APT Portable Prologues

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

October 8, 2025 19 mins

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.

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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.

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August 7, 2025 18 mins

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.

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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.

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June 4, 2025 22 mins

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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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.

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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.

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June 3, 2025 21 mins

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.

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June 3, 2025 22 mins

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.

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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.

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Elizabeth Reese, Maggie Cramer, and Laura Rook, the actors who play three of the sisters in Dancing at Lughnasa, discuss the 2024 production of Brian Friel’s play 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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August 2, 2024 22 mins

Director Tim Ocel and actors Brian Mani and La Shawn Banks discuss the 2024 production of King Lear 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.

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August 2, 2024 20 mins

Director Vanessa Stalling and actors Phoebe Gonzalez and Casey Hoekstra discuss the 2024 production of Constellations by Nick Payne 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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Actors Marcus Truschinski and Jessica Ko offer their insights into the 2024 production of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing 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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Director Aaron Posner and actor Tracy Michelle Arnold discuss the world premiere production in 2024 of Michael Hollinger’s play The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool 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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Director Gavin Lawrence and actor Lester Perry discuss the 2024 production of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 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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Director Melisa Pereyra is joined by actors Miranda Pepin and Ron Roman-Melendez to discuss Wolf at the Door by Marisela Treviño Orta. The play is being performed in the Touchstone Theater at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin in 2024. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.

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Director Laura Gordon and actor Nate Burger discuss the 2024 production of Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Christopher Fry, 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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October 5, 2023 20 mins

Director Brenda DeVita joins actor Kelsey Brennan in discussing the 2023 production of David Auburn's Proof at American Players Theater 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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August 22, 2023 22 mins

Actors Tracy Michelle Arnold and Nate Burger offer their insights into the world premiere production of Anton’s Shorts by Anton Chekhov and Aaron Posner at American Players Theater 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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