"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 cit…
The solo play about Santiago-Hudson's childhood features music performed by Grammy winner Chris Thomas King.
The production is currently in previews at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Halle Berry, Jeffrey Wright, Liev Schreiber and Rosie Perez will star in the HBO screen adaptation of Lackawanna Blues with the playwright-actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Lackawanna, N.Y., has been in the news a lot lately because an alleged terrorist cell was found there. But the small city also pops up in a more creative sense, in the play ''Lackawanna Blue…