The Bechdel family has a funeral home (dubbed Fun Home by the kids) and also a not-fun family home.
There was a perfection to the timing of FUN HOME’s arrival in Philadelphia: Another take on FUN HOME
FUN HOME is both a musical and a family drama; it’s also an activist declaration
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THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (IRC): Corruption! A production that forefronts Gogol’s surprising, desperate, hypnotizing dialogue. Illustration by Mike Jackson. 
PlayPenn, Theater, and “A comfortable place for misfits”: Interview with founder Paul Meshejian, Part 1 It’s unfashionable to suggest there’s such a thing as human nature, but we are “Homo narrans”—Man, the story teller. The theater will always... 
COME TOGETHER FESTIVAL: Dance review, part 1 The collective energy of the deep field of Philly dance and visiting artists created a palpable festival atmosphere. 
SOMETHING ROTTEN in Philadelphia: Philly natives return with the touring production Philadelphia natives Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis are returning home for SOMETHING ROTTEN. 
THE CRAFTSMAN (Lantern): Crafting a good story Now in its world premiere from Lantern Theater, the latest play by Philly’s favorite playwright Bruce Graham is based on a true story. It’s ... 
// Completed in 1904, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov’s final dramatic work, is the most often staged of all Russian plays worldwide, and its production at People’s Light & Theatre Company (adaptation by Emily Mann) affirms why. Combining insightful socio-cultural farce with gripping human pathos, its dual nature as comedy and tragedy is captured in spades by director Abigail Adams and her extraordinary team of actors and designers. Set at the turn of the 20th century, in the pivotal time that saw the decline of the aristocracy, the rise of the bourgeoisie following the abolition of serfdom in 1861, and the fulmination of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Chekhov’s story revolves around the auction sale of an aristocratic estate, with its extensive cherry orchard, to pay off the family’s delinquent mortgage and growing debt. more…
