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The former assistant principal of a Colorado high school claims he was fired after offering "a Christian perspective" on a school play about the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student.
Football players at the University of Mississippi heckled cast members during a production of The Laramie Project, prompting university officials to apologize on Thursday.
A planned mass protest of a staging of the Matthew Shepard play The Laramie Project in the United Kingdom fell flat over the weekend when only one person turned up to demonstrate.
After students in the audience hurled sexist and homophobic slurs at the student actors in an Ole Miss production of The Laramie Project, cast members from the new Broadway show Big Fish offered words of support.
Matthew's mother, Judy Shepard, and the theater artists behind The Laramie Project will be among Katie Couric's guests Tuesday.
The Laramie Project and its sequel, both dealing with the impact of Matthew Shepard's murder, get a new staging in Brooklyn, opening tonight.
In 1998 in rural Wyoming, Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence by two local men, brutally beaten, and left to die. Ten years after Shepard's murder, the company behind The Laramie Project returned to Laramie to find out, in the words of creator Moises Kaufman, "what had or had not changed" about the town since the hate crime. The result is Laramie: 10 Years Later.
Billy Porter, Adam Rippon, and Asia Kate Dillon are some of the stars taking part in a history-making live reading of The Laramie Project.
Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper will have to find another production of The Laramie Project to picket. U.K. officials say their extremist hate is not welcome.
