American Players Theatre in Spring Green has won a Tony Award

Lindsay Christians, The Cap Times

American Players Theatre in Spring Green has won a Tony Award. It is the first Wisconsin theater to do so in the award’s history.

The American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards, held every June, honor excellence in live theater performance, design, production and more. The Special Tony Award for Regional Theatre is voted on by the American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association.

The award comes with a $25,000 monetary grant and has been regularly awarded to one theater company each year since 1976.

Until 2013, the Regional Tony went exclusively to theaters outside of New York City. The Muny in St. Louis won in 2025; Wilma Theater in Philadelphia won in 2024.

“We are so grateful,” Brenda DeVita, APT’s artistic director, said on Tuesday morning. “It’s humbling and beautiful. So many people who work here could have their own Tony, and they stayed here and helped tell theater stories to people in rural Wisconsin.

“They deserve great stories. They deserve a Tony for believing in this place all this time.”

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