KIMBERLY AKIMBO is playing the Curran Theatre in San Francisco from November 5–December 1, 2024. A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 To…

Last year, the Metropolitan Opera hosted a concert celebration of the music of composer Stephen Schwartz. Jeanine Tesori, composer of Broadway musicals including Fun Home and Kimberly Akimbo, was the pianist fo…

Initial casting is set for Second Stage Theater's Broadway production of Cult of Love, a dysfunctional family play by Emmy nominee Leslye Headland (Russian Doll). Trip Cullman directs the New York premiere, b…

A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. It features Tony Award-winning book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Ab…

If you’re a musical theater composer, Broadway might get you a Tony Award — but it won’t get you 50 voices singing onstage. For that kind of scale, Jeanine Tesori, the Tony-winning composer of “Kimberly…

SOFT POWER ASL Interpreted Performance on September 6 For tickets visit SigTheatre.org A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Tesori (Fun H…

KIMBERLY AKIMBO is playing the Curran Theatre in San Francisco from November 5–December 1, 2024. A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 To…

"Election Night" from SOFT POWER Featuring Andrew Cristi and the cast of SOFT POWER SOFT POWER August 6 – September 15, 2024 For tickets visit SigTheatre.org A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winner…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Screen Actors Guild Foundation and Broadway World have partnered for filmed Conversations Q&A series to recognize and celebrate the vibrant theatre community in New York City and t…

SOFT POWER August 6 – September 15, 2024 For tickets visit SigTheatre.org A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Kimber…

SOFT POWER August 6 – September 15, 2024 For tickets visit SigTheatre.org A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Kimber…

Show Them Who You Are" from SUFFS, performed by Hawley Gould & Monica Tulia Ramirez at The Public Theater's GO PUBLIC! Block Party on July 28, 2024. This performance was part of the "Public Theater Greatest Hit…

Two-time Tony winner Michael Cerveris will play Reverend Jerry Falwell in the Elton John musical Tammy Faye on Broadway. The show begins performances at Broadway's Palace Theatre on October 19 with an officia…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Today we rewind to 2015, when Fun Home arrived at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it played for 583 performances.

SOFT POWER August 6 – September 15, 2024 For tickets visit SigTheatre.org A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Kimber…

BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look at the cast of Signature Theatre's DC premiere of Soft Power in rehearsal. Soft Power is a musical fantasia with music by Jeanine Tesori (Kimberly Akimbo, Fun Home) and…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will soon presents the Broadway Center Stage production of Footloose. The cast is led by J. Quinton Johnson (Choir Boy, Hamilton,…

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The Public Theater has enjoyed a well deserved reputation as a proving grounds for works that have later found great fame on Broadway. Some of these…

The Public Theater Hosts Block Party on Astor Place Sunday, July 28, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. inside and outside The Public Theater (425 Lafayette St. NYC) FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY: From 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., see P…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Producers IMG Original Content and Carole Shorenstein Hays (Fences, Caroline or Change,Doubt, Take Me Out, Fun Home, A Doll's House, Part 2) announced just yesterday that Academy…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: As previously announced (and just in time for Halloween!) THE HUNTED: ENCORE is a brand-new, action comedy, vampire slayer, musical mockumentary web series centered on Megan a…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: We are yet another day closer to the biggest night on every theatre-lover's calendar- the 69th Annual Tony Awards, which will be co-hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming on …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: We are yet another day closer to the biggest night on every theatre-lover's calendar- the 69th Annual Tony Awards, which will be co-hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming on …

SOFT POWER August 6 – September 15, 2024 Subscribe Today at SigTheatre.org A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Kimbe…

This first-time feature film by writer and director Nicholas Colia will inspire some of the same knowing laughs among grown-up theater kids as “Theater Camp,”  and some of the same sympathetic sighs and …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE AWARDS (NHSMTA)/JIMMY AWARDS- The seventh annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards were held on Monday, June 29, 2015, at the Min…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Now in its 16th season, Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook continues to expand its scope in celebrating the best in American singing and songwriting. Just last nig…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Signature Theatre is presenting the U.S. premiere of And I And Silence, by Naomi Wallace and directed by Caitlin McLeod. The cast includes Trae Harris (Newlyweeds, "Orange Is the N…

A modern musical theatre masterpiece. Directed by Anne Kauffman (The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window) and featuring Tony winner Chuck Cooper (Trouble in Mind), Eddie Cooper (Parade), Andrew Durand (Shucked),…

Hello, show tune lovers! Today's game is all about songs from Broadway musicals that opened in the 2010s - not that long ago! You've probably at least heard of most of the shows included here, but how familia…

KIMBERLY AKIMBO is playing the Curran Theater in San Francisco from November 5–December 1, 2024. A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 To…

Hello, show tune lovers! Today's game is all about songs from Broadway musicals that opened in the 2010s - not that long ago! You've probably at least heard of most of the shows included here, but how familiar …

Mary Kate Morrissey and Alexandra Socha are Wicked’s new Elphaba and Glinda. They will replace Alyssa Fox and McKenzie Kurtz in the roles beginning March 5. Fox and Kurtz are set to play their final performan…

A host of Broadway veterans are climbing onboard the Encores! production of Titanic, now scheduled to run from June 11 through June 23 at New York City Center. The show, featuring music and lyrics by Maury Yest…

Review of the Sunday evening preview performance on January 7, 2024 at Studio 54 in New York City. Starring Kelli O'Hara, Brian d'Arcy James, Byron Jennings, David Jennings, and Tabitha Lawing. Music, lyrics an…

The Tony Award-winning musical is selling out fast at the Aurora theatre The post At Vintage, an electrifying production of ‘Fun Home’ appeared first on OnStage Colorado.

Did you know the cast staged concert performances at the College of Charleston when legislators fought against the use of Alison Bechdel's graphic novel in school curriculum?

The special event will benefit LGBTQIA+ non-profit Outright International and will be streamed.

On January 8 at 6:30PM and 9:30PM, Joe's Pub will present a livestreamed concert of FUN HOME: 10th Anniversary Reunion.

After Shrek the Musical opened on Broadway in 2008, playwright and lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire and composer Jeanine Tesori knew they wanted to collaborate on another project. When it came to deciding what it …

Home, ManchesterThe hit Edinburgh fringe musical about two friends on the trail of a killer has been awkwardly expanded but is still a delight The storyline of this 2022 musical centres on serial killing…

40 Years of Broadway: Creative Influencers: The Designers I've been so fortunate to see some of the greatest stage designs of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Many of the master influencers of their t…

FUN HOME Dublin Post-SHO Report

Head inside curtain call at the Dublin production of FUN HOME 🎥: @bwaySHO #Funhome #dublin #bechdel

40 Years of Broadway: 1983 vs 2023 - The Good Stuff Things change. Sometimes for the better. Sometimes not so much. It's true in every aspect of life, and it is definitely true of Broadway (the business) an…

Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere, and Matt Tamanini review Uncle Vanya in a loft, The Bridges of Madison County @ Signature Theatre in Washington D.C., Lighthouse: An Immersive Drinking Musical at Soho Playh…

The North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre production of FUN HOME is a testament as to why representation matters. Read Kim Jackson's review of the show. The post The NRACT Production of FUN HOME Checks All t…

By ROY BERKO Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist who came to national attention via her long-running comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For.” She combined her life story and her comic strip style in the graphic mem…

Jeanine Tesori just won a Tony Award for her Broadway musical, “Kimberly Akimbo,” making her the first female composer to win multiple Tony Awards for composing. In the latest entry to Playbill's video seri…

Quinn Titcomb is part of a terrific cast that lifts the latest 'Fun Home' staging, directed by David Muse

The superb acting will resonate with LGBTQ and straight audiences alike.

Plays containing lesbian leads are sadly—at least in this lesbian’s opinion—few and far between. Broadway musicals containing a lead character who is lesbian are even scarcer. In fact, prior to “Fun Hom…

Godrey Simmons, Artistic Director of Hartbeat Ensemble. and Bowdie. Simmons introduced Michael Price who then introduced animal; trrainer Bill Berloni who received the Tom Killen Award. All photos by Melanie C …

Interview with the three actresses who play Alison Bechdel in Studio Theatre's production of "Fun Home," the stage musical based on Bechdel's graphic novel.

Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride with iconic songs from & Juliet, Hedwig, Rent, Fun Home, La Cage aux Folles, and more.

The new Audible podcast based on Bechdel’s comic strip boasts a powerful team of queer theatre artists.

Cherrelle Skeete (Fun Home) gets into character as Beneatha at the photoshoot for Beneatha's Place, a blistering satire by Kwame Kwei-Armah coming to the Young Vic from 27 June: https://www.youngvic.org/whats-o…

After seeing nearly the full slate off Broadway shows this season, some thoughts on the Tony Award nominations that were announced on Tuesday: — She was robbed. I am shocked that Laura Linney was not nominate…

Fun Home Tony nominee Malone, Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls, and Mary Ann Stratton penned the musical.

Rhinebeck Writers Retreat is presenting a reading of the new musical STARSTRUCK, written by Tony-nominee Beth Malone (FUN HOME), Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls, and Mary Ann Stratton.

One of Broadway's most unique spaces, the Circle in the Square Theatre has been home to 10 different productions that we've been privileged to see. The unusual set up of the theater has, in our opinion, force…

Millennial Notes Alison Bechdel Shares Her Sexuality & Emotions by Hamilton Nguyen Alison Bechdel’s tragicomic “Fun Home,” directed by William Thomas Hodgson, zips from one girl’s past and present t…

Bechdel, Kron, Tesori Chart Musical Trail to Queer Identity by Bailey Huston, Umut Yalcinkaya, and Philippa Kelly Under William Thomas Hodgson’s subtle and beautiful direction, “Fun Home” shines with fres…

The new Broadway musical features a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and a score by Fun Home Tony winner Jeanine Tesori.

by Maddy Lanning. @laddymanning. CLEVELAND, Oh. - Retired school teacher Debbie Myers notified her family today that after seeing Fun...

The two-time Tony nominee is busier than ever with 1776, A Beautiful Noise and Ain't No Mo' --- Emilio Sosa is making up for lost time. The 55-year-old costume designer admits he wasn't a theatre kid while grow…

In this episode, Christine interviews longtime friends and colleagues, Lisa Kron and John Weidman. Both John and Lisa have served as officers on the Dramatists Guild Council; under their purview, the Guild grew…

The two-time Tony nominee talks about bringing his memoir Walking with Ghosts to New York --- Gabriel Byrne isn't exactly sure how many characters he's currently playing on Broadway. In his one-man theatrical m…

From creating a one-woman show, "Beth Malone: So Far" to originating the role of "Fun Home's" Alison Bechdel, Tony and Grammy award nominee Beth Malone has set a name for herself on the Broadway stage. Beth tak…

"Fun Home," the musical based on Alison Bechdel's "family tragicomic" graphic novel memoir, is at TheaterWorks Hartford through Oct. 30. The production unfortunately loses its plot and its balance in telling th…

Rob Ruggiero directs the Tony-winning musical at the Connecticut venue.

In this Artist Exploration, Beth and Charlie discuss: Closing down her school & Going on tour with a rock band Journey back to finish Undergrad and Grad School Commercial World Her experience with

Rob Ruggiero directs the Tony-winning musical at the Connecticut venue.

TheaterWorks Hartford's new production of the musical "Fun Home" features a range of artistic images projected onto the show's lush funeral home setting. The show, directed by Rob Ruggiero, runs Oct. 8-30.

Rob Ruggiero will direct the Tony-winning musical at the Connecticut venue.

TheaterWorks Hartford will open its 2022-2023 season with Fun Home. The cast for Fun Home includes Broadway veterans Aaron Lazar as Bruce, Christiane Noll as Helen, and Sarah Beth Pfeifer.

Lisa Kron Spotlights Alison Bechdel’s Unfolding Sexual Identity by Patricia L. Morin Lisa Kron’s “Fun Home” is a beautiful, heart-rending portrayal of the hidden anguish of a dysfunctional family, as se…

Fun Home is the Tony Award-winning story of a daughter and father, of coming out and coming to terms with a life shaped by a family’s secrets.