The musical “Fun Home” poignantly explores the corrosive secrets that send ripples of pain through a Pennsylvania family. The show, though, is mindful that few households — even the most troubled — ...

A place often associated with quiet reflection came alive with laughter and costumes as Culley’s MeadowWood Funeral Home ...

The funeral of a loved one can be a sad time or a moment for the celebration of life. For one funeral home in Wheeling, Illinois, it will be a celebration because of a recent measure approved by the ...

Over the past week, when asking friends and newsroom colleagues if they’ve heard of Alison Bechdel, they’ve tended to furrow their brows and look upward and to the right, as if I’d asked them to solve ...

It earned a whopping 12 Tony Award nominations on Broadway, winning five including Best Musical of 2015, before going on tour for one of the most powerful musicals I have ever seen at National Theatre ...

“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 ...

So many forces keep Fun Home aloft that listing them threatens to emphasize the mechanical side instead of celebrating the exuberant emotional effect. The 2015 Tony Award-winning musical flies from ...

It's one of the strange new realities of this deadly pandemic: The funeral industry, of all things, is getting crushed. In fact, business is so bad that funeral directors worry it might never fully ...

“Fun Home,” the big Tony-winning Broadway musical of 2015, can be a tricky emotional balancing act. In trying to give equal time to its most distressed characters, TheaterWorks often upsets that ...

No, no, no. Please. Stop it. Stop it, please. Must we put the “fun” in funeral? Should we make death as whimsical as a made-for-TV Hallmark Channel movie starring Mary Steenburgen? Why the glum face?

It's one of the strange new realities of this deadly pandemic: The funeral industry, of all things, is getting crushed. In fact, business is so bad that funeral directors worry it might never fully ...