The origins of the comedy and tragedy masks can be traced back to ancient Greece, where theater first flourished as a significant cultural and social institution.

So, the classic theatrical symbol of the happy and sad mask were quite familiar to me: comedy and tragedy, the two basic types of plays.

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 Black Phone' director Scott Derrickson, designer Tom Savini and fabricator Jason Baker collaborated on creating a series of indelibly haunting masks for the Grabber.

Shannon Murphy wants to change the conversation around death. "I've been obsessed with death from such a young age and in many ways it's this great adventure that we will all go on," says the ...

For the vast majority of stand-ups in comedy clubs, addressing tragedy that evokes sorrow and fear can backfire.

The present paper poses the question of the different ways in which madness is laughed at—or with—in Attic Tragedy and in Old Comedy. What is the significance of each kind of “mad laughter”?

In a column titled “Joe Biden, From Comedy to Tragedy,” Tyrrell had concluded that the freshman president of the United States, one Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., a man of a “multiplicity of ...

‘Richard III’: Dark comedy dominates the tragedy in Chicago Shakes’ new take Star Katy Sullivan demonstrates extraordinary physicality in director Edward Hall’s imaginative, sometimes ...

Amidst the tragedy woven throughout Shakespeare’s “The Winter Tale,” bits of comedy flare through.