Category: Theater/Film review

• Review: Kimberly Akimbo (June 2025 at CIBC Theater, Chicago)

  

  There is plenty of darkness in Kimberly’s world. Her very birth was traumatic for her parents, neither of whom has coped well with having produced “faulty” offspring.

  abendelow

  June 26, 2025

  Theater review, Theater/Film review

  1990s, adolescence, alcoholism, Broadway, broadway in chicago, chicago CIBC theater, clash, comedy, Elvin-speaing, genetic disorder, kimberly akimbo, melodrama, Musical-Comedy, pre-IPhone, progeria, queer youth, teenagers, tragedy

• It’s a wonderful lie

  Around this time of year, my wife and I look ahead to the holidays, when the desire to spend time with adult children and grandchildren is large. I make a suggestion or two for events that could bring us together with the younger generations. Then she proposes something we’ve been doing every year for the…

  abendelow

  October 17, 2023

  Theater/Film review

  1970s, American Blues Theater, capitalism, depression, frank capra, GenZ, holiday film, It’s a wonderful life, meet john doe, socialism, USA