Overview
Directed by Stephen McKinley Henderson. Scroll down for full cast list.
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Seven Guitars is set in 1948. A Blues singer just released from prison is asked to sign a record deal after a song he recorded months before becomes an unexpected hit. He is ready to right the past year’s wrongs and return to Chicago with a new understanding of what’s important in his life. Unfortunately his means of righting wrongs are inherently flawed.
CAST LIST:
LOUISE……………..Brenda Pressley
CANEWELL………….Ruben Santiago-Hudson
RED CARTER………..Stephen McKinley Henderson
VERA………………..Aunjanue Ellis
HEDLEY……………..Lou Ferguson
FLOYD BARTON…….Jerome Preston Bates
RUBY……………….Cassandra Freeman
Thanks to our philanthropic partners The Ford Foundation whose mission is to support visionary leaders and organizations on the front lines of social change worldwide and The Jerome Robbins Foundation.
Special permission for this project is provided by the Estate of August Wilson. For more information, please visit www.samuelfrench.com