Honky is a play about relationships: about the relationships between five people, and about the relationships between who designs, buys, wears, covets, sells, and markets basketball shoes.
But hovering over—or rather, sitting squarely on top of—all of these relationships, is the issue of race.
It’s the kind of show that provokes wild, and/or uncomfortable, and/or silent laughter, at different times, from different people, for different reasons.
And while it doesn’t shy away from a difficult subject, Honky is hysterical, insightful, dramatic, and fun.
Listen to this episode of GSAS! to hear playwright Greg Kalleres discuss quiet audiences, brave actors, and advertising.
“You may fail, but you’ve certainly got the right to try.”
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For this 50th podcast of Go See a Show!, I present to you an episode recorded half a year ago, but that might be one of the most interesting interviews I’ve done.
A bit of a different podcast this time out: in this episode, GSAS! interviews artists from seven of the thirty — yes, 30 — plays that are part of this year’s 
I can completely identify with Matt Graham on at least one point: real men do indeed love cats (big shout-out to my man Compay).
The theatre is “a place for seeing;” a place where we can ask the big difficult questions about what it means to be a human being in the world we’ve collectively made.
