Aimee Small directs Country Playhouse’s production of the poignant David Lindsay-Abaire comedy Kimberly Akimbo. Suffering from a rare disease that causes her to age rapidly, Kimberly is a teenager with the body of an old woman. Faced with the certainty of her impending death, Kimberly tries to live as normal a life as she can. That’s not easy with a hypochondriac mom, an alcoholic dad and a scamming aunt. Add to the mix a teenage boy who just might give Kimberly her first kiss, and Kimberly’s life is anything but normal.
8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. April 21 and 7:30 p.m. April 25. Through April 27. Country Playhouse, 12802 Queensbury. For information, call 713-467-4497 or visit countryplayhouse.org. $22.
Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sun., April 21, 2 p.m.; Thu., April 25, 7:30 p.m. Starts: April 12. Continues through April 27, 2013
This article appears in Jun 14-20, 2012.