APT Portable Prologues: Recent Episodes
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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Actors Jonathan Gardner and voice and text coach Jacqueline Springfield discuss the 2025 production of The Death of Chuck Brown 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Actors Marcus Truschinski and Jessica Ko offer their insights into the 2024 production of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing 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.
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 Theater in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit.
Director Gavin Lawrence and actor Lester Perry discuss the 2024 production of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 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.
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.
Director Laura Gordon and actor Nate Burger discuss the 2024 production of the Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Christopher Fry, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join actors Marcus Truschinski and Phoebe González as they discuss the 2022 American Players Theater production of William Shakespeares’ Love’s Labour’s Lost. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your 2022 theater visit to Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Director Tasia A. Jones joins actors Gina Daniels and Deanna Reed-Foster to discuss the American Players Theater production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your 2022 theater visit to Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Director Gavin Lawrence joins actors Rasell Hold and Nathan Barlow to discuss the American Players Theater production of The Brothers Size. This contemporary work is part of The Brother/Sister Plays triptych by playwright, screenwriter and actor Tarell Alvin McCraney. Enhance your experience and appreciation of the play by listening to this lively interview before or after your 2022 theater visit to Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Actors Ronald Román-Meléndez and Melisa Pereyra join host Orange Schroeder to discuss the American Players Theater 2022 production of The River Bride by Marisela Treviño Orta. Enhance your experience and appreciation of The River Bride by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit to Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Director Marti Lyons joins actors Laura Rook and Samantha Newcomb to discuss the American Players Theater 2022 production of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, adapted for the stage by Jessica Swale. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your theater visit to Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Director Aaron Posner joins actors Kelsey Brennan and Marcus Truschinski to discuss the American Players Theater production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy The Rivals. Enhance your experience and appreciation by listening to this lively interview before or after your 2022 theater visit to Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Director James DeVita joins actors Nate Burger and Alys Dickerson to discuss the 2022 production of Hamlet 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.