Driving Miss Daisy

Alfred Uhry’s 1987 play seems to have been revived primarily as a showcase for its star actors: Vanessa Redgrave as Daisy, a tetchy old Southern Jewish woman, and James Earl Jones as Hoke, her African-American chauffeur. Daisy is a pleasing watercolor sketch of friendship, but as staged amorphously by David Esbjornson, the piece seems low on gas.—Adam Feldman