Articles tagged with: William Inge
Theater 2015-16: Raven expands to five plays, kicks off season with three Midwest premieres
![Theater 2015-16: Raven expands to five plays, kicks off season with three Midwest premieres 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.](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Lifes-surreal-on-death-row-for-the-Scottsboro-Boys-whose-bleak-farce-of-incarceration-for-a-crime-they-didnt-commit-plays-out-at-Raven.-125x125.jpg)
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).”
Role Playing: City boy Michael Stegall ropes wild cowboy in Raven Theatre’s ‘Bus Stop’
![Role Playing: City boy Michael Stegall ropes wild cowboy in Raven Theatre’s ‘Bus Stop’ Actor Michael Stegall portrait](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Michael-Stegall-Feature-Image-Bus-Stop-125x125.jpg)
Interview: Michael Stegall, who looks and sounds every inch a ropin’ cowboy in the Raven Theatre production of William Inge’s “Bus Stop,” grew up in the West. No surprise there. But wait a minute. Not that West. The 6-foot-3, 23-year-old actor hails from Palm Springs, CA, where the buffalo do not roam.
Motley travelers looking to get their tickets punched at Raven’s snowbound ‘Bus Stop’
![Motley travelers looking to get their tickets punched at Raven’s snowbound ‘Bus Stop’ Michael Stegall and Jen Short in Raven's Bus Stop credit Dean LaPrairie](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bus-Stop-featured-Michael-Stegall-Jen-Short-credit-Dean-LaPrairie-125x125.jpg)
Engagingly off-kilter charms. 3 stars
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