The Laramie Project Opens This Friday at Avenue Arts Marketplace & Theatre Located at 324 Cleveland Ave NW Canton Ohio 44702 In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard.THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. Shows: July 13th-21st Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm Sunday, July 15th at 2pm Directed by: Jared Sparks Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Jake Sustersic Cast: Brad Vincent Brett Voina Cassie Brode Catherine Csanyi Channon Booth Manuel Halkias Stephen Ostertag Tara Corkery Tickets: $15 Can be purchased at https://squareup.com/store/avenue/ <https://squareup.com/store/avenue/>