Being gay is an important part of the narrative of the musical Fun Home, which is based on Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir of the same name and opened on Broadway this month. The protagonist, the ...

Alison Bechdel's career as a cartoonist started with her comic strip, "Dykes To Watch Out For,” which ran from 1983 to 2008. In 2006, Bechdel wrote “Fun Home,” a graphic novel memoir about her ...

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 ...

"Fun Home" is a delicate portrait of family dysfunction that has only gotten richer in the 18 months since it premiered at The Public Theater. Many members of the Off-Broadway cast return for the ...

"Fun Home" the Tony-winning musical, based on Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel, is a serious show about a serious topic, showing how members of a dysfunctional family come to terms - ...

If you’ve read Alison Bechdel‘s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, or seen the musical based on it, you might understand becoming obsessed with it. That’s why I’m adding even more content to the article I ...

When Fun Home won Best Musical at last week’s Tony Awards ceremony, four Alison Bechdels took the stage to accept it. There was the original article, the 54-year-old cartoonist who chronicled her ...

Bringing historical figures to life onstage is nothing new to Michael Cerveris, the stage and screen actor who added another Tony nomination to his collection (four nominations and one win) with his ...

ALISON BECHDEL was at the center of not only the personal storm, but also the creative form. And so when her masterpiece of a memoir moved from page to stage, she never claimed to have the best ...