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The play first opened at The Ricketson Theatre by the Denver Center Theatre Company in February 2000.  The play was also performed in the Union Square Theater in New York City, and again in November 2002 performance in Laramie.  HBO subsequently made a movie based on the play.  Since then it has spread to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of high schools across the [[United States]].

The play first opened at The Ricketson Theatre by the Denver Center Theatre Company in February 2000.  The play was also performed in the Union Square Theater in New York City, and again in November 2002 performance in Laramie.  HBO subsequently made a movie based on the play.  Since then it has spread to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of high schools across the [[United States]].

This play distorts the facts and completely omits how "Shepard's killers, in their first interview since their convictions, tell '20/20's' Elizabeth Vargas that money and drugs motivated their actions that night, not hatred of gays."<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=277685&page=1 20/20 News Story on Matthew Sheppard]</ref>

*[http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=277685&page=1 20/20 News Story on Matthew Sheppard]