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A Theatre Pioneer Says Goodbye by Reinventing His First Show - Off-Off Broadway stalwart Ping Chong reflects on 50 years of creation and change by Diep Tran

Off-Off Broadway stalwart Ping Chong reflects on 50 years of creation and change --- In 1972, when Ping Chong was 26, he made his first independent theatre piece: Lazarus. Performed in a Tribeca loft that belonged to Meredith Monk, it cost $100 to mount. There was no set, no one was paid, and Chong borrowed a slide projector from a friend. Although it was a low-budget affair, Chong's urban reimagining of the biblica…

SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AM on September 29, 2022

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