August Wilson's Seven Guitars
Wednesday, December 30, 2026
2:00 PM
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th Street
Scheduled
About This Event
A production of August Wilson's Seven Guitars is staged at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The production uses guitars handmade by custom builder David Anderson of Loveland, Colorado, a detail that foregrounds instrument construction in the staging. This pairing highlights attention to the play's sonic character.
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