Welcome to American Players Theatre
American Players Theatre is located on 110 wooded acres near the village of Spring Green, Wisconsin. From June through November, the theater produces nine plays in rotating repertory – five in the flagship Hill Theatre, our 1075-seat outdoor theater, which was completely remodeled in 2017, and four in the intimate 201-seat indoor Touchstone Theatre.
Last summer, APT was visited by journalist Elisabeth Vincentelli for a feature in The New York Times. You can find the online edition of the article below.
For more information about APT, photos or interviews, contact:
Patty Heaston, Communications Coordinator | pheaston@americanplayers.org | 608-588-9263
Jess Amend, Marketing Director | jamend@americanplayers.org | 608-588-9240
The Core Acting Company
A forest 40 miles from the nearest city may seem like a surprising venue for world-class theater. But these pastoral stages draw talent from around the country, both on stage and behind the scenes. At the heart of the company is a core group actors who have made APT their artistic home. Having worked together for years on our stage and others, they have a chemistry that’s hard to match, and the put every ounce of it into these stories.
Full bios for the 2025 Acting Company, including the Core Company, can be found here.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
There’s something just a little otherworldly about APT’s hometown. In part, it’s the land - known as the Driftless Area, it's replete with rolling hills and stony bluffs, artfully divided by the Wisconsin River. We can thank the glaciers for all of this. Or rather, we can thank them for gliding strategically around our little slice of the heartland, leaving Spring Green and the surrounding area completely unique in the region. Winding through it all, the Wisconsin River, providing paddling, fishing and more. In fact, lovers of the outdoors will be spellbound by biking, hiking and paddling the Driftless.
But it’s not just the earth beneath our feet that makes this place what it is. It’s the atmosphere; the subtle thrill of being part of a perfect summer day. It’s the people; the eclectic mix of arty and earthy that runs through the folks that call this place home. Creative people like Frank Lloyd Wright, who chose to make Spring Green not just his home, but the home of his architecture school, Taliesin, located just up the road from APT.
Sure, it’s a bit off the beaten path. A tad shy of the typical mint-on-the-pillow amenities you might find in more cosmopolitan areas. But what Spring Green has to offer is a lot harder to find, and impossible to forget once you've experienced it.
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We hope the following information will acquaint you with this surprising theater in the woods. Please contact Patty Heaston at pheaston@americanplayers.org for additional information, electronic images or to schedule artist interviews.
Credits:
American Players Theatre, 2025