On Rising Theater Ticket Prices

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Arts Blog In May of 2024, Jamie Lloyd’s production of Romeo & Juliet starring Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers sold its first batch of tickets in two hours. A friend of mine told me that he and his friends had all grouped together with their laptops open,

When the Show is Over

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Arts Blog The mist has lifted, and life is back. It is an abyss, a swamp of unknowing and learning how to live without the glistening sheen of adrenaline that glosses over your eyes for the weeks and days preceding and encompassing a show. You lie flat,

Acting and Art: Channeling Animals

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Arts Blog The studio floor is covered in bodies. They are curled and strewn and spread and sprawled, as though they were dead. But they are not. Some breathe shallowly, quickly, as if their hearts fluttered about like moths. Some breathe deeply, forcing air bull-like through their

Performance Art – SIX VIEWPOINTS

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Arts Blog I arrive in the room. Other students are milling around, some stretching in the blinding winter light stretching in from the tall windows on the far side of the room, others laughing in little clusters, some silently penning down notes in blank-paged cahiers. We are