What living composer is more versatile than Jeanine Tesori? Lyric Opera subscribers heard her beautiful score for the opera “Blue” this past autumn and now Porchlight Music Theatre is reviving “Fun ...

This review was contributed by former Seven Days associate editor Ruth Horowitz, who now lives in Providence, R.I. She and her husband, David Christensen, recently headed to Manhattan to see Fun Home ...

Sarasota Players has provided audiences with a thought-provoking musical with their recent production of "Fun Home," the Tony Award-winning musical that brings Alison Bechdel's poignant graphic memoir ...

Fun Home resonated with readers as a work of nuance, honesty and intelligence. Within just a few years, playwright Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori set about adapting it to the stage, which was ...

Directed by Sam Gold and based on Alison Bechdel’s award-winning autobiographical graphic novel, Tony Award-winning musical “Fun Home” made its Washington, D.C. premiere April 18 at the National ...

Written in 2006, “Fun Home” chronicles Alison Bechdel’s upbringing in rural Pennsylvania. “Fun Home” is told in a non-linear way: the same incidents are revisited as the reader gathers more ...

In “Spent,” the protagonist looks like Alison Bechdel and quacks (well, bleats) like Alison Bechdel but the subtitle “A Comic Novel” is a clue that she’s not Alison Bechdel. The writer/cartoonist has ...