Established in May 2005, Anton Podbevšek Theatre (APT) is the youngest Slovenian professional theatre house and the first professional theatre in the history of Novo mesto, a town in the south-eastern region of Slovenia. The theatre is named after Anton Podbevšek, the first Slovenian avant-garde poet and the "frontman" of the 1920 avant-garde movement called the Novo Mesto Spring, suggesting APT's orientation toward research, risk-taking, reflection and new modes of presentation.