Seven Days

A Review: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home the Musical

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 ...
The Inlander

Adapted from Alison Bechdel's acclaimed graphic memoir, Fun Home is a musical of self-discovery and reconciliation

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 ...
BroadwayWorld

Fun Home 2015

2015 Tony Awards Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Lisa Kron 2015 Tony Awards Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Jeanine Tesori 2015 Tony ...
Delco Times

Eisenhower, ‘Fun Home’ open Wednesday at Media Theatre

Gotta do it,” Jennie Eisenhower said when Media Theatre artistic director Christian Ryan told her the 2015 Tony recipient for ...
The Daily Gazette

Review: ‘Fun Home’ creator Alison Bechdel looks back to her Minneapolis days with ‘Spent’

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 ...
Playbill

After Fun Home , Alison Bechdel Is Introducing Dykes to Watch Out For to a New Generation After Fun Home , Alison Bechdel Is Introducing Dykes to Watch Out For to a New Generation

Mid-sentence, Alison Bechdel stops herself, laughing. “I’m sorry,” she says, “I keep speaking so effusively, but it’s really exciting. I never dreamed this level of talent would get brought to this ...
Digital Spy

Fun Home's Alison Bechdel wins MacArthur Genius Grant

Alison Bechdel has been named one of the winners of the 2014 MacArthur Genius Grant. The 54-year-old Fun Home creator is among one of 21 recipients of this year's MacArthur Fellowship prize. The grant ...