--- title: James Comey Attends 'Fun Home' Performance With Wife In D.C. description: Days after President Donald Trump fired him, former FBI Director James Comey was spotted at a performance of "Fun Home" in Washington, D.C. canonical: https://time.com/4778429/james-comey-donald-trump-fun-home/ author: Jennifer Calfas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-14T15:28:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:54:49.856Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ousted FBI Director James Comey Spotted at Performance Of Hit Musical og:description: "It was the best thing they could have picked for their first outing" og:url: https://time.com/4778429/james-comey-donald-trump-fun-home/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e5cb2651199e3fa/6988cd2997cdffc7666b0afd/comey1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: James Comey og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ousted FBI Director James Comey Spotted at Performance Of Hit Musical twitter:description: "It was the best thing they could have picked for their first outing" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e5cb2651199e3fa/6988cd2997cdffc7666b0afd/comey1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ousted FBI Director James Comey Spotted at Performance Of Hit Musical by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas May 14, 2017 3:28 PM UTC  James Comey in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2017. James Comey in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2017.Susan Walsh—AP by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas May 14, 2017 3:28 PM UTC Just days after being [fired](http://time.com/4773210/donald-trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey/) by [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4778240/donald-trump-liberty-university-speech-transcript/), former FBI Director [James Comey](http://time.com/4778010/james-comey-testify-senate-intelligence-committee/) was spotted at a performance of _Fun Home_ in Washington, D.C. over the weekend. In one of his first public appearances since the high-profile dismissal, Comey and his wife, Patrice Comey, attended a matinee performance of the award-winning musical during its national tour. Comey and his wife posed for a photo with the company of the show after the performance at the National Theater. > [](https://twitter.com/funhomemusical/status/863524218239164419) [_Fun Home_](http://time.com/4312831/fun-home-kids-lin-manuel-miranda-song/) won the Tony Award for best new musical in 2015\. The musical is a true story that revolves around the life of [Alison Bechdel](http://time.com/3840307/alison-bechdel-on-fun-home-her-new-book-and-that-famous-test/), a lesbian cartoonist, and features flashbacks to her childhood and reflections of her past in an attempt to understand her father’s suicide. _Fun Home_ had the first all-female writing team to win the Tony Award for best original score. Trump fired Comey on May 9, citing his handling of the investigation into [Hillary Clinton’s](http://time.com/4768216/health-care-bill-ahca-hillary-clinton-fight-back/) use of a private email sever as reason for his dismissal. However, Democrats — and some Republicans — have questioned Trump’s motives for firing Comey, since the former FBI director was also investigating whether the Trump campaign had colluded with Russian officials to help influence the 2016 U.S. election. Barbara Whitman, one of the show’s lead producers, [told the New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/theater/comey-fun-home-musical.html?%5Fr=0) that Comey and his wife had bought tickets a while ago, and that their daughter had inspired them to see it. “Their daughter saw the tour in Chicago and told them they had to see it,” Whitman told the _Times_. “They were wiping away the tears as they came backstage to meet the cast. He said something to the effect of it was the best thing they could have picked for their first outing.” Comey is not the only government official to go to the theater after enduring a public setback. Hillary Clinton has been spotted at a host of Broadway shows over the last several months since losing the 2016 election, including _Sunset Boulevard_ and the final performance of _The Color Purple._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4778429/james-comey-donald-trump-fun-home/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4778429/james-comey-donald-trump-fun-home/"},"headline":"Ousted FBI Director James Comey Spotted at Performance Of Hit Musical","datePublished":"2017-05-14T15:28:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:54:49.856Z","description":"\"It was the best thing they could have picked for their first outing\"","url":"https://time.com/4778429/james-comey-donald-trump-fun-home/","keywords":["intelligence","FBI","James Comey","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e5cb2651199e3fa/6988cd2997cdffc7666b0afd/comey1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jennifer Calfas","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e5cb2651199e3fa/6988cd2997cdffc7666b0afd/comey1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"James Comey","caption":"James Comey in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2017.","creditText":"Susan Walsh—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/intelligence/","name":"intelligence"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4778429/james-comey-donald-trump-fun-home/","name":"Ousted FBI Director James Comey Spotted at Performance Of Hit Musical"}}]}] ```