This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask.

Written by Anna Ziegler and directed by Maggie Burrows, 'Janeiad' tells the stories of two women, centuries apart, who each ...

3:45-5:15pm: Panel 6: Actor and Audience in Greek Tragedy Moderator: Bill Hutton S. Olsen (Williams): The Intimacy of Actor Assignment in Euripidean Tragedy E. Weiberg (Duke): Affective Violence and ...

In tragedy, for instance, a relatively bland mask can make it easier to associate oneself with the performance. In comedy, though, the effect is more immediately alienating, more confrontationally ...

Another night and another Greek tragedy unfolds in London theatre-land – with another Oscar-winning star taking top billing. After the expansiveness of Oedipus at the Old Vic, complete with dancing ...

Playground brawl It all begins in Theatre Baton Rouge's Studio Theatre where 11-year-old Ferdinand suffers broken teeth in a fistfight with another boy, Bruno in Yazmina Reza's "God of Carnage." ...

Mosaic showing theatrical masks of tragedy and comedy. Roman artwork, 2nd century AD. Credit: Saperaud. Public Domain. They say laughter is the best medicine, but why? What if the secret to comedy’s ...

After months of intense scrutiny, two University of Colorado Boulder scholars have deciphered and interpreted what they believe to be the most significant new fragments of works by classical Greek ...

As Greek theater influenced Roman culture and eventually European traditions, the symbolism of the comedy and tragedy masks endured. The theater masks became synonymous with the dramatic arts ...

Undermain Theatre will produce Ellen McLaughlin’s 2003 adaptation of the play from May 2-26, with opening night scheduled for May 4. McLaughlin herself saw the play as drawing parallels to ...