A beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning play is coming to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in February.
The Arts Club Theatre Company is bringing Driving Miss Daisy to the Shadbolt stage as part of its Arts Club on Tour series.
Nicola Lipman appears as the Southern matriarch, and John Alexander Campbell is her chauffeur, in the story that follows a 25-year friendship between a woman and her driver.
It's directed by Mario Crudo and also stars Brian Linds.
"I am thrilled and honoured to have been asked to participate in this festive 50th season at the Arts Club by directing Driving Miss Daisy," Crudo said in a press release. "This show is brimming with heart."
Crudo is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and is currently the artistic director for Magnus Theatre in Thunder Bay, Ont.
The play - which became an Academy Award-winning film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman - was written by Alfred Uhry. Uhry began his career as a lyric writer, and Driving Miss Daisy was his first play. It first opened at Playwrights Horizons in New York in 1987 and then moved to the John Houseman Theatre, where it ran for three years and won the Pulitzer in 1988.
It's onstage at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts Feb. 3 and 4. Call 604-205-3000 or see tickets.shadboltcentre.com to purchase tickets.
It's also touring several other communities, with stops in North Vancouver, Maple Ridge, West Vancouver, Surrey, Mission, Coquitlam, Chilliwack, Nanaimo and Saltspring Island.
See www.artsclub.com for full details.
