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The Rep and the APT stretch themselves

The state's two largest theater companies did some stretching beyond their normal comfort zones in the past week. The Milwaukee Rep opened a one-woman show of six vignettes written for and performed by an English-Australian triple-threat actress virtually unknown in this country. The American Players Theatre in Spring Green debuted its first winter show, a company-commissioned musical, which is also a first.