The comedy and tragedy masks, often referred to as the theater faces or the faces of drama, are a pair of masks that represent the two main genres of theater.

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 ...

The second distinction is between two profoundly different understandings of and approaches to mental aberration: as intensely individual, “medical,” affliction (in tragedy) on the one hand or as ...

Amidst the tragedy woven throughout Shakespeare’s “The Winter Tale,” bits of comedy flare through. Much suffering can be found in the story of Leontes, whose jealousy and paranoia leads his ...

Star Katy Sullivan demonstrates extraordinary physicality in director Edward Hall’s imaginative, sometimes overwhelming production.