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Theater 2015-16: Raven expands to five plays, kicks off season with three Midwest premieres

Sep 17, 2015 – 4:10 pm
Life's surreal on death row for the Scottsboro Boys; whose bleak farce of incarceration for a crime they didn't commit plays out at Raven.

14th in a series of season previews: Opening with a run of Midwest premieres, Raven Theatre expands from four plays to five this season to capitalize on the opportunity offered by its dual performing spaces. And first up is a Mark Stein’s searing “entertainment” with the long, ironically evocative title of “Direct from Death Row: The Scottsboro Boys (An Evening of Vaudeville and Sorrow).”