One of the first songs in the excellent new musical Fun Home, adapted from Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, features members of the Bechdel family preparing …
In this astonishing musical there are three Alisons (also the name of the author). There is Small Alison (Sydney Lucas), Medium Alison (Alexandra Socha) and grown up Alison (Beth Malone). …
Fun Home — the new musical by Tony nominees Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron that is based on the darkly comic, coming-of-age graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel — officially opened Off…
The Public Theater’s eagerly awaited new musical Fun Home made its official bow on October 22, and you can tell from the smiling faces in our opening night photo gallery that the compa…
Fun Home — the new musical by Tony nominees Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron that is based on the darkly comic, coming-of-age graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel — officially opened Off…
Noah Hinsdale, Griffin Birney, and Sydney Lucas in Fun Home.
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
To give you an idea of the daring new musical Fun Home, which opened last night at the Public Theater, let…
Book writer-lyricist Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori have turned Alison Bechdel's graphic book into an unusual and well worth seeing musical.'. . . Read More
After two decades in the alternative-press trenches, cartoonist Alison Bechdel burst into the mainstream with the 2006 autobiographical graphic novel "Fun Home." The book was a critical and …
Coming to terms with one's past can be a challenge for most people " but for Alison Bechdel, who intently wonders if her coming out as a lesbian during college resulted in the suicide of her…
"Fun Home," a heartbreaker of a musical, in which one woman tries to solve the mystery of who her father really was, is based on a memoir by Alison Bechdel.
How refreshing " a queer coming-of-age play in which the hero(ine) is not a diva, the parents are not monsters, and people are never mean, even when they’re being cruel.   …
Muddled beginning, smudgy staging and distracting songs in this musical ultimately add up to a tender honesty.NEW YORK — "Fun Home," the musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel's extraord…
Get a first look at Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's new musical, the funeral home-set drama Fun Home. Directed by Sam Gold, the show is based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel and boa…
Two weeks ago, Slate ran a short piece called "Fun Home:Â Is America Ready for a Musical about a Butch Lesbian?"Â The article quotes collaborators Jeanine Tesori [...]
"My dad and I were exactly alike ... nothing alike," sings Alison in "Fun Home," the extraordinary, disturbing and delightful chamber musical at the Public Theater.
