It’s been more than a decade since he last played the part. But esteemed local actor and award-winner, Johnnie Hobbs Jr., is reprising, and revising, his role of the African American driver named Hoke ...

Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Driving Miss Daisy” has been charming audiences since its off-Broadway debut in 1987. Set in Atlanta, and spanning between 1948 and 1973 charts the unlikely ...

Miss Daisy (Patty Tuel Bailey) and Hoke Colburn (Alex Morris) enjoying each other's company. Credit: Photo by Miranda Zaebst. With standout performances and earnest storytelling, the story of the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (Ark-La-Tex Weekend) - The comedy, Driving Miss Daisy presents a hopeful outlook on race relations through the interactions between Miss Daisy, an elderly Jewish woman, and her new ...

Invite a friend, share the journey. A warm-hearted, humorous, and affecting study of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety white Southern lady, and a proud, soft-spoken black man. A ...

At a distance, this threatened to be too easy a mark, too much of a sentimental sure thing for such theater legends. Surely, one might be forgiven for thinking Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones ...

LANCASTER, Pa. — The Pulitzer Prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy begins in 1948 Atlanta when Daisy Werthan, a proud independent Jewish widow crashes her car and is forced to hire a chauffeur.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Driving Miss Daisy is about the transformative power of friendship. Miss Daisy is an elderly Jewish widow who is struggling to come to terms with her diminishing ...

Although the Fulton Theatre's debut for its 2025-26 season will have a shorter run than usual, it packs a punch with its caliber of performers and its messaging. "Driving Miss Daisy," a play by Alfred ...

Forever and a day, this movie will be the poster child for Best Picture Oscar winners who became more famous for all the features it beat out rather than any of its artistic merits. That “honor” goes ...

I did not see the off-Broadway run of Driving Miss Daisy in 1987 in which Morgan Freeman originated the role of Hoke Coleburn. I did see the 1989 film, where he was longtime chauffeur to Jessica Tandy ...