From the Tony Award-winning playwright of Appropriate and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad comes Purpose.

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Purpose

The Hayes Theater

**Event Description: "Liberation" at Roundabout Theatre Company**

**Event Title:** Liberation

**Dates:** January 31 - March 30, 2025

**Venue:** Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, Laura Pels Theatre, 111 West 46th Street, New York, NY (between 6th and 7th Avenues)

**Event Overview:**
Roundabout Theatre Company proudly presents "Liberation," a provocative and revealing new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, directed by Roundabout’s inaugural Directing Fellow and Associate Artist Whitney White. This compelling production delves into the lives of six women who, in 1970, gather in a basement gymnasium at their local community center with the determination to shake up their lives and the world around them. Fifty years later, one of their daughters attempts to piece together the events that transpired. "Liberation" offers an irreverent jolt of insight into what really happens when women meet behind closed doors.

**Creative Team:**
- **Playwright:** Bess Wohl
- **Director:** Whitney White

**Additional Information:**
- The cast and additional creative team members will be announced at a later date.
- "Liberation" is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.

**Special Notes:**
- Tickets will go on sale to the general public at a later date. Subscribers and donors get first access to tickets and other special benefits.
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**Acknowledgements:**
Roundabout Theatre Company gratefully acknowledges the support of the Roundabout Leaders for New Works, including Alec Baldwin, James Costa and John Archibald, Linda L. D’Onofrio, Peggy and Mark Ellis, Carson Gleberman, Sylvia Golden, Jeanne Hagerty, Angelina Lippert, Iva Mills, K. Myers, Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, Mary Solomon, and The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.

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Liberation

Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

A week before the High Holidays, three rabbis find themselves in a room fighting to save a family by building a bridge between orthodoxy and modernity. One of these rabbis is Chava, the child of a dynastic Hasidic rabbinical family and destined to become a leader of the next generation before the revelation of her trans identity clashed explosively with the strictly gendered world in which she was raised. As we jump through memory—and wrestle with theology—truths and secrets emerge that ensure no one will read the old stories the same way again.

Becoming Eve

Abrons Arts Center

Grangeville

The Pershing Square Signature Center

Written four centuries ago, Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta is a play for our time, a world of Machiavellian politics, corruption, tribalism, and casual violence, in which tensions between Jews, Muslims, and Christians reach the boiling point.

The Jew of Malta

Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space

In Spring 2025, Rattlestick will team up with New Georges to present Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods, a fun, titillating, and surreal theatrical experience by the playwrights and performers Emma Horwitz and Bailey Williams and directed by Tara Elliott. In every woods, there is a box. The box is full of lesbian erotica. Emma and Bailey are going to read some for you. Set inside an intimate archive of towering bankers boxes, Two Sisters… teases a literary reading, a dialogue, an interview, a magazine. A researcher collides with a librarian, paranormal investigators are abducted by aliens, and a pet shop owner receives a late night visitor. As these narratives weave and connect, the private becomes public. Two Sisters… asks how we become visible to ourselves.

Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods

HERE Arts Center

### Event Description: THE ANTIQUITIES

**Event Title:** THE ANTIQUITIES

**Playwright:** Jordan Harrison

**Co-Production:** Playwrights Horizons and Goodman Theatre

**Venue:** Playwrights Horizons

**Dates:** January 20 - March 2 (Dates subject to change)

**Synopsis:**
Step into the future with "THE ANTIQUITIES," a compelling new play by Jordan Harrison. Set in the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are on a mission to resurrect a lost civilization. They delve into the intricacies of human life, exploring what people wore, what they ate, and how they eventually vanished. This thought-provoking narrative casts a futuristic lens on our present, juxtaposing the analog past with a post-human future.

**About the Playwright:**
Jordan Harrison is a celebrated playwright, known for his Pulitzer Prize finalist work "Marjorie Prime," which premiered at Playwrights Horizons. His other notable plays include "The Amateurs," "Maple and Vine," "Log Cabin," and "Doris to Darlene." Harrison has received numerous accolades, including the Horton Foote Prize for Best New American Play, the Kesselring Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has also contributed as a writer-producer for popular TV series such as Netflix’s "Orange is the New Black," "GLOW," and AMC’s "Dispatches from Elsewhere." A collection of his works, "Maple and Vine & Other Plays," is set to be published later this year by TCG.

**Additional Information:**
- **Presented at:** Playwrights Horizons
- **Co-Production with:** Playwrights Horizons and Goodman Theatre

Join us for an unforgettable theatrical experience that bridges the past and the future, offering a unique perspective on the human condition.

The Antiquities

Vineyard Theatre

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