American Players settles in for second season on new stage: This summer, it feels like home

By Lawrence B. Johnson for Chicago on the Aisle | June 12, 2018

If the novelty has worn off the new stage at American Players Theatre, which with its trap-laden floor opened last summer amid general euphoria, the charm can now begin to work its magic.

Or, as APT artistic director Brenda DeVita put it: “Last year, everybody wanted to use the traps, and this year nobody’s using them. Everyone is now settling into the new place as home.”

Open house 2018 begins June 16 when the company opens its 39th season with Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” on a stage whose reconstruction was the capstone of an $8 million renovation of the hill-top venue at Spring Green, Wis., about 30 miles west of Madison. As epilogue to that formidable project, APT announced that the entire sum has been raised: Its handsomely refurbished home is paid for.

Gavin Lawrence and Jim DeVita in Blood Knot

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