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 ...

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 ...

With “Spent,” Bechdel circles back to DTWOF with an officially autofictional twist: It follows a graphic novelist named ...

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.

In the world of graphic novels and queer comics, there are few more accomplished than Alison Bechdel. Her groundbreaking comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” was one of the first representations of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...