The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by Beverly Brumm

The story of the death is well known. Matthew Shepard, 21, was a slight, gay college student in 1998 when he was waylaid at a Laramie WY, bar, driven out of town, robbed, beaten and left to die. Moises Kaufman's play traces the efforts of a troupe of NY actors from the Tectonic Theatre Project to make sense of the tragedy. They traveled to Laramie six times, interviewing 200 people, in an attempt to understand the impact of this shocking event.

"The Laramie Project" shows them asking questions, interviewing the local people, learning their way around Laramie. Characters reveal themselves gradually; details of the crime are unraveled; the implications, for Laramie and for the nation, remain a question mark at play's end.