Kimberly Akimbo

David Lindsey-Abaire’s comedy Kimberly Akimbo makes its Oklahoma premiere. Getting through high school is tough, especially if you look more like the lunch ladies than your classmates! That’s the plight of 16-year-old Kimberly who has progeria, a disease that ages her at over four times the normal rate. However, the true test of our teen heroine is her off-kilter family comprised of her sad sack hypochondriac of a mother, her beer guzzling father and her con artist aunt. Kimberly’s harbor from the family storm is her classmate Jeffrey, an anagram geek. The writing is full of humor, poignancy and the idea of making each moment in life count.

Dubbed “The Comedy of the Year” by The New York Times in 2003 and winner of the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award.