I grew up in Madison, and my mother is a Theater professor; I got taken to American Players Theater a lot. They do very traditional productions in this stunning outdoor amphitheater, through summer and early fall. On cool fall nights we'd bring sleeping bags to climb into for warmth while we watched.

When I was a kid, watching Shakespeare was as much about the experience of APT as it was about anything else. (We also had to drive to and from Spring Green, so we'd get home really late at night, and there's this loooooooooong walk up a wooded path from the parking lot, then back down when the show is over, and there was no running water up by the stage so the "bathroom" was a column of portapots. So going to APT fell as much into the category of "adventure" as "entertainment/art.")