Master Pieces
June 2, 2013Events

Master Pieces

Although it’s open season for Spring Green’s insect life, August is still the best time to visit American Players Theatre. Pick a weekend that highlights your choice of shows, reserve a spot at a local B&B and hit the road. This year, APT offers a must-see double feature on the stunning outdoor Up-the-Hill Theatre. For the first time in a decade, APT stages Shakespeare’s masterpiece Hamlet, featuring Matt Schwader in the title role. But this time, the Dane’s tale is paired with Tom Stoppard’s witty riff Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a comedy that enacts the same story but through…

BY Paul Kosidowski
Although it’s open season for Spring Green’s insect life, August is still the best time to visit American Players Theatre. Pick a weekend that highlights your choice of shows, reserve a spot at a local B&B and hit the road. This year, APT offers a must-see double feature on the stunning outdoor Up-the-Hill Theatre. For the first time in a decade, APT stages Shakespeare’s masterpiece Hamlet, featuring Matt Schwader in the title role. But this time, the Dane’s tale is paired with Tom Stoppard’s witty riff Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a comedy that enacts the same story but through the eyes of the lowly courtiers who are summarily dispatched before the play ends. 

 Hamlet (June 29-Oct. 4). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Aug. 2-Oct. 5). American Players Theatre. Up-the-Hill Theatre. 5950 Golf Course Rd., Spring Green, 608-588-2361, americanplayers.org.

Paul Kosidowski
Paul Kosidowski is a freelance writer and critic who contributes regularly to Milwaukee Magazine, WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio and national arts magazines. He writes weekly reviews and previews for the Culture Club column. He was literary director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater from 1999-2006. In 2007, he was a fellow with the NEA Theater and Musical Theater Criticism Institute at the University of Southern California. His writing has also appeared in American Theatre magazine, Backstage, The Boston Globe, Theatre Topics, and Isthmus (Madison, Wis.). He has taught theater history, arts criticism and magazine writing at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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