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Kimberly Akimbo review – Quirky American musical manages to mine comedy from a strange, bleak premise

4/5 Sixty-six-year-old Maria Friedman shines as a teenage girl with a rare genetic condition in a lively and well-staged production

The Independent UK · Sep 10

Kimberly Akimbo: Witty musical about a teen with an ageing disorder

4/5 This show at the Hampstead Theatre chooses subversive fun and features a star turn from Maria Friedman

Evening Standard · Sep 10

‘We all have an expiry date’: Kimberly Akimbo, the achingly funny musical about a teen with a 64-year-old body

The uplifting, award-winning show about a girl ageing four times too fast electrified New York. As it hits the UK, co-creator Jeanine Tesori talks about being inspired by the Aids crisis and all her friends who died young

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8

Blue review – racial violence, love and loss in a lyrical and angry work of unflinching power

Jeanine Tesori’s opera, with its tragically familiar narrative of police brutality, is compellingly told in Tinuke Craig’s nuanced production for English National Opera.

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2023

Broadway musical 'Kimberly Akimbo' creates upside-down world

The seed for one of the best musicals on Broadway this season sprang from an off-hand comment about an infant

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022

Review: New Broadway musical ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ probes what it means to be an adult

NEW YORK — Some kids get called “old souls,” a reference not just to surprising maturity but the hint of melancholy in their demeanor. They seem to intuit life’s pending pain and losses when they’re supposed to be inhabiting the joyful intensity of youth.

Tribune News Service · Nov 11, 2022