Based on the true story of Matthew Shepard, the young college student who was brutally beaten and killed over his sexual orientation in October 1998, this powerful staged reading on the 20th anniversary Shepard’s death is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

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"After Matthew’s murder in 1998, members of the Tectonic Theater Project in New York City traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, to interview residents about how the attack on Matt had affected the town. These transcripts were transformed into the play The Laramie Project, which tells the stories of real people who lived at the epicenter of one of the nation’s most heinous anti-gay hate crimes."