Engaging Shaw
American Players Theatre, Spring Green 5950 Golf Course Road, Spring Green, Wisconsin 53588
Directed by APT’s producing artistic director emeritus David Frank, this is a play about a playwright, whose play, Heartbreak House, APT is performing this season. George Bernard Shaw (James Ridge) is a well-known writer, wit and advocate for social justice. But he is also an unrepentant philanderer. His aversion to marriage is so strong that he clings to it even in the face of the clever and charismatic Charlotte Payne-Townshend (Colleen Madden), who is clearly more than a match for him. Urged on by their friends Beatrice (Tracy Michelle Arnold) and Sidney Webb (Gavin Lawrence), the couple trades witty barbs while forming a close friendship. Even more entertaining, the would-be lovers, Ridge and Madden, are married in real life. Through Nov. 18.
10/25-11/18, American Players Theatre-Touchstone, Spring Green, at 7:30 pm Thursdays (1 pm on 11/15), 8 pm on Fridays (1 pm on 11/9), 1 & 6 pm on Saturdays (no 1 pm on 10/27) and 1 pm Sundays, plus 7:30 pm on 10/30, 11/7 & 14 and 1 pm, 10/31 & 11/6. $86-$51.