'Kenrex' Off Broadway Review: Jack Holden Delivers Twangs 'n Chills to Play a Real All-American Monster

Jack Holden and Ed Stambollouian present a very British look at a very American criminal in their play "Kenrex," which opened Sunday at the Lucille Lortel Theatre after multiple runs in London. Holden plays a couple dozen (maybe more) characters in this one-man show, with musical accompaniment performed on stage by John Patrick Elliott. Holden twangs more with his tongue than Elliott does with his guitar. There's a whole lot of good ol' country affectations in this "true crime thriller" about Ken Rex McElroy, who terrorized the small town of Skidmore, Missouri, before its residents . . .