Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Extra! High-Level Wisconsin Outdoor Theater Destination Rolling On

By Warren Gerds, We Are Green Bay | August 1, 2018

SPRING GREEN, Wis. (WFRV) - It rained.

My busman’s holiday* to two American Players Theatre plays ran up against one performance being cut off before the conclusion and the other stopped 20 minutes in from the start.

Oh well, rain is the chance you take with outdoor performances.

I was still able to get a flavor of the place. The professionalism is tasty.

That’s why American Players Theatre continues as a destination for people who like quality theater with other attractions around it – a type of Door County but not a carbon copy.

The theater is in the rolling part of Wisconsin, the scenic southwest.

Nearby attractions include a couple of notables – the wonder of hoarding (House on the Rock) and the wonder of genius (Taliesen, the home of great architect Frank Lloyd Wright).

American Players Theatre is one of the if-you-build-it-they-will-come phenomena.

The campus is off a winding road off a winding road at the top of the hill in the middle of the woods. Also, you have to trundle about a quarter of a mile up to the theater on a winding gravel path. They payoff once you settle into the amphitheater seating is adventuresome theater.

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