'The Laramie Project' is the third installment in Ford's Theatre's Lincoln Legacy series
No one plays Matthew Shepard in "The Laramie Project." The piece of documentary theater was inspired by Shepard's murder: The gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student was brutally beaten and left to die on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyo., 15 years ago. The play that Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project wrote the year after the murder is made up of courtroom testimony, news reports and inte…