Penn Station's Rise and Fall at Guild Hall Reading
An image of Penn Station before it was destroyed to build Madison Square Garden
Guild Hall’s JDTLab will present a free staged reading of “Air Rites,” a play by Richard Brockman, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The production, directed by Mirra Bank and with music by Heather Christian, tells the story of the dream, the realization, and the destruction of New York’s Pennsylvania Station, one of the country’s great public buildings. The story is told through the lives of the family that built it, the family that destroyed it, and the family of a boy whose passion for trains imagined it.
Dr. Brockman, a psychiatrist and playwright, and Ms. Bank, a filmmaker, share houses in East Hampton and New York City.