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Driving Miss Daisy
Season 42
Episode 18
Tony Award winners Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, which was a hit on Broadway in 2010. The play is a timeless, searing, funny, and ultimately hopeful meditation on race relations in America, told through the complex relationship between a Jewish widow and an African American man who works has her chauffeur.
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Experience David Strathairn as reluctant Holocaust witness, Jan Karski.
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Glimpse behind the curtain at Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert.
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Celebrate with a performance of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” led by Jaap van Zweden.
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Explore Shakespeare’s love life in this ballet featuring music by Rhiannon Giddens.
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Watch an adaption of the hit film where suspicion comes to a head at a Catholic school.