Established in 1994, Center Stage Community Theatre is dedicated to producing high quality community theatre. We currently present four shows per year. We have a cozy 50-seat venue with its own sound and light booth, costume room, two dressing rooms, a green room, three restrooms, a large kitchen, platform seating and a stage. The building is fully heated, air conditioned and is handicap accessible. Over the years, we have grown from a small local theatre to a regional theatre that attracts about half of our audiences from outside Boone County. Many of our performers and production personnel come from other surrounding cities and counties

In October 1998 in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie,  Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old student at the University of  Wyoming, was tied to a fence post, severely beaten, robbed, , tortured  and left, alone, to die. His body -- battered, bloody, barely clinging  to life -- was discovered eighteen hours later. He was rushed to the  hospital and put on life support. He died five days later. The reason  for this brutal crime? Matthew Shepard was gay. The hate crime attracted vast attention worldwide, bringing sexual  discrimination and violence to the forefront of public discourse. The  Tectonic Theater Project, led by their founder Moisés Kaufman, traveled  to Laramie in the aftermath of the murder with the intent of creating a  theatrical portrait of a town coming to grips with horrible, hate-fueled  violence. Over the course of a year and a half, the group interviewed  over 200 subjects, some directly related to the case and some regular  citizens of Laramie. Out of these interviews, journal entries, and found  texts, The Laramie Project was born. Hailed as one of the most  captivating and encompassing pieces of contemporary theatre, the play  shocks, challenges, and moves all who watch it as it reveals the lowest  depths of hatred and greatest heights of compassion that lies within all  human beings in any seemingly average community.

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