The Broadway production of Liberation, the acclaimed memory play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, is offering a family-friendly twist on one of its upcoming performances: a special Broadway Babysitter matinee on Sunday, January 25, that includes free in-home childcare for select families.
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In partnership with the Parent Artist Advocacy League for the Performing Arts and Media and Broadway Babysitters, attending families can apply for up to five hours of complimentary childcare for up to three children, a rare incentive for Broadway audiences that aims to make seeing theater more accessible to parents. Requests must be submitted in advance via a dedicated form, with successful applicants alerted by confirmation email and given next steps for arranging care. Availability is extremely limited and interested theatergoers are encouraged to apply quickly for a shot at the spots.
Broadway Babysitters is an arts-focused childcare company led by a team of expert caregivers that fosters creative play, offers behind-the-scenes support and partners with caregiver-focused nonprofits to connect families to the arts while empowering artists to build families of their own.
The matinee comes shortly after the play extended its Broadway run through February 1 at the James Earl Jones Theatre, following an Off-Broadway premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company in 2025. That production earned the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, prompting its transfer to Broadway with much of its original cast intact. In his five-star review, Time Out New York‘s Adam Feldman wrote, “Liberation wants to get you talking, and it gives you plenty to talk about. Whitney White’s direction elicits a triumph of ensemble acting whose equipoise is a perfect realization of the play’s own themes.”
The play unfolds in Ohio in the 1970s, where six women meet weekly in a basement gymnasium to support one another and challenge societal expectations, confronting the messy realities of freedom, friendship and female agency. Decades later, one of their daughters revisits this past revolutionary moment to understand her own life. The cast features Tony nominee Betsy Aidem, Audrey Corsa, Kayla Davion, Susannah Flood, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Charlie Thurston and Adina Verson.
To apply for a Broadway Babysitter, click here.
