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VSA arts commissioned Ping Chong & Company to create Inside/Out…voices from the disability community, which premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in June 2008. Praised by the Washington Post as "compelling...riveting...consistently eye-opening," this production explores first-hand experiences of the disability community through personal narratives. Click here to go to audio clips from the cast.

Inside/Out to make NYC premiere in March
Inside/Out is reality theater, weaving the cast members' individual stories with historical events. It will open in New York City in March 2009 with the original cast. Don't miss one of this season's freshest productions, with an authentic—and sometimes irreverent—take on disability. This production is fully accessible to all audiences.

Friday, March 20, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $25

TheTimesCenter Stage
242 West 41st Street
New York, New York

To purchase tickets, visit www.Ticketweb.com or call 1-866-468-7619.

Audio Clips of the Cast

Click on the small arrow at the bottom left of each photo to hear the clip.

These oral history interviews were recorded as part of the StoryCorps VSA arts Initiative. Such interviews are property of and provided courtesy of StoryCorps (www.storycorps.net), a nationwide initiative of Sound Portraits Productions to record and collect oral history interviews. StoryCorps is a registered trademark of Sound Portraits Productions. Excerpts were selected and produced by VSA arts.

About Ping Chong & Company

Ping Chong & Company was founded in 1975 to create and tour innovative works of theater and art that explore the intersection of race, history, culture, and technology in the modern world. The New York based not-for-profit company has produced more than 70 works by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and his collaborators, toured widely in the United States and throughout the world, and received numerous honors and awards. Inside/Out is part of an ongoing series of community-specific, interview-based theater works known as the Undesirable Elements series. Undesirable Elements examines issues of race, class, culture, and identity in the lives of individuals. Since 1992 Ping Chong & Company has made over 40 productions in the series, in communities around the United States and abroad. For more information about Ping Chong & Company and the Undesirable Elements series, please visit www.pingchong.org and www.undesirableelements.org.