7:30-9pm, $30, Times Square Arts Center, 300 W 43rd St, Suite #402, 212-586-7829, eventbrite.com /e/the-laramie-project-thursday-may-11th-730pm-tickets-33549021025. In 1998 in Laramie, Wyo., Matthew Shepard was savagely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die—all for being gay. “The Laramie Project” is a thought-provoking masterpiece that will stun and prompt those to think about humanity in its darkest form.