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Photos by Craig Schwartz. Actor/writer and everything in between Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s ode to Miss Rachel, or Nanny as she was affectionately known, the woman who helped raised him in her rooming house is moving and heartwarming.
Feb 25, 2020 · Macy Gray, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Rosie Perez Photo: Bob Greene. George C. Wolfe’s Lackawanna Blues begins in a sterile, dreary 1980s hospital room, where an agonizing Ruben Jr. (Hill Harper)...
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.
Feb 25, 2019 · Photo by Benedict Evans. by Center Theatre Group. February 25, 2019. Share this. When Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues first premiered Off-Broadway in 2001 at The Public Theater, The New York Times lauded it as so humble and warm that the honesty of its spirit is never in question.
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 Club production at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. It proves to be a winsome performer’s master class in storytelling, despite a few flat notes.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson took a moment to share a story for American Masters' #InspiringWomanPBS campaign. Learn about the woman behind Lackawanna Blues' Nanny.
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Feb 8, 2005 · Lackawanna Blues by Original Soundtrack released in 2005. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
