“When Driving Miss Motherf—-ing Daisy won Best Picture, that hurt,” director Spike Lee told New York Magazine in 2008. “[But] no one’s talking about Driving Miss Daisy now.” The filmmaker is hardly ...

Alfred Uhry’s “Driving Miss Daisy,” winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for drama, is a small wonder of a memory play. Spanning 25 years in the lives of its three characters, the nostalgic and observant ...

“Driving Miss Daisy” makes the perfect opportunity for those who haven’t seen a Repertory Theater of Iowa (RTI) production to do so. Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer-winning play and Oscar-winning film version ...

Old pros including Debra Jo Rupp vitalize a beloved play beyond being a mere nostalgia trip.

In 1989, a film became a huge hit and was recognized as the best film of the year. Since then, the movie Driving Miss Daisy's legacy has been widely rewritten as it is now mostly remembered as ...

During the 1990 Oscars broadcast, while presenting the clip for Best Picture nominee Dead Poets Society, a clearly terrified Kim Basinger took a moment to chastise the Academy for snubbing Spike Lee’s ...

Johnnie Hobbs Jr. and Wendy Scharfman in "Driving Miss Daisy" at Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin) The lighter-hearted “Driving Miss Daisy” that opened ...

There’s a deep sense of character and intimacy in Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Driving Miss Daisy,” which was inspired by the playwright’s own grandmother and her chauffeur. Setting the ...

You’re probably familiar with Driving Miss Daisy – if for nothing else, the 1989 movie starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. It won the Oscar in 1990 for Best Adapted Screenplay, having been ...

Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones could do this show buried up to their necks in a pit and still break your heart. As Redgrave works her mastery over Daisy’s body language, that straight spine ...

There’s a tendency to dismiss “Driving Miss Daisy” as too simplistic. Cynics may scoff: So two people from different ethnic and socio-economic classes become unlikely friends … is the world going to ...