Installation view, ‘Dykes, Dads, and Moms to Watch Out For: The Comics of Alison Bechdel’ at the UM Institute for the Humanities Gallery (all photos by Sarah Nesbitt, courtesy the UM Institute for the ...
The Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home tells the story of graphic novelist Alison Bechdel's testing time of writing her autobiography. The Community Players Theatre gives the musical's ...
It’s one expression of vulnerability to tell your life story in a graphic novel depicted through drawings and words. It hits a different level when that story is adapted to a play and becomes the ...
Alison Bechdel was planning to go for a run following this interview, but now she wasn’t so sure that was going to happen. A storm had deposited several inches of snow outside her home in northern ...
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 ...
A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that two high schools in the North Hunterdon-Voorhees School District of New Jersey had chosen to restrict access to Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Fun Home.
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 ...
When: Friday through Feb. 18; 7 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Where: Stage Left, 108 W. 3rd Ave. Cost: $35, $30 for seniors, the military and students. “Fun Home” is the ...
After writing two family memoirs that involved a lot of grueling soul-searching, Alison Bechdel thought she would focus on something more lighthearted for her next book — exercise. But for the creator ...
Fun Home: Alison Bechdel and Jeanine Tesori, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Alison Bechdel is the author of the graphic novel “Fun Home,” and Jeanine Tesori is the composer of the musical ...
Alison Bechdel, the graphic artist, autobiographical author and MacArthur Genius, will visit Yale on Thursday to speak about her life and writing. Bechdel first gained prominence for her weekly comic ...