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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 | 2022 Tony Award Nominee. Ruben Santiago-Hudson's solo play celebrates the strong, big-hearted woman who raised him: Miss Rachel.
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Feb 25, 2020 · George C. Wolfe’s Lackawanna Blues begins in a sterile, dreary 1980s hospital room, where an agonizing Ruben Jr. (Hill Harper) does his damnedest to bring his graying Nanny (S. Epatha Merkerson...
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. Wolfe had commissioned the stage version.
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 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.
Jun 6, 2022 · VIDEO: Tony Nominee Ruben Santiago-Hudson Opens Up About Making History with LACKAWANNA BLUES . The 75th Annual Tony Awards will take place on Sunday, June 12, 2022.
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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 father (Jimmy Smits) after his...
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