Impending demise, family dysfunction and teenage social anxieties may not seem like an equation for a feel-good stage musical ...

Adapted from David Lindsay-Abaire’s decidedly darker stageplay, “Akimbo” focuses on Kimberly Levaco, a new girl in town (Bergen County, N.J., the butt of more than a few of the musical’s ...

The Broadway production closed in 2024 after more than 600 performances. Main character Kimberly Levaco was born with an incredibly rare genetic condition that causes her to age four to five times ...

is also in “Kimberly Akimbo” playing Kimberly’s father, Buddy Levaco. “Now that I’m in ‘Kimberly,’ what is next? Something original would be incredible, something I know nothing ...

Family secrets, divides over gender, and immigration stories. Local theaters dive into heavy topics this season. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair shares the productions she's looking forward to.

Death looms large in “Kimberly Akimbo.” We learn not long into the first act that 15-year-old Kimberly Levaco suffers from a rare genetic disease that causes rapid aging; most people afflicted with ...