Dozens of Festival Plays Worth Traveling to This Summer

Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Times

Midwest

Forget Netflix: One of the pleasures of summer is to find a repertory house and binge as many different shows as possible. A great place to start is the Wisconsin treasure American Players Theater, which is putting its ace troupe through its paces by rotating nine shows. The bigger productions, in an outdoor amphitheater perched atop a small hill, include “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (June 7-Oct. 5), “Picnic” (June 20-Sept. 13) and “Anna in the Tropics” (Aug. 1-Sept. 26). The indoor slate includes “‘Art’” (June 13-Sept. 28) and the premiere of Gavin Dillon Lawrence’s “The Death of Chuck Brown” (June 24-Sept. 25), a play about community and gentrification in Washington.

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