“Purcell is a respected theater critic, and here she is at her best in the terrific, chapter-long treatment of Fun Home, the groundbreaking Broadway musical adapted from Alison Bechtel’s graphic novel (2006), which boasts the first-ever lesbian protagonist in a Broadway musical…there are noteworthy gems: a fascinating portrait of Antoinette Perry, for whom Broadway’s Tony Awards are named; a feminist critique of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s male-dominant Hamilton; and a telling exposé of the destructive preponderance of white, male theater critics. Endnotes are extensive and valuable.”