Fun Home – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Official Opening Update
Fun Home is an emotional, beautiful new musical at The Public Theater. It is based on Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, a graphic memoir by and about Alison Bechdel.
We’ve been champions of Fun Home since the workshop version last year. It opened to stellar reviews and the theater-going public loves it too. Ticket sales are brisk and the word-of-mouth is passionate.
The Public already extended Fun Home’s performance schedule but don’t count on additional extensions, scheduling at the Public can get complicated. Get your tickets now.
Original Post, September 18, 2013
There are so many exciting elements to the upcoming production of Fun Home at The Public Theater:
(1) It’s about Alison Bechdel, an artist famous for her subversive and hilarious comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and graphic memoirs about her family, growing up at a funeral home (i.e. fun home), and coming out as a lesbian. Bechdel is a real person with an unique personal history. Her story is the type rarely, if ever, seen on stage.
(2) The music is by Jeanine Tesori, composer of the Tony Award-nominated scores for Twelfth Night; Thoroughly Modern Millie; and Caroline, or Change.
(3) The book and lyrics are by Lisa Kron, author of plays 2.5 Minute Ride, Well, and In the Wake.
(4) It’s directed by Maxamoo-fav Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation).
(5) Among many other wonderful actors, it stars Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn and Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris.
(6) An earlier workshop of Fun Home at the Public was already amazing.
LOCATION
Newman Theater at The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York City
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RUNNING TIME
1 hour 45 minutes, no intermission
TICKETS
Regular Price: $81.50-91.50 (click for tickets)
Member Price:$45
DATES
Extended through January 12, 2014
REVIEWS
New York Times
Family as a Hall of Mirrors
New York Post
‘Fun Home’ is affecting but also frustrating
Newsday
Brilliant, emotional
New York Magazine
The Miraculous Fun Home
Theatermania
Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori bring Alison Bechdel’s memoir to the stage in a form-changing adaptation.
AndrewAndrew
It’s a really good, solid show based upon a graphic novel.
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron
Based on the Alison Bechdel book
Directed by Sam Gold
Featuring Griffin Birney, Michael Cerveris, Roberta Colindrez, Noah Hinsdale, Judy Kuhn, Sydney Lucas, Beth Malone, Joel Perez, Alexandra Socha