theatre huntington season-2025-2026

Date Seen: November 29, 2025

Official Site: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/fun-home/

Synopsis

Fun Home is a groundbreaking, emotionally rich musical based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir. It traces Alison through childhood, college, and adulthood as she unravels her coming-out story and examines her complex relationship with her brilliant, volatile, and closeted father. The musical explores how the mysteries of her father’s life shaped her own understanding of love and the acceptance of her lesbian identity.

Media & Reviews

• YouTube: The Huntington’s Fun Home Playlist / Video Content
• Review - The Boston Globe: “An outstanding production!” with “not a weak spot in the cast.”
• Review - The Arts Fuse: Dramatizes the struggle of looking at parents through adult eyes with grace, humor, and pathos.
• Review - The Tech: Stated that the production was “devastating, joyful and necessary.”

My Review

Musical set in a funeral world. Amazing set. Musicals are not my thing usually but this was insanely good.