Kimberly Akimbo at Boston Center for the Arts

In this critically acclaimed dark comedy from Pulitzer Prize-winning South Boston native David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole), the title character is a teenager with a rare disease that causes her to age several times faster than normal. By her 16th birthday, Kimberly looks more like her grandmother than her own peers. At a time when most young girls are celebrating the beginning of adulthood, she's facing the end of her life. When Kimberly and her family flee their hometown under dubious circumstances, she finds herself re-evaluating her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a con artist of an aunt, her own mortality and -- perhaps most terrifying of all -- the possibility of first love. Catch this heartwarming and quirky coming-of-age play at the Boston Center for the Arts' Plaza Theatre.