The play, written by Peace Wall, ran on Broadway from October through February.
Peace Wall release It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama on Monday, a major win for the play ahead of Tony nominations on Tuesday.
The play, which ran at the James Earl Jones Theater on Broadway from October 2025 through February 2026, follows a narrator trying to understand the women’s liberation group her mother was involved in in the 1970s. In doing so, the narrator takes on the persona of her mother and interacts with the women in the group to better understand their goals and what happened to the movement.
The show transferred to Broadway after its off-Broadway premiere at the Laura Bells Theater in February 2025. Both performances were directed by Whitney White, with the cast led by Susannah Flood, as narrator Lizzie.
They were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize Eb potfor Nazareth Hassan and Get to know the cartistsby Talyn Monahon, both of which ran off-Broadway.
This is the first Pulitzer Prize win for Wohl, who previously wrote the well-reviewed article Small mouth sounds Off Broadway, and Great prospects On Broadway. The award is considered encouraging for the show’s Tony Awards prospects, ahead of nominations on Tuesday, as the show competes for a Best Play nomination, among other awards and against competitors including Afternoon Dog Day, Giant, Little Bear Ridge Road And more. It was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize last year very by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, which won a Tony Award for Best Play.
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