The TV season doesn’t even begin for another two weeks, but CBS is already looking ahead to next year, handing out a pilot production commitment to a multi-camera project, “Fun.” The project, from “2 ...

When Fun Home won the Tony Award in 2015 for best musical, it added an unlikely exclamation point to a seven-year journey of writing, workshops, readings, and rewrites before more writing, workshops, ...

I recently turned 62 and according to Social Security life expectancy projections, I will die when I’m 89.5. With 17.5 years left, now seems like the perfect time to take up extreme sports. Reaching ...

A woman tragically lost her husband last month. But instead of mourning him with the usual tears and black that comes with funerals, she decided to celebrate his life with a “FUNeral.” The New York ...

If you want to get into an industry with steady demand that everybody needs, the mortuary sciences are always looking for employees. No, seriously, we need people to prepare and plant the dead, to ...

No, no, no. Please. Stop it. Stop it, please. Must we put the “fun” in funeral? Should we make death as whimsical as a made-for-TV Hallmark Channel movie starring Mary Steenburgen? Why the glum face?

A funeral home may seem an unlikely setting for a Broadway musical, but it turns out to be an ideal backdrop for the deeply moving “Fun Home.” Boston audiences likely already know the show well, from ...

It's one of the strange new realities of this deadly pandemic: The funeral industry, of all things, is getting crushed. In fact, business is so bad that funeral directors worry it might never fully ...