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Walter’s World: Honky Explores Exploitation And Racism

By Walter Rutledge

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A young black man is killed over a pair of expensive sneakers and his attacker, another teenager recites the sneaker commercial’s slogan as he commits the crime. This sounds like something out of the current news headline, but it is really the opening scene from Honky, a new play presented at Urban Stages, 259 west 30TH Street. Continue reading

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Harlem Friendship Leads Harrelson Off Broadway

The NYTimes reports that in the summer of 1983, when an acting career was still just a dream, Woody Harrelson worked construction in Houston and met a play’s worth of colorful characters, including an aspiring writer from Harlem named Frankie Hyman (pictured above with Woody Harrelson) who became his best buddy on the scaffolding. Continue reading