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 ...

A coffin remains the centerpiece of the stage for the entirety of the Columbia Musical Theatre Society’s production of “Fun Home.” It is a constant obstruction in the Bechdel home, while the house ...

The amazing run Vermont has enjoyed on Broadway of late can trace its roots back 10 years ago this month. The musical “Fun Home” opened April 19, 2015 at Circle in the Square Theatre in Manhattan.

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 ...

Bechdel and Taylor do live in Vermont; they are real. The goats are not. I found myself needing to get past a mildly annoying coyness that comes with the what-is-real-and-what-isn’t territory, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Theatre Cedar Rapids brings the Tony Award-winning play, "Fun Home," to the stage March 27 through April 6. Pictured from the top are Aaron Brewer (Bruce Bechdel), Jennifer Fortin Ford (Helen Bechdel) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bechdel is now a professor in the practice at Yale University. She divides her time between teaching for a semester at Yale and living and drawing at her home in West Bolton, Vermont. Bechdel’s wife ...