Review from: www.showbusinessweekly.com

Tarot Reading: Love, Sex and Mommy
Review by Jennifer Prestigiacomo

Competing in Moth StorySLAMs by night and working as a Fox News
producer by day, Kimberlee Auerbach certainly enjoys exploring the
comedy in her life. Her one-woman, self-produced show Tarot Reading:
Love, Sex and Mommy in this year's New York Fringe Festival plays out
as an extended story slam, colored by a reading of the tarot cards.

Aside from the initial technical gaffe and Auerbach's occasional line
requests, Tarot Reading is an enjoyable telling of the common
conundrum many women in their 30s face as they deal with friend and
familial pressures to get hitched and have kids. Auerbach, who is 32
and bases the play on her own experiences, struggles initially to
quell the quaver in her voice as she wrestles with yearning for
greater in her life and accepting who she is. Sure, it's a universal
theme, but Auerbach's sincerity draws you closer like the stranger you
meet at a dinner party who tells the most colorful, self-deprecating
stories.

The performance alternates between Auerbach's personal tales and her
tarot reading. The idea is an interesting one, but gets a bit
cumbersome and protracted with the video of Iris, the tarot card
reader projected on a screen interspersed with Auerbach speaking to
the audience. Touching on topics like child abuse, sibling rivalry and
crabs, Auerbach never focuses too long on one subject, which benefits
this breezy, one-hour affair. You almost want to cheer when Auerbach
finds her "higher self," a black woman named Malvina, and gets
unexpectedly pulled upstairs during a party by her boyfriend Eric, who
takes her willingly from behind. What lies in the cards for Auerbach
is unknown, but for now, all that can be said is that her genuine
talent for storytelling will likely create entertaining chapters in
the future.