‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Review: A Courageous Coming of Age
A family mired in dysfunction. A young woman facing a terminal diagnosis. Teenage angst. Teenage romance. An eccentric aunt. These familiar and potentially hackneyed elements combine, in a nigh-wondrous feat of theatrical legerdemain, to bring to Broadway the best musical of the year so far, by far: the breathtakingly lovely and often riotously funny “Kimberly Akimbo.”
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