‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Broadway Review: A Musical Triumph About a Girl Who Looks Like Her Grandma
It’s still funny and quirky and very off-center, but the story of a rapidly aging 16-year-old girl and her deadbeat family has been grounded. No, not grounded in a high school sort of way. Jeanine Tesori’s music grounds the story in a way that gives the source material resonance, makes it more substantial and far more emotionally engaging.
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I was in my early teens when I first watched Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous and all I wanted to be in life after that was a groupie. As life played out, and considering I’m musically ungifted, it made much more sense to pursue the other career option in the film — a critic. Twenty-two years […]
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‘Walking with Ghosts’ is Forgettable, When It Should Be Haunting
This I believe to be true: theatre offers a form of time travel through storytelling. The performer becomes a spirit guide who guides us all towards meetings with ghosts of the past – in order to see more clearly the here and now. I believe it’s with the same intention that Gabriel Byrne created his […]
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