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‘Fun Home’ Theater Review: When Life With Father Is Anything but Easy The play is to fathers what “Gypsy” is to mothers, and Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori have created a daddy who’s every ...
TheaterWorks’ long-awaited production of “Fun Home,” postponed multiple times by the COVID-19 pandemic, finally opens on Saturday. Part of the magic of the musical is that no two … ...
“Fun Home” is based on a graphic novel memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel and probes many of life’s paradoxes through the recollection of the authorial lesbian character ...
For fans of “Fun Home,” the 2015 Broadway musical by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori that won five Tony Awards, a trip to downtown Aurora in coming weeks is essential. There’s a Metr… ...
For Amanda Naughton, the memories of seeing “Fun Home” for the first time are still vivid three years later: “The lump in my throat, a swelling in my heart, and tears. And my brai… ...
Fun Home, now at Cain Park's Alma Theatre, is a glorious puzzle—a contradictory and searching mess that requires the audience to sometimes work as hard as the actors to fully experience the way ...
In 2022, after a seven-year absence, multihyphenate theater artist Stephen Schellhardt returned to acting in Paramount Theatre’s revival of “Fun Home,” the musical by composer Jeanine Tesori ...
"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 ...
Alison Bechdel of Bolton, whose book was the basis for the musical, and Oscar Williams of Charlotte, who performed in the show, discuss its legacy.
The three faces of Alison—child, college student, adult cartoonist—mirror family secrets in a beautiful and heartbreaking production.
New Village Arts set to bring relatable ‘Fun Home’ musical to life onstage Inspired by a Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel, the Tony-winning musical is the story of her ...