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Molly Wallace had to tame her natural inclination to be funny the last time she was on stage, in last year's Second Stage Players production of "The Laramie Project." The play, about the controversy surrounding the 1998 murder of gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo., wasn't the place for humor.

It's rare when an issue galvanizes an entire theater community. Seemed everywhere I went this week someone would ask, "What do you think of what's going on with 'Rent' and 'The Laramie Project'?" For those who have missed the news stories, editorials, columns, and letters to the editor, Green Valley High School is presenting edited versions of the ...

Parents at a Nevada high school are suing the school to stop productions of "The Laramie Project" and "Rent," the smash Broadway hit which had a standing ovation on its closing night, pictured above.

Some good news for Manhattan, a federal animal research program is moving to the "Little Apple" and it could likely bring more business to the area.

May 1999: Judy Shepard attends Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on hate crimes, along with Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and Sen.

A federal research lab that investigates animal diseases spread by insects, spiders and other bugs is moving to Kansas.

The hate crimes bill is named for Matthew Shepard, pictured here in an undated photo.

The law expands the federal definition of a hate crime to include the words "gender" and "gender identity," among other things.

Green River - The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has increased its big game disease surveillance in 2009.

NCIS ' Pauley Perrette and more of TV's biggest stars are banding together for a one-time performance of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later to benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation and stand up for gay rights.

Laramie, Wyoming-based Firehole Technologies , a developer of composite analysis and simulation software, announced today that it has acquired CompositePro , a software product used for composite design and analysis, from Arvada, Colorado-based Peak Composites .

A Salt Lake City girl, 15-year-old Dakota Chee, was killed in an accident eight miles west of Laramie, on I-80. Three other Chee family members were hospitalized at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie.

There's something heartwarming about Emerson's comment on aging. The author, Barry M. Andrews, of Emerson as Spiritual Guide says, "Emerson's words are provocative and revolutionary." His essential message is that "the religious sentiment is innate and intuitive in human experience.

"THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER": Two local theaters are staging today-only productions of the play "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later." It explores life in Laramie, Wyo., 10 years after Matthew Shepard, a gay man, was fatally beaten near Laramie.

Tectonic Theater Project instigated national soul-searching with "The Laramie Project," its play about the 1998 gay-bashing murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo.

Eleven years has passed since the death of Matthew Shepard, the young man who was beaten and left to die in Laramie, Wyo.

The creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project, which since 2000 has been one of the most performed plays in America, will premiere a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to the original piece.

The Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Company will stage a reading of "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later," an epilogue to the acclaimed play, at 8 p.m. Monday.

By Andrea Calcagno A October 12, 2009 A ASHLAND, Ore. - The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, along with more than 100 universities, regional theaters and high schools around the county performed the play 'The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later' Monday night.

The brutal murder of a gay man in 1998 serves as a rallying point for homosexual rights.