Bechdel’s Fun Home Extended Again

Critically Acclaimed in Year-End Posts

NEW YORK – The musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home has been extended for a third time.

The Off-Broadway Public Theater has announced the most recent extension will be through Jan. 12.

The Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron musical opened in September to superlative reviews. It dramatizes graphic cartoonist Bechdel’s coming of age in Beech Creek in the 1970s.

Most recently New York Times theatre reviewer Ben Brantley included Fun Home as one of the 15 best productions, on or off Broadway, for the year.

Brantley called the production “a memory musical that stirs the shadows of crippling family secrets” that “gave echoing voice to filial ambivalence and guilt.”

This week’s New York Magazine listed the “Ten Best Plays of the Year” and included Fun Home as number two: “Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir about growing up gay with a closeted dad underwent the most unlikely genre translation imaginable to become the year’s best new musical, both hilarious and crushing.”