The Famous Names of Laramie

Following the 1998 hate-crime murder of Matthew Shepard near Laramie, Wyoming, playwright Moisés Kaufman traveled to Laramie with members of the Tectonic Theater Project to conduct interviews with the town’s inhabitants which they then turned into one of the most frequently staged plays in America, The Laramie Project. The moving show premiered in February 2000, and later Kaufman produced a film of the same name. Tonight, Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project bring the work, as well as its 2008 epilogue, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a historic for two week run. Here, we look back at some of the more noteworthy names associated with the show in the last decade.

Andrew Garfield
Spider Man, The Social Network

Stockard Channing
Grease, The West Wing

Terry Kinney
Oz, The Firm

Judith Light
Host of Broadway Bares 22, Who’s the Boss

Christina Ricci
Sleepy Hollow, Black Snake Moan

Clea DuVall
Argo, Girl, Interrupted

Cyndi Lauper
Grammy and Emmy winner, True Colors Tour

Camryn Manheim
The Practice

Peter Fonda
Easy Rider, 3:10 to Yuma

Peter Hermann
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Stephanie March
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Joshua Jackson
Dawson’s Creek, Fringe

Laura Linney
The Big C, The Truman Show

Mary Beth Peil
The Good Wife, Dawson’s Creek

Van Hansis
As the World Turns

The Laramie Project Cycle at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave (btwn St. Felix St/Ashland Pl), Tues–Fris at 7:30pm and Sats–Suns at 2:30pm Feb 12–24; $20–$200. Visit bam.org for more info.