Ready for Company and Other Family Tales
"Ready for Company and Other Family Tales" is at times quite heartwarming. Amidst jokes and cakes, Kim Ima explores her family history across a century of change in the United States. The tone is light, Ima is quite fun as a performer, and the show never wears out its welcome. While the show is charming for what it is, yet leaves much material unexplored. Instead, there are long digressions about aunts and grandfathers that tend to blend together, making it difficult to keep track of who’s who in the winding family tree the show seeks to present. Ima herself is at ease onstage, with a definite charisma. However, the show’s subject matter often renders the entire production perfectly pleasant though somewhat forgettable. [more]
