Stages, Theater, Virtual

Review: Goodman Theatre’s I Hate It Here Lets You Rage Against Your Own 2020 Machine

I Hate It Here: Stories From the End of the Old World is a play performed live and written as a concept album by Chicago’s Ike Holter with snappy direction […]

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Audio, Stages, Theater

Review: Ike Holter’s I Hate It Here Is a Cathartic, Kinetic and Emotionally Gripping Audio Play

Review by Brooks Whitlock Chicago-based playwright Ike Holter is assuredly keyed into, like so much else in his captivating bibliography, the moods that defined the previous calendar year. Exhibit A: […]

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Stages, Theater

Review: Holter’s Lottery Day Tells a Colorful Story of What’s Right and What’s Wrong with Chicago

Lottery Day is a party with a guest list of nine. Mallory (a sizzling J. Nicole Brooks) has invited them to her back yard to celebrate, but no one knows what […]

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Stages, Theater

Review: At Steep Theatre, Red Rex Wrestles With Who Gets to Tell the Story

The Red Rex Theatre Co. rehearses a play about characters drawn from their own Rightlynd neighborhood in Ike Holter’s play at Steep Theatre. They hope this will be the play […]

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Stages, Theater

Ike Holter’s Rightlynd Is a Story of Chicago Politics: It’s the City We Love Despite Its Flaws

“Once you’ve come to be part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never […]

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