Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones To Take the Wheel in Driving Miss Daisy

Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave will star in the first Broadway mounting of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy. The limited engagement will begin performances on October 7 ahead of an opening night of October 25 at the Golden Theatre. David Esbjornson (The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?) will direct, with additional casting to be announced at a later date.

Jones last appeared on Broadway in the 2008 revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He received a Tony Award nomination for his turn in On Golden Pond and has won the award twice for the original productions of Fences and The Great White Hope. His other Broadway credits include Othello, Of Mice and Men and The Iceman Cometh. Jones has appeared in numerous films including Clear and Present Danger, Field of Dreams and The Man, and has provided his signature voice to the original Star Wars trilogy and The Lion King.

Redgrave last performed on Broadway in the one-woman show The Year of Magical Thinking and receieved a 2003 Tony Award for her turn in Long Day's Journey Into Night. She has also appeared on Broadway in Orpheus Descending and The Lady From the Sea. Her many film credits include an Oscar-winning performance in Julia, Blow Up, Howards End,Atonement and the current Letters from Juliet.

Driving Miss Daisy follows the relationship between an elderly, widowed Southern Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur. The play premiered off-Broadway on April 15, 1987, starring Dana Ivey and Morgan Freeman and ran for 1,195 performances before closing in 1990. It was adapted into a 1989 film starring Jessica Tandy and Freeman, which earned four Academy Awards including Best Picture.