Single Carrot Theatre Company gets rave reviews

Baltimore, Md. - The Single Carrot Theatre continues to entertain Charm City.

It was voted the best theatre company by the City Paper and is receiving excellent reviews around the country.

Here's its story: Based in Baltimore these University of Colorado college grads wanted to change the world. They just weren't sure where to begin.

So the gang of idealistic University of Colorado theater students decided to vote for the American city to which they would move -- for most of them, sight unseen -- to create their own theater company. Charm City was the winner.

They had compiled a list of 50 contenders and winnowed them to five, based on variables such as cost of living and the level of local funding for the arts.

The company is called Single Carrot Theatre. Ensconced, as such outfits tend to be, on the threadbare edge of a downtown, in a funky former garage with a stage that was once a loading dock, the theater is one of those vital signs of youth-driven cosmopolitanism.

And the town is responding: Last year Single Carrot was named Baltimore's best theater company by the Baltimore City Paper. The success of the troupe, in the middle of its fourth season, is an indicator of Baltimore's willingness to welcome untested artists who embrace the city's disheveled exuberance.

$20 is the most expensive ticket in the house.