BUILDING by Colin Quinn and Vincent Piazza

Join us on July 7 & 8, 2026 for BUILDING, an immersive theatrical experience created by Colin Quinn, Vincent Piazza, and John Fitzgerald with an original score by composer Oliver Mayo.

Performances

Tuesday, July 7
8 PM (Doors at 7:30)
10 PM (Doors at 9:30)

Wednesday, July 8
8 PM (Doors at 7:30)
10 PM (Doors at 9:30)

Set against the 60th anniversary of the breaking ground of the World Trade Center, BUILDING transforms Pioneer Works’ Main Hall into an experiential portrait of 1970s New York through live performance, architectural environments, projection. Part theater, part installation, and social landscape, BUILDING presents a series of interconnected stories and monologues performed by an ensemble cast including Vincent Piazza, Chris Distefano, Julia Randall, Kathrine Narducci, and Florencia Lozano, inspired by the labor, humor, tensions, and ambitions surrounding one of the city’s most consequential civic projects. Audiences are invited to move through a living environment populated by crane operators, office managers, food vendors, security guards, developers, and other workers whose lives became intertwined with the rise of the Twin Towers.

Combining archival material, spatial audio, live environmental effects, and cinematic storytelling, BUILDING operates simultaneously as theater, installation, and social landscape. Rather than reconstructing the World Trade Center itself, the work considers the labor, contradictions, aspirations, and emotional residue embedded within its creation.