Fun Home had its work cut out for it. An unconventional musical based on atypical material, a theater with a bad track record for new musicals, and a small budget (meaning fewer marketing dollars).

Playwright Will Eno’s The Open House and Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s musical Fun Home were named best play and musical, respectively, earlier tonight at the 29th annual Lucille Lortel Awards.

On paper, it makes sense that Lisa Kron succeeded in helping to transform Alison Bechdel’s celebrated graphic novel memoir into an award-winning musical , but that doesn’t mean it was simple or easy.

Northampton, MA— The Smith College Department of Theatre presents the five-time Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home April 20, 21, 22, 23 at 7:30 PM and April 23 at ...

You probably don’t have a ton in common with Alison Bechdel — either the real-life acclaimed lesbian cartoonist or the fictionalized Bechdel of lauded musical “Fun Home” — but you probably have ...

Related coverage of Tony Award nominees Carey Mulligan, Elisabeth Moss, Steven Boyer and Tony Yazbeck and some of their craziest on-stage moments. Photo: Getty Images Tony nominations kicked ...

San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon presents the first San Francisco-produced version of the five-time Tony Award winning musical FUN HOME. FUN HOME will perform at the Gateway Theatre through May 8, ...

Carly Gold as Small Alison, Robert Petkoff as Bruce and Kate Shindle as Alison in "Fun Home." (Courtesy Joan Marcus/Broadway in Boston) Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, wielding pen, ink and elusive ...

Bruce Bechdel is supposed to be eloquent. He's the kind of poetically gifted academic who says what he means and means what he says, who can grasp the soft luster of old silver, then find the perfect ...

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 ...