APT Portable Prologues
Enhance your experience at American Players Theatre in Spring Green by listening to these 15 minute interviews before you see each play. Orange Schroeder talks to the directors and actors to bring you background information that will make you appreciate each APT performance even more!
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Episodes
Wednesday Oct 08, 2025
Wednesday Oct 08, 2025
Director John Taylor Phillips and actors Laura Rook and Marcus Truschinski discuss the 2025 production of The 39 Steps, adapted by Patrick Barlow, at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.
Friday Aug 15, 2025
Friday Aug 15, 2025
We go "all in with sheep" for this episode, as Buzz Kemper sits in for Orange Schroeder, talking with Director Shana Cooper and Associate Director Jim Ridge about APT's 2025 production of The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare.
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Actors Joshua Castille and Lyndsay Welliver discuss the 2025 production of Tribes by Nina Rain at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Actors Sam Luis Masaro, Melisa Pereyra and Ron Román-Meléndez discuss the 2025 production of Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.
Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Director Jackson Gay and actors Triney Sandoval, Marcus Truschinski and La Shawn Banks discuss the 2025 production of ‘ART’ by Yasmina Reza at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.
Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Director David Daniel and actors Joshua Castille, Casey Hoekstra, and Samantha Newcomb discuss the 2025 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Actors Jonathan Gardner and voice and text coach Jacqueline Springfield discuss the 2025 production of The Barber and the Unknown Prince by Gavin Dillon Lawrence at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Director Brenda DeVita and actors Rasell Holt, Alina Taber, and Kelly Simmons discuss the 2025 production of Picnic by William Inge at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Director Shannon Cochran and actors Colleen Madden, Phoebe Gonzalez, and Laura Rook discuss the 2025 production of Fallen Angels by Noel Coward at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Director Tyrone Phillips and actors Gavin Lawrence and Jim DeVita discuss the 2024 production of Nat Turner in Jerusalem by Nathan Alan Davis at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.
Making the Most of Your
APT Theater Visit
American Players Theatre is a professional theater located in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Situated on 110 acres of hilly woods and meadows, APT has two theaters: a 1000 seat outdoor amphitheater and the 200 seat indoor Touchstone Theatre. From June through November, APT produces nine plays in rotating repertory. Listen before you come to Spring Green (or on your way home) as Orange Schroeder and Buzz Kemper interview the directors and actors of APT to help you enjoy and appreciate each play.