Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities

  When gay college student Matthew Shepard was found brutalized and tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming in 1998, his death made people across the country take a hard look within. Twenty-three years after its World Premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Laramie Project still resonates today. As America continues to grapple with hate crimes, we dive deep into a human story of the prejudice, hatred, conflicts and contradictions revealed by Matthew’s death. Patchworked together from hundreds…