Here's the setup:  A dozen members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming at the turn of the millennium to research the murder of Matthew Shepard in October 1998.  Shepard, openly gay, had been robbed, beaten into a coma, tied to a fence and left for dead.  His two killers attempted to justify their actions by claiming Shepard made a pass at them, somehow driving them into a violent panic.  Tectonic used interviews and court transcripts to craft an electric theater piece.  Ten years later, Tectonic revisited Laramie for a second round of interviews, among them Shepard's murderers themselves.  This new piece - it would trivialize it to call it a sequel - debuted 10 months ago, with 150 simultaneous productions around the world.

Read my full review here.

The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

through Aug 15, 8 p.m. Thursday- Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, $10-$15
Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia
360.754.7711