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    August Wilson's Seven Guitars

    Illustration for August Wilson's Seven Guitars

    Tuesday, December 29, 2026

    7:00 PM

    Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

    Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th Street

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    August Wilson's Seven Guitars is staged at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The production highlights the instruments credited as August Guitars, handmade by custom builder David Anderson in Loveland, Colorado, linking the play's musical dimension to a particular luthier's craft.

    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 Artist

    August Wilson's Seven Guitars

    August Guitars are Hand Made by Custom Guitar Builder, David Anderson in Loveland, Colorado