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!

Episodes

Aug 7, 2026

18 min

Director Tyrone Phillips and actors Derrick Moore and Gavin Lawrence discuss the 2026 production of Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea 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.  

Aug 7, 2026

18 min

Aug 7, 2026

25 min

Director Marcela Lorca and actors David Alan Anderson and Nathan Ramsey discuss the 2026 production of Sueño, based on La Vida es Sueño by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated and adapted by José Rivera, 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.

Aug 7, 2026

25 min

Aug 7, 2026

23 min

Director Aaron Posner and actor Colin Covert discuss the 2026 production of The Two “Gentlemen” of Verona, by William Shakespeare, adapted by Aaron Posner and Greg Kotis, 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.

Aug 7, 2026

23 min

Jun 7, 2026

21 min

Director Vanessa Stalling and actors Jim Ridge and Colleen Madden discuss the 2026 production of The Chairs, by Eugène Ionesco, translated by Martin Crimp, 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.

Jun 7, 2026

21 min

Jun 7, 2026

21 min

Actors La Shawn Banks and Dee Dee Batteast discuss the 2026 production of Casey and Diana, by Nick Green, 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. 

Jun 7, 2026

21 min

Jun 7, 2026

24 min

Director Brenda DeVita and adaptor Nate Burger discuss the 2026 production of Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov, 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.

Jun 7, 2026

24 min

Jun 4, 2026

24 min

Director Laura Rook and actors Samantha Newcomb and Sola Thompson discuss the 2026 production of As You Like It, 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.

Jun 4, 2026

24 min

Jun 3, 2026

24 min

Director Brian Cowing and actors Tracy Michelle Arnold and Triney Sandoval discuss the 2026 production of The Matchmaker, by Thornton Wilder, 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.

Jun 3, 2026

24 min

Oct 8, 2025

19 min

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.

Oct 8, 2025

19 min

Aug 15, 2025

29 min

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.

Aug 15, 2025

29 min

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.

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