“Fun Home” shoves overdone musical theater tropes, narrative structures and themes onto a mortician’s table for reexamination. Based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel of the same name, the musical is ...
“Fun Home” is a story about the ripple events of suicide, as one woman grapples with survivor’s guilt for living a free and open life. “Fun Home,” the musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel ...
Based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir, Fun Home is a groundbreaking and deeply personal musical that explores family, identity, and self-discovery. Told through a series of nonlinear ...
On a stage, this layered and intensely personal story is hard to get right — The Huntington offered audiences an expertly ...
In Fun Home, a groundbreaking and deeply personal musical, Alison Bechdel revisits her past to make sense of her father’s secrets and her own journey to self-discovery. Through a haunting and ...
Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques. In the backdrop of Pigott Theatre, there are a handful of massive, gorgeous, anatomical panels. They ...
The show that closed Stage Left Theater's 2023 season was Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive. It was a memory play that saw its main character, Li'l Bit, reconciling her present and past selves in a ...
When: Friday through Feb. 18; 7 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Where: Stage Left, 108 W. 3rd Ave. Cost: $35, $30 for seniors, the military and students. “Fun Home” is the ...
Alison Bechdel’s real life story lives up to the saying, “You can’t make this stuff up.” As she is quick to confess in her memoir: “My dad and I both grew up in the same small Pennsylvania town. He ...
“Fun Home” is the best musical of this century. And, yes, I have seen “Hamilton.” Don’t get me wrong. “Hamilton” is great (although its choreography is not), and so is the musical I’d argue is the ...
WAVE Productions will debut “Fun Home” this weekend at Norris University Center’s Louis Room. Based on Alison Bechdel’s memoir of the same name, the musical follows the journey of Bechdel’s life, ...
Carly Gold as Small Alison, Robert Petkoff as Bruce and Kate Shindle as Alison in "Fun Home." (Courtesy Joan Marcus/Broadway in Boston) Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, wielding pen, ink and elusive ...