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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 American 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
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...
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“Lackawanna Blues,” Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s theatrical memoir about being raised by a big-hearted proprietor of a boardinghouse for castaways and strays in an industrial upstate New York ...
Mar 15, 2019 · “Lackawanna Blues” runs one hour and 20 minutes with no intermission. Ticket Prices: $30 - $109 (Ticket prices are subject to change.) Tickets are available www.CenterTheatreGroup.org. or calling Center Theatre Group Audience Services at 213.628.2772. Group Sales: 213.972.7231. The Music Center, 135 N. Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A. 90012.
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Oct 21, 2021 · Directed by George C. Wolfe, with a screenplay by Santiago-Hudson himself, the movie stars S. Epatha Merkeson as Rachel Crosby, whom everybody called Nanny, an extraordinary woman who largely raised Ruben, and was at the center of the Black community in Lackawanna, a steel town in Upstate New York that was thriving in 1956, when Ruben was born.