Fun Home: A heartwarming and heartbreaking triumph
Theatre: Adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir is bursting with five-star performances
Alison Bechdel
The Bechdel test ‘was just a little lesbian joke in the 1980s. I never meant for it to be some kind of rule’
Alison Bechdel, whose musical Fun Home is coming to the Gate, on her work, film theory and growing up gay without a map
DTF review | The Train: A theatrical manifesto, exuberantly played for laughs
This isn’t the most serious meditation on gender equality, but it’s definitely one of the most charming
Five-star review: There's something about Caitlin
Caitlin Moran’s live show is an empowering experience – and she’s only getting started
Sweden puts the Bechdel test to the test
Sandra Bullock in Gravity is an anomaly as far as Bechdel’s rules are concerned
Women with convictions: ‘This is a female show and it’s badass’
Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black’, about a middle-class citizen who ends up in a tough prison, hands strong roles to its overwhelmingly female ensemble cast
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