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LACKAWANNA BLUES is actor, playwright, and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s ode to his 1950s childhood home: Lackawanna, New York. Santiago-Hudson’s autobiographical play focuses on the woman who raised him, Rachel “Nanny” Crosby, and the eccentric community of lost souls and abandoned lovers she nurtured. Inspired by African griot
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- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
- Lackawanna Blues
- 1636700020, 9781636700021
Blues Festival Guide Magazine 2022 Digital Edition
Mar 20, 2019 · READ ON APP. "Lackawanna Blues" is a one-man musical reflection written, directed and performed by the multi-talented Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Originally produced in 2001 by the Joseph Papp Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival, is revived at the Mark Taper Forum. The production takes place during the 1950s in Santiago-Hudson's ...
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.
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...
- 95 min
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- Dedicated To The Culture
for the HBO adaptation of Lackawanna Blues and has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the NAACP. LACKAWANNA, NEW YORK Lackawanna is a small city (pop. approximately 18,000) along Lake Erie, just outside Buffalo. Named after the Lackawanna Steel Company, it was a prosperous mill town when Ruben Santiago-Hudson was growing up there and
