Driving Miss Daisy

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Seeing this intimate and powerful play live in a small theater makes the Walnut's revival worthwhile.

Driving Miss Daisy

Mark Garvin

Alfred Uhry’s popular 1987 drama won the Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best off-Broadway Play, and the 1989 film won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Seeing this intimate and powerful play live in a small theater makes the Walnut’s revival worthwhile, especially since it stars local legend Johnnie Hobbs Jr. as Hoke Colburn, the black chauffeur hired to drive elderly Jewish matron Daisy (Wendy Scharfman) around racist and anti-Semitic post-World War II Atlanta. Catch it while you can; after its short Philly run, Driving Miss Daisy leaves for the Walnut’s fourth annual national tour. 

Through Feb. 2, $30-$40, Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., 215-574-3550, walnutstreettheatre.org.

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