Review: ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ Both Great and Small, Seizes the Day
Being a former good kid — and, like Seth, an aficionado of “the puzzleistic arts” — I began to see the character and the show in anagrammatic terms. (Possibly this one: sublime cast = best musical.) As the past and the present interpenetrate in Clark’s performance, you may feel, as I did, the themes of “Kimberly Akimbo” recombining to achieve an even sharper focus.
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