Big-Time Theatre For Small Fry

The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis recently won a Tony award for regional theatre companies, the first time that a company focusing on kids had won such an award. The CTC is obviously a deeply imbedded part of the Twin Cities’ theatrical community, and it can legitimately lay claim to conditioning thousands of young minds to enjoy serious theatre, an accomplishment which benefits every other company in the region. So why don’t more cities have such a company? Cities like, say, Chicago? The simple answer may be that no one’s ever really tried to start one.