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 9, 2024 16 mins

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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August 22, 2023 22 mins

Director John Langs joins actors Joshua Castillo, who plays Romeo, and Isabelle Bushue, who plays Juliet, in discussing the 2023 production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet 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 19 mins

Director Rosa Joshi joins actor Nancy Rodriguez to discuss the 2023 production of the one-woman show Mala by Melinda Lopez 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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Director Laura Rook joins actor Marcus Truschinski to discuss the 2023 production of Once Upon a Bridge 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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June 9, 2023 16 mins

Director Keira Fromm joins actors Kelsey Brennan and Phoebe González to discuss the 2023 production of The Liar 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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June 9, 2023 18 mins

Director Tyrone Phillips joins actor Jamal James, who portrays Jay, to discuss the 2023 production of The Royale 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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June 9, 2023 19 mins

Director Tim Ocel joins actor Sarah Day, who portrays the Stage Manager, to discuss the 2023 production of Our Town 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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APT Core Company member David Daniel, who portrays Sir John Falstaff, discusses the 2023 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by  Terri McMahon, 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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Director Tim Ocell joins actors Nate Burger and Marcus Truschinski to discuss the 2022 production of Stones in His Pockets 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 2, 2022 16 mins

Director Keira Fromm joins actors Kelsey Brennan and Tracy Michelle Arnold to discuss the American Players Theater production of Jen Silverman’s The Moors.  Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your 2022 theater visit to Spring Green, Wisconsin.

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