Rightlynd

★★★/4! “Powerful,” “Timely,” and “Pugnacious”
Rightlynd is a “pop-culture, superhero-infused” blast written by the “tiptop of Chicago’s most poetic and knowing young writers.”

- Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

★★★1⁄2/4! Holter pulls out all of the realistic stops, the better to express his disdain for the city’s entire political system. The play is peppered with giddy, full-on musical numbers (with music by Charlie Coffeen of the band Sidewalk Chalk and lyrics by Holter), a full-cast fight sequence, and raucously self-aware comic interludes.

- Chicago Sun Times

★★★★★/5! “[A] triumphant new play, in which Holter adds a bold, profane and electrifying chapter to his saga.”

- Time Out Chicago

“Rightlynd” is one of the not-to-be-missed theater events of the year. For which I have but one thing to say: you already know."

- Newcity

RIGHTLYND

Rightlynd is Chicago’s 51st Ward. The L doesn’t run here anymore and it is full of abandoned storefronts, crumbling apartment buildings, and its fair share of crime. A powerful real estate conglomerate is planning a massive redevelopment project that would gentrify the neighborhood and change Rightlynd forever. Only one woman stands in the way: Alderman Nina Esposito. In award-winning local playwright Ike Holter’s ambitious new work, one woman tries to use her street smarts and raw determination to save the Chicago neighborhood she loves. But will the political machine turn her into the very person she is trying to destroy?

 Full of musical numbers, fight scenes, intense confrontations and “Star Wars” style world building, “Rightlynd” is both a large, sprawling political odyssey, and a deeply personal journey into what it means to reach for the impossible--and then pay the price.