Red Rex

★★★1⁄2/4 “A riveting show... Holter gets back to firing verbal bullets not unlike those in the similarly knockout Exit Strategy... Truth is Holter’s strength.”

- Chicago Tribune

★★★★/5 “When theater artists make theater about theater, they often come to praise it, not to bury it. But with Red Rex, the penultimate play in his Chicago-set Rightlynd Saga, Ike Holter has brought his shovel—and he’s digging. Red Rex is a brave, incisive and wickedly funny dissection of the ways in which Chicago storefront theater has failed, possibly beyond all redemption.”

- Time Out Chicago

“Holter and the folks at Steep Theatre have achieved something great here: a play that both entertains and edifies. It unflinchingly dares to tackle serious issues and serious ideas, but it never leaves the audience wanting less.”

- Chicago Reader

RED REX

A small theater company moves into an abandoned Chicago storefront. Led by their adventurously thirsty artistic director, they embark on an explosive new play with the hope of finally breaking it big. When the ensemble realizes their source material might not be as original as once assumed, they are thrust into an intense confrontation with residents of their new community, who not only want them out, but will take their story back by any means necessary. Red Rex is the sixth play in Ike Holter's seven part "Rightlynd saga", which also includes Exit Strategy, Prowess, and The Wolf at the End of the Block.