‘Liberation’ on Broadway review: This play about the women’s movement is a must-see

NEW YORK — If you’ve watched with growing alarm as art that preserves thorny histories and agitates for social progress has come under attack, bookmark this page and go buy tickets for “Liberation.” The superb and galvanizing new play by Bess Wohl would undoubtedly earn the derisive label “woke” in the most technical sense: It’s about a consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio awakening women to everyday oppression.