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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the Civil Rights Movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two is informed ...
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 ...
Orlando Museum of Art has partnered with Black Theater Girl Magic for its Onija exhibit. Read full article: ‘I’m going to take this year and make something of it’: The rise of a new Orlando ...
Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning show is hitting the stage at the Walnut Street Theatre this month. 'Driving Miss Daisy' first hit the scene when it premiered off-Broadway in 1987, and the tale of ...
Starting October 16th, Dallas Theater Center hosts Pulitzer-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. The play, made ever more famous by its subsequent film starring Jessica ...
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 ...
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 ...