Article: BTW crafts a moving 'Laramie Project'.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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The Boston Herald
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October 24, 2001
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"The Laramie Project," presented by Boston Theatre Works, at the Tremont Theatre, 276 Tremont St., Boston, through Nov. 11.

The sound of nearly 200 voices can create both an overwhelming din and a beautiful and complex symphony. The Boston Theatre Works' moving production of "The Laramie Project" celebrates both ends of the spectrum and all the chord changes in between.

"The Laramie Project" is as unlikely a theater piece as can be imagined. After the brutal beating death of a young gay man named Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo., in 1998, writer and director Moises Kaufman ("Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde") and members of his New ...

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