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Collection on the Children's Theatre Company

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0277

Description of Contents

The collection consists of newspaper clippings, advertisements, season brochures, programs, annual reports, and assorted pamphlets, press packets, stage layouts, fliers, and similar materials.

Dates

  • Creation: 1952 - 2012

Creator

Access

The collection is available for use in Special Collections at Minneapolis Central Library during the department's open hours.

History

The Children's Theater Company started in 1961 as a professional theater troupe for young audiences called The Moppet Players. The company changed its name to the Children's Theater Company in 1965 when it moved to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts lecture hall. In 1969, the Children's Theater Company started a theater school for students, an accredited grade school and high school where kids would spend half of the day studying academic work and the other half studying theater.

The Company ended its affiliation with the Institute of Arts and the Society of Fine Arts in 1975 and became independent. In 1984, the company ended its theater school. THRESHOLD, a new play laboratory, was started in 1998 which was designed to enlist emerging artists to write new plays for the Company to debut.

The new Children's Theater building, designed by Michael Graves in 2001, enhanced the Theater's offerings allowing the Company to host six mainstage productions per year as well as four additional shows on the smaller, more intimate Cargill Stage. Today, Children's Theater is a flagship theater for young people and families and a major cultural and artistic resource in Minnesota.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (1 box, oversize posteres)

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials in Hennepin County Library Special Collections

Processing Information

Programs from 2018 were added by Jenna Jacobs in October 2018.

Title
Collection on the Children's Theatre Company
Status
Completed
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Hennepin County Library Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Minneapolis Central Library
300 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis MN 55401 U.S.A.
612-543-8200