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Arts & Culture, Theater Preview Jan 19, 2021
Broken Nose passes the Bechdel Test

This year's Bechdel Fest realigns online.
- By Catey Sullivan
- Tags: Theater Preview, Bechdel Fest, Alison Bechdel, Fun Home, Dykes to Watch Out For, Broken Nose Theatre, JD Caudill, Lane Anthony Flores, Iris Sowlat, Asha McAllister

Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 Jun 18, 2019
Essential plays for Pride Month

Out of the closets and onto the stage
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Pride 2019, Pride Month, essential plays, LGBTQ theater, theater history, Lanford Wilson, The Madness of Lady Bright, Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, Martin Sherman, Bent, Jane Chambers, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, Harvey Fierstein, Torch Song Trilogy, Torch Song, As Is, William M. Hoffman, The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer, Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Fun Home, Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tesori, Alison Bechdel, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Tina Landau, Ms. Blakk for President, Joan Jett Blakk, Terence Alan Smith, Choir Boy, Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, Moonlight

Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 May 30, 2019
Essential reading for Pride Month

Five memoirs that made me the pansexual freak I am today
- By KT Hawbaker
- Tags: Pride 2019, Pride Month, essential books, Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, How to Grow Up, Michelle Tea, New Visions: All About Love, bell hooks, The Rules Do Not Apply, Ariel Levy, Role Models, John Waters, queer literature, memoirs, queer memoirs

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Dec 17, 2018
Lit recs to dismantle violence, both the personal and systemic

The current book obsessions of Reader staff writer Maya Dukmasova and activist Mariame Kaba.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Lit Feature, Book Swap, Mariame Kaba, Alison Bechdel, Fun Home, Are You My Mother?, All About Love: New Visions, All About Love, Bell Hooks, Lorraine Hansberry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, Ann Russo, Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power, Feminist Accountability, accountability, #MeToo, Me Too, #MeToo movement, gender violence, prison industrial complex, PIC, abolition, prison abolition, feminism, therapy, love, self-love, relationships, motherhood, daughterhood, violence

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 21, 2018
A rising Starr (named Hannah) and their Boombox

In a solo show, the Jeff nominee chronicles the rat race of working Chicago actors.
- By Max Maller
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Boombox, Hannah Starr, Brown Paper Box, Fun Home, Frontier, Minnesota Fringe Festival

Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2017
In Violet, a scarred heroine goes in search of a miracle

Griffin Theatre's production of this Appalachian-flavored musical by Brian Crawley and Jeanine Tesori gives fans of Fun Home a taste of the latter's earlier work.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater, Griffin Theatre Company, Violet, Brian Crawley, Jeanine Tesori, Fun Home, Scott Weinstein, Lauren Nigri, Kasey Alfonso, LaShera Zenise Moore

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 4, 2017
Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Gina Gionfriddo, Becky Shaw, Windy City Playhouse, Scott Weinstein, Rock of Ages, Hell in a Handbag Productions, Bewitched, Bewildered, Ron Weaver, Aaron Benham, Brigitte Ditmars, Fun Home, Victory Gardens Theater, Alison Bechdel, Gary Griffin, Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tesori, Danni Smith and Sage Elliott Harper, Stella Rose Hoyt, Hannah Starr, Sage Elliott Harper, Rob Lindley, McKinley Carter, Akvavit Theatre, Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts & Zombies, Ibsen's Ghosts, Gustav Tegby, Breahan Pautsch, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Amber Sallis, Michael Woods, David Belew, Monster Club, Annoyance Theatre, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Dutch East Indies, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Rocky Balboa Picture Show, Cornservatory, Corn Productions, Rocky IV, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Allison Reinke, Tony n' Tina's Wedding, Paul Stroili, The Trojan Women, Euripides, Three Crows Theatre, Troy, Hector, Battle of Troy, Cassandra, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ronald Duncan, Judith Laughlin, Selena Lopez, Andromache, Worst of All/Peor de Todas, Water People Theater, National Museum of Mexican Art, Juan Jose Martín, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Iraida Tapia, Raquel Rios, Rebeca Alemán, Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, You're a Good Man, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, The Vampyre, John William Polidori, Maureen Monahan, Mark Walsh

Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2016
Chicago Book Expo, Pop-Up Magazine, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Fun Home, Handmade Market Chicago, and more happenings from November 11-13.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Alison Bechdel, Fun Home, Out of This World, Circus, Chicago Book Expo, Jonathan Giles, Revival, Pop-Up Magazine, Robert J. Gordon, Handmade Market Chicago, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, National Museum of Mexican Art, Yollocalli, Chill Set

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 10, 2016
Fun Home, Betrayal, Graeme of Thrones, and 12 more new theater reviews

The Broadway musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel and a Pinter classic are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Another Snowy Day With Beatrix Potter and Friends, Chicago Children's Theatre, Will Bishop, Grace Needlman, Betrayal, Raven Theatre, Harold Pinter, Abigail Boucher, Sam Guinan-Nyhart, Keith Neagle, Cosmic Events Are Upon Us, Waltzing Mechanics, the Romanovs, Keely Leonard, Anastasia, Tsar Nicholas II, Chicago Opera Theater, The Fairy Queen, Henry Purcell, Baroque opera, semi-opera, Andreas Mitisek, Haymarket Opera Orchestra, Marc Molomot, Kimberly E. Jones, First Lady Suite, Michael John LaChiusa, Jackie Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nick Graffagna, Nicholas Reinhart, Circle Theatre, Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tesori, David Zinn, Sam Gold, Robert Petkoff, Abby Corrigan, Graeme of Thrones, Ali Brice, Libby Northedge, Michael Condron, Krampus!, Ghostlight Ensemble, Underground Wonder Bar, Jaclyn Jensen, Mike Wozniak, The Little Flower of East Orange, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Eclipse Theatre Company, Steve Scott, John Henry Roberts, Moon Shot, Theater Unspeakable, Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gargarin, Mark Frost, John F. Kennedy, Apollo 11, Wernher von Braun, NASA, Murder on Mount Olympus, Plautus, Public House Theatre, Byron Hatfield, Bye Bye Liver, Xolotl, Out of This World, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Cirque de Soleil, Rutherford's Travels, Charles Johnson, Middle Passage, Ilesa Duncan, David Barr II, Breon Arzell, Pegasus Theatre, Shrewish, The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare, Artemisia Theatre, Singin' in the Rain, Tammy Mader, Michael Scott, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2012
Q&A with Alison Bechdel: "I feel like mothers are just fucked."

An interview with graphic novelist Alison Bechdel
- By Elly Fishman
- Tags: Books, Things I Love, Arts, Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?, Fun Home, Joan Didion, Time Magazine, Donald Winnicott, Chris Ware

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Broken Nose passes the Bechdel Test

This year's Bechdel Fest realigns online.

Essential plays for Pride Month

Out of the closets and onto the stage

Essential reading for Pride Month

Five memoirs that made me the pansexual freak I am today

Lit recs to dismantle violence, both the personal and systemic

The current book obsessions of Reader staff writer Maya Dukmasova and activist Mariame Kaba.

A rising Starr (named Hannah) and their Boombox

In a solo show, the Jeff nominee chronicles the rat race of working Chicago actors.

In Violet, a scarred heroine goes in search of a miracle

Griffin Theatre's production of this Appalachian-flavored musical by Brian Crawley and Jeanine Tesori gives fans of Fun Home a taste of the latter's earlier work.

Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week's best bets.

Chicago Book Expo, Pop-Up Magazine, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Fun Home, Handmade Market Chicago, and more happenings from November 11-13.

Fun Home, Betrayal, Graeme of Thrones, and 12 more new theater reviews

The Broadway musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel and a Pinter classic are among this week's best bets.

Q&A with Alison Bechdel: "I feel like mothers are just fucked."

An interview with graphic novelist Alison Bechdel

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This year's Bechdel Fest realigns online.

Out of the closets and onto the stage

Five memoirs that made me the pansexual freak I am today

The current book obsessions of Reader staff writer Maya Dukmasova and activist Mariame Kaba.

In a solo show, the Jeff nominee chronicles the rat race of working Chicago actors.

Griffin Theatre's production of this Appalachian-flavored musical by Brian Crawley and Jeanine Tesori gives fans of Fun Home a taste of the latter's earlier work.

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week's best bets.

Fun Home, Handmade Market Chicago, and more happenings from November 11-13.

The Broadway musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel and a Pinter classic are among this week's best bets.

An interview with graphic novelist Alison Bechdel

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