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

4 days ago

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.

4 days ago

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. 

4 days ago

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.

7 days ago

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.

Wednesday Jun 03, 2026

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.

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

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.

Tribes: APT Portable Prologue

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

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.

'ART': APT Portable Prologue

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.

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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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