August Wilson's Seven Guitars
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
8:00 PM
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th Street
Scheduled
About This Event
August Wilson, described as "theater's poet of Black America," wrote the Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of plays that chronicle African-American experience; two works in the cycle, Fences and The Piano Lesson, won Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. August Wilson's Seven Guitars at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater presents one of Wilson's works in that lineage, continuing his examination of African-American life and heritage.
About Seven Guitars(play)
Seven Guitars is a 1995 play by American playwright August Wilson. It focuses on seven African-American characters in the year 1948. The play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters, showing events leading to the funeral in flashbacks. Seven Guitars represents the 1940s entry in Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, a decade-by-decade anthology of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the twentieth century; Wilson would revisit the stories of some of these characters in King Hedley II, set in the 1980s.
About the Artists
August Wilson's Seven Guitars
August Guitars are Hand Made by Custom Guitar Builder, David Anderson in Loveland, Colorado
August Wilson
August Wilson was an American playwright whose work mapped Black life in the 20th century through a ten-play sequence often known as the Pittsburgh Cycle. Two entries, *Fences* and *The Piano Lesson*, earned him Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, and his plays remain staples of major stages.