Synopsis

Alfred Uhry’s celebrated play offers a sharp, humorous, and ultimately optimistic exploration of race in America, unfolding through the intricate bond between two figures deeply familiar to popular culture. Daisy Werthan (Angela Lansbury) is a widowed Jewish woman of seventy-two, residing in mid-twentieth-century Atlanta, while Hoke Colburn (James Earl Jones) is the African American man who serves as her chauffeur.