On the Radar: The Laramie Project at American Stage

Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview up-and-coming arts events to mark your calendar for. Next Monday, see The Laramie Project onstage, which explores the long-term effects of Matthew Shepard's murder (the result of a brutal, homophobic hate crime) on his hometown of Laramie via in-depth interviews with his mother, friends, and, most chillingly, his murderer, Aaron McKinney – the results of which eventually became an HBO special and play.

Tonight’s performers take the stage just once for The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, which returns to Laramie to find out if anything has changed – at home and around the country — and includes