Seven Guitars
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 24, 2006
Closed Oct 7, 2006
Opened Aug 24, 2006
Closed Oct 7, 2006
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Signature Theatre Company continues its 15th Anniversary Celebration with The August Wilson Series, the first New York exploration of the late playwright's significant body of work. The three-play Wilson tribute opens with Seven Guitars, directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
Hope and heartbreak abound in Pittsburgh's Hill District as seven people share frustration, joy and loss in 1948. Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, an aspiring blues musician, returns home to seek his fortune and reclaim his woman; a sick old man longs for an heir to carry on his name; and three single women cope with betrayal and lost dreams. Like seven musical instruments, each one strikes a singular note in a discordant world.
There is no performances on Monday, September 4 at 8 PM.
Talk Backs are scheduled for Tuesdays August 29 and September 12 immediately following the 7 PM performance.
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Music meant the world to the late August Wilson. And the more you study his plays -- as you can watching Ruben Santiago-Hudson's vital revival of Wilson's 1996 Broadway play Seven Guitars at the Signature Theater -- the more you realize something specific about the playwright's music preferences. He resonated like a guitar string to the blues. It's as if the 10-work cycle to which Seven Guitars belongs -- in which he sought a universal depiction of the African-American experience through intense concentration on Pittsburgh's Hill District -- was the result of both a throbbing need to get to the roots of the blues and a need to probe the tragic depths of heart, soul, and guts from which the [...]