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 ...

Based on Alison Bechdel's best-selling graphic memoir of the same name, Fun Home, the 2015 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, features music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Fun Home” is a story about the ripple events of suicide, as one woman grapples with survivor’s guilt for living a free and open life. “Fun Home,” the musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel ...

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 ...

They say good things come in threes, though perhaps only when a trio of good things does, in fact, occur in rapid succession. Whether or not the adage is true, that’s exactly what’s happened to Alison ...

Alison Bechdel wove herself into the fabric of lesbian cultural identity when she started publishing her comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” in Minneapolis back in 1983. CATHY WURZER: You may have ...

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 ...

Alison Bechdel has been worried about selling out for decades. Not selling out of books — the award-winning graphic novelist has more than enough to go around — but selling out to capitalism for the ...

Alison Bechdel has raised the bar rather significantly. She's expanded her craft well beyond simple cartooning to become a graphic memoirist. She's also a gay pioneer, having created the ...