ARTICLE SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED NYS THEATER INSTITUTE.(SHOWTIME)

TO THE ARTS EDITOR:

The article by Steve Barnes (``Arts Climate Warming Up,'' Showtime, Jan. 12) was a welcome report, but he glaringly omitted the area theater company which is likely responsible for a good part of theater's current upturn in the Capital Region.

For more than 20 years, one area company alone has committed itself to developing theatergoers and theater artists of the future by steadfastly conducting theater and education programs for families and for young people through high school age.

That company alone committed itself to nurturing the natural hunger of young people for theatrical experience and it is the only company in the …