Tag: comedy

• 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

• Memoir: Where babies come from (1968)

  

  Even dogs, the noblest of creatures in my mind, were stained with the same mammalian taint of bestial inter-penetration. Oh, it was hard for a while to look at dogs, even my beloved Carin Terrier Marilyn, with respect.

  abendelow

  February 25, 2024

  memoir

  Carin Terrier, comedy, dog, dog breeding, dogs, humor, life, memoir, mestruation, oak park, rehm park, sexual education