Minneapolis/St. Paul is America’s 15th-largest metropolitan area, with virtually none of the national buzz and star-driven glitz that hews to cities like Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco. So how is it that the Twin Cities theatre scene has been racking up so many national awards and accolades in recent years? Part of the answer can be found in Minnesota’s nearly unmatched public and private support for the arts, but there’s more to it than that. In fact, much of the Twin Cities’ theatrical success may lie in the local scene’s almost total lack of interest in sucking up to New York.