Lincoln Center Theater is continuing its commitment to August Wilson’s legacy with a new revival of Seven Guitars, directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
The production will be staged Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater during the 2026–2027 season.
Set in 1940s Pittsburgh, Seven Guitars follows blues musician Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton as he returns home determined to rebuild his life, pursue his music career, and win back the woman he loves. As his community gathers around him, the story unfolds into a deeply layered portrait of ambition, artistry, masculinity, and the cost of deferred dreams.
Santiago-Hudson, a longtime interpreter of Wilson’s work, brings extensive experience to the production, having both starred in and directed several of Wilson’s plays across stage and screen. His involvement continues a creative legacy that has helped shape modern productions of Wilson’s American Century Cycle.
The revival is part of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2026–2027 season, which also includes Broadway productions of Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men starring Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music starring Jasmine Amy Rogers, as well as Off-Broadway productions Born in the Dirt and Playing Burton, the return of The Whoopi Monologues, and a slate of composer series events featuring Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.