American Players Theatre, in Spring Green, Wis., “is a conservative operation that has long tended to operate under a dictum akin to first, do no harm. This irritates those of us who’d like to see this gorgeous and highly proficient, but demonstrably risk-averse, arts organization grow its national reputation…. But it’s a we-pay-our-bills philosophy that has allowed APT to build one of the very few new theaters in America constructed in the teeth of this recession.”