Chicago's Curie High School's Advance Drama class will stage The Laramie Project Thursday, Feb. 2, 6 p.m. and Saturday, Feb 4, 1 p.m., $5, 4959 S. Archer Ave.
Meanwhile Redtwist Theatre announces the Chicago premiere production of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Moisés Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti. It opens Sunday, March 4, at 3 p.m.
Redtwist also announces staged-readings of The Laramie Project (the original show) by Moisés Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater Company, directed by Greg Kolack. Staged readings begin Friday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m., $15
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later to benefit The Matthew Shepard Foundation, with the performance introduced by special guest, Judy Shepard. Event begins at 6:30pm on Saturday, March 10, $100.
On Oct. 6, 1998, a gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, left the Fireside Bar in Laramie, Wyoming, with Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. The following day he was discovered at the edge of town. He was tied to a fence, brutally beaten, and close to death.
By the following day, Matthew's attack and the town of Laramie had become the focus of an international news story. On October 12, 1998, Matthew Shepard died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
On Nov. 14, 1998, the members of Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, and conducted interviews with the people of the town. During the next year, Tectonic would return to Laramie several times and conduct over two hundred interviews. The play that resulted is edited from those interviews, as well as from journal entries by members of the company and other found texts.
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