Fun Home – Yes!
Best plays read in 2016-2017
Fun Home: A musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home – When a young woman comes out, it unravels other family secrets where family members are now able to confide in one another. Favorite song: “Changing my major”. This musical is the first Tony Award winner where the book, lyrics, and music composers are all women - Lisa Kron (lyrics, book) and Jeanine Tesori (music).
Credit: Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company
Miss Julie, Clarissa and John, by Mark Clayton Southers (2016) - Inspired by August Strindberg's Miss Julie, Mark places the storyline in the US reconstruction-era in the South. This play that deals excellently with the various characters' complexity was also produced in the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.