Jenny After a long and VERY successful run of the show, I’ve had time to realize what I’ll miss most about running The Laramie Project. This experience for me has been unique. I’ve never had to sit through a full show in the dark, on a headset, listening to actors in one ear and to […]
Westboro Baptist Church
Guest Blogger Dan Ellison — TLP, censorship, & discrimination Part 1
A big DukeinLaramie welcome to Dan Ellison (Duke ’77), attorney-at-law, Instructor in Theater Studies, and faculty advisor for Hoof ‘n Horn. Dan has offered his legal expertise to discuss issues of censorship surrounding The Laramie Project. If you all are interested in finding out more about the legal terrain of creating, producing, and consuming performing […]
Angel Action in Tuscon
There are myriad ways in which The Laramie Project has become part of our national lexicon, but I’ll begin our semester’s discussion with a very recent example. The mass shooting in Tuscon on January 8, 2011 claimed the lives of six and wounded thirteen others, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D, AZ District 8). In the […]