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Full guide →When to go. Head straight out at curtain call. Two-show days are the worst bet at both performances — the cast rests through the matinee and is spent by the evening. A Sunday matinee is the best single bet, because it is a one-show day. In bad weather the barricades sometimes never go up at all.
Who comes out. Anywhere from nobody to most of the cast. Nobody can tell you in advance which three — not us, not the theatre. Treat any list that claims otherwise with suspicion.
What to bring. Tonight’s Playbill and a fine-tip Sharpie, held open to the page you want signed. Ask before you photograph anyone, and keep the pavement clear — it is a working door, not a red carpet.
Why “still confirming”. The theatre details above are solid. What we haven’t nailed down is whether this particular production does a stage door — that changes with the cast, and no source publishes it. We’d rather say so than guess.
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August Wilson's Seven Guitars is coming to Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, and if you know Wilson, you know to bring your whole heart. Part of his ten-play Century Cycle, this one lands in 1940s Pittsburgh, where blues guitarist Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton is chasing one more shot — at the woman he loves, at a record deal, at a life bigger than the Hill District will allow.
His friends gather, the stories pour out, and what starts as a backyard hang slowly reveals itself as something far weightier. Ruben Santiago-Hudson, a Wilson interpreter of the highest order, directs a cast that includes Chanté Adams, Russell Hornsby, Michael Potts, and John Douglas Thompson.
Previews begin in November 2026 ahead of a late-month opening. It's music, memory, and the ache of dreams deferred, all in one of the most welcoming rooms in town. Save us a seat.
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