwide stage for global atrocity, devastation and genocide.