Annette O’Toole, Stephen Schnetzer, et. al. Set for The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later at Arena Stage

Annette O’Toole and Stephen Schnetzer will appear in the D.C. reading of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later at Arena Stage on October 12 at 8pm. Anita Maynard-Losh will direct the piece, an epilogue to the Tectonic Theatre Project’s play about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepherd, a young gay man who was living in rural Wyoming.

Tectonic director Moises Kaufman and his co-writers — Stephen Belber, Leigh Fondakowski, Andy Paris, and Greg Pierotti — returned to Laramie last fall to re-interview several townspeople who originally gave accounts about Shepard and his killers in 1998.

In addition to O’Toole and Schnetzer, the company will also feature Drew Eshelman, Tim Getman, Helen Hedman, Erika Rose, Michael Russotto, and Kim Schraf.

A pre-performance message will be broadcast live to all of the theaters that will be participating in the global readings of the epilogue on the 12th, including Arena Stage. This simulcast from the staged reading at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, hosted by Glenn Close, will feature a welcome from Kaufman, and Judy Shepard. Following the performance of the reading, Arena Stage will hold its own post show talk back with the D.C. cast, moderated by Arena Stage Associate Artistic Director David Dower.

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