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 ...

Directors Kim McKean and Vanessa Stalling will make their Illinois Shakes debuts with the Bard’s comedy and tragedy, respectfully. But neither is entirely new to the festival. McKean and Stalling both ...

Greece’s parliament voted Thursday to investigate a former transport minister over the country’s worst rail tragedy that left 57 dead in 2023. Government lawmakers approved the probe into the ...

Likewise, Ashvaghosha’s inspiration for theater was likely Greek performances that took place in the post-Alexandrian Far East. The archaeological record reveals significant evidence of Greek-style ...

Europe News: Greece's parliament voted to investigate former Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis over a devastating train collision in 2023 that claimed 57 lives, intensifying scrutiny on ...

The Greek Parliament convened today for a heated session to vote on a preliminary inquiry into the Tempi train crash, deciding the fate of 14 political figures, including former Transport Minister ...

But tariffs aren't the only inflationary factor potentially at play. Lachman said that if you add the implications of Trump's tax bill on the value of the US dollar as the the national debt and ...

Like a protagonist in a Greek tragedy, President Donald Trump is exhibiting a concerning level of hubris in his handling of the US economy, former IMF official Desmond Lachman worries.

A 60-year-old German hiker died after falling in a remote area of Mount Olympus during a climbing expedition. Greek emergency services launched a major rescue operation, locating her unconscious in ...

Aristophanes, the great comic dramatist of Athens, wrote the Lysistrata for performance in February 411 BC, probably at the Lenaia. The play was written against the backdrop of the final years of the ...

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is known for being one of the series’ more somber installments, and one of the game’s saddest stories was memorialized in Breath of the Wild’s Lanayru Region. Plenty ...