My review of the Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo, for Chelsea Community News: Over the last decade the “Sick Lit” genre of young adult fiction has grown in popularity. Tragic tales of teenagers with terminal illnesses have filled stages, pages, and movie screens, but Kimberly Akimbo has a clever twist: Its teenage heroine has a rare aging disease, and she looks like a woman in her 60s, even though she’s really 16. With this story, there is an excuse to replace the waifish ingenues with a leading lady. This story was first presented as a play (written by David Lindsay-Abaire) in 2001, before the teen Sick Lit trend had even begun. Now the play has been recreated as a Broadway musical (Book & Lyrics also by Lindsay-Abaire, Music by Jeanine Tesori) starring Tony Award winner Victoria Clark as Kimberly. Continue Reading at ChelseaCommunityNews.com.