Let's get this party started: American Players Theatre celebrates with 'A Midsummer Night's Dream

By Paul Kosidowski, Milwaukee Magazine

July 5, 2017

John Langs stages a thoroughly modern "Dream," which marks the opening of the new APT stage.

Thirty-seven years ago, Jonathan Smoots stepped onto a newly built stage in Spring Green and began the first season of American Players Theatre. Last Sunday, he uttered the same line–“Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour/Draws on apace…”–upon a newly rebuilt stage. This production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which opened APT’s 2017 season, was a fitting sign of promising seasons ahead.

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