No Curtain Call

It was closing night, and Robert W. Hatch was pleased. The play he had produced at Brevard Community College had gone off without a hitch, and as the college's only theater professor, he was ready to begin his next drama. Then college officials supplied the shocking denouement: The play would be his final act.

Now Mr. Hatch is charging that they didn't renew his contract because he is gay and because the play, The Laramie Project, is about what happened in Laramie, Wyo., after Matthew

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