Summer stock and Shakespeare under the stars

By Jonathan Abarbenal, The Windy City Times

June 7, 2017

Wisconsin

—American Players Theatre, Spring Green—Cheek-by-jowl with Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and the Wisconsin River (canoeing, fishing, nude beach ), American Players Theatre (APT) has offered a rotating repertory of classic plays for 38 years, and has become one of the nation's leading destination theaters in the process. Spring Green has country charms plus good restaurants (and a very good bookstore) which help make APT a don't-miss three-day summer destination. The troupe has spectacular wooded grounds on a hillside above the river with plenty of free parking and picnic tables (and gas-fired grills so you can bbq). Plays are offered in a handsome newly-renovated 1100-seat outdoor amphitheater and a 200-seat indoor space. For 2017 Pericles, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear and Miller's A View from the Bridge are among the 10-play rotating repertory. 

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