Bathed in a warm spotlight, a little girl experiences a moment of pure joy playing “airplane” with her father, balanced carefully upon his outstretched legs and spreading her arms out wide. With a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...