In the aftermath of the brutal murder of a gay college student in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998, a NYC theater company asked, “What can we as theater artists do as a response?” Visiting Laramie numerous times, they recorded the experiences of a cross-section of the community—bartenders, taxi drivers, professors, students, doctors, police, ultimately the murderers themselves—from which they created a unique and eternally relevant play: a kaleidoscopic portrait of our nation’s values, prejudices, and aspirations.