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Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s.
In the 1950s and '60s, young Ruben Santiago Jr. (Marcus Franklin) lives in a lively boardinghouse in the blue-collar town of Lackawanna, New York, with his f...
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Lackawanna Blues is a 2005 biographical drama television film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. It aired on HBO on February 12, 2005. It is based on the play of the same name by Santiago-Hudson.
YearAwardCategoryNominee (s)2005Outstanding Achievement in Movie of the ...John Papsidera and Wendy O'Brien20052005Online Film & Television Association ...Best Motion Picture Made for TelevisionBest Motion Picture Made for Television2005Online Film & Television Association ...Best Actor in a Motion Picture or ...- Biographical Drama
Oct 7, 2021 · That woman is Nanny, the beating heart of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s tender and vibrant autobiographical one-man show, “Lackawanna Blues,” which opened on Thursday night in a Manhattan Theater ...
Feb 4, 2021 · Lackawanna Blues is a drama television film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. It is based on the play of the same name by Santiago-Hudson. Wolfe had commissioned...
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Lackawanna Blues is a 2005 drama film directed by George C. Wolfe and starring Yasiin Bey, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jimmy Smits and others. It follows the life of a young boy growing up in a boardinghouse in Lackawanna, New York, in the 1950s and '60s.
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A critically acclaimed show about the woman who raised him in a 1950s boarding house outside Buffalo. Santiago-Hudson plays more than 20 characters and sings the blues in this uplifting and inspiring tribute to his Nanny.