Driving Miss Daisy is a lovely play. And it’s a magnificent family album. Look at the cover: Simple and understated, Uhry’s award-winning script was inspired by his own car-wrecking 72-year old grandmother for whom the family hired a chauffeur. It is a play about an uneasy friendship that builds over 25 years. Even more, Driving […]
Archives for October 3, 2014
Trust comes easy for Venus in Fur stars Elan Zafir and Kathryn Tkel
“In this play, given the subject matter, you need to be comfortable with your partner, and know they have your back, and Katie is like my partner in crime.” Elan Zafir Back when they were classmates at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting, Elan Zafir and Kathryn Tkel were friends and locker-neighbors and […]
You Can’t Take It With You at Longacre Theatre
In ample time for Thanksgiving, Jeffrey Richards and a slew of associates (“by special arrangement with the Roundabout Theatre Company”) has delivered to the Longacre Theatre on Broadway a true holiday feast. In three acts, with two intermissions and a company of over twenty actors, it makes the new 90 minute one acters look like […]