Fun Home review – Alison Bechdel’s musical memoir feels every emotion

A celebration of the cartoonist’s sexual awakening and queer identity as well as an investigation of darker family dynamics, this soulful show wears its heart on its sleeve ...
WhatsOnStage

Fun Home revival – first look photos released

Reuben Shepherd (John) and Harriet O’Shea (Small Alison), while behind are Alex Young (Helen Bechdel) and Nigel Harman (Bruce ...
WhatsOnStage

Fun Home at the Royal Exchange Theatre – review

With music written by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, the show premiered on Broadway in 2015, before ...
Christian Science Monitor

Alison Bechdel's memoir 'Fun Home' runs into trouble with the South Carolina House of Representatives

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
The Portland Mercury

No, YOU’RE Crying at Your Desk About Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home Coda

Before she was the reluctant namesake of the ubiquitous Bechdel Test, Alison Bechdel wrote the great “family tragicomic,” Fun Home, about her father’s suicide and her family’s repression. In 2012, she ...
Chicago Tribune

Review: The musical ‘Fun Home’ holds cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s memories up to the light

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 ...