Single Carrot Theatre Closes After 15 Years Of Producing Theatre In Baltimore
After 15 years of producing vibrant, experiential theatre in Baltimore City, Single Carrot announces its intent to permanently close in the spring. In its 15 year history, SCT has mounted over 60 productions; commissioned and developed numerous new works, organized and hosted community events; participated in three international collaborations; taught in classrooms, libraries, and community centers all over the city; fostered meaningful partnerships with artists, community organizers, and service organizations across Baltimore; and touched the lives of tens of thousands of people through theatre.
EVERY BRILLIANT THING to Open Single Carrot Theatre's 14th Season
Single Carrot Theatre will partner with three community organizations supporting people living with mental illness when the Baltimore-based theatre company returns to live theatre September 3 with Every Briliant Thing. September is acknowledged internationally as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
Single Carrot Theatre Launches Community Conversations Around MR. WOLF
As part of Single Carrot Theatre's mission, to produce socially relevant theatrical productions while interacting with the community, SCT is building Community Partnerships for each of its site-specific productions in Season 12. These partnerships focus on expanding the exploration of the social significance of the plays beyond the performance, raising awareness on how these issues and themes are at play right here in Baltimore, as well as act as a way to engage the community with the spaces in which productions are taking place.
Single Carrot Theatre Announces Casting For MR. WOLF
Single Carrot Theatre kicks off Season 12 with Rajiv Joseph's powerful play Mr. Wolf, which opens on Friday, September 13. The cast brings together multiple new faces to Single Carrot from the Baltimore theatre community, as well as reunites a creative team from past seasons.
Mocking a Personality Cult: PUTIN ON ICE at Single Carrot
In a short 2016 profile in American Theatre, Russian emigre director Yury Ornov expounded on the freedoms of theater: 'You can hate people; you can do a hate show about Putin, for example, or about your ex-wife.' It seems that Lola B. Pierson's Putin On Ice (That Isn't the Real Title of This Show) is the hate show about Putin that Urnov, a close associate of Pierson through Baltimore's Acme Corporation, had in mind. (That said, Genevieve de Mahy, the Artistic Director of Single Carrot Theatre, on whose premises that show, a joint production with the Acme Corporation, is now playing, claims in a program note that the idea came from Single Carrot.) In the same profile just mentioned, Ornov emphasized how important and liberating it was to laugh at the things that distress us. Putin On Ice is nothing if not funny, though, as my companion on press night pointed out, there was a risk, throughout most of the show, that the laughs would ultimately obscure the seriousness and the threat of its subject.
Truth, Power, And Subversion Take Center Stage In THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY
Single Carrot Theatre's 11th season continues with A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney. From Lucas Hnath, writer of The Christians and the Tony-award-winning A Doll's House Part 2, The Death of Walt Disney takes audiences deep inside the dark heart of the Disney machine. Far from the sanitized history presented by the Walt Disney Company, Hnath's portrait of the megalomaniac behind the magic is a sharp and blackly comic look at one man's quest for immortality. As the lines of fantasy and reality blur in this dramatic retelling, dramaturg Abigail Cady has worked closely with directors Genevieve de Mahy and Matthew Shea to navigate the murky waters of Walt Disney's life.
Sold-Out PROMENADE: BALTIMORE Adds Extra Shows at Single Carrot Theatre
In response to continued demand for tickets, Single Carrot Theatre will be extending the sold-out Promenade: Baltimore for three performances. The production, which is already the highest-grossing show in Single Carrot's ten-year history, has been praised by critics and audience members alike as innovative, immersive, and moving.
BWW Review: Single Carrot's Magical Mystery Tour: A SHORT REUNION
The Therapist, embodied by Paul Diem, launched into a spirited evocation of the art of theater, which morphed into a vision of all life as a work of art. In that spirit, flags and funny hats were passed out to the congregation, as the Therapist stripped down to Superman skivvies and led the whole assemblage out onto Howard Street in a bacchanal, with a motorist honking in rhythm with the syncopation of Faith, and thence back to the theater.