Art in the Open Air

Two years ago we took our then-seven-year old daughter to see Merchant of Venice at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin.  She drank it in, loved it, and marveled that she could look up from the stage to the sky and see all the stars above.

During our Mineral Point visit this past week we had a chance to attend the theatre again (this time for George Bernard Shaw's The Philanderer).  It was, in short, a dreamlike evening, my wife and I in the company of our now-nine-year old, t