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"Honky" Has Good Fun with the Race Card by Jan Simpson

Honky, the provocatively named comedy now running at Urban Stages, kicks off with a not very funny incident: a black kid is killed for his sneakers and sales spike at the Nike-style company that makes them because the shooting makes white suburban teens regard the shoe as an authentic emblem of the black experience that so many of them want to imitate. So it surprises me as much as it may surprise you that I found…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:05AM on March 27, 2013

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