Wilson’s Seven Guitars Comes to New York!

Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, this Lincoln Center Theater revival of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars presents one of Wilson’s most lyrical and intimate works in a powerful new staging, as part of the company’s most thrilling season yet.

An Award-Winning Masterpiece!

The seventh play in Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle, Seven Guitars debuted in 1996 and went on to receive the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. It was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award for Best Play, and the Tony Award for Best Play. Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s long association with August Wilson’s American Century Cycle—including his Tony-winning revival of Jitney and Tony-nominated performance as Bynum Walker in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone—means this revival is nothing short of spectacular.

What’s The Story?

Seven Guitars focuses on the lives of seven African American characters grappling with life in 1948. Connected through the death of a friend, the play centres on the events leading up to that loss. As part of a series of plays that explores the lives of Black Americans living in Pittsburgh decade by decade, Seven Guitars focuses on the hope for more in inescapably bleak times.