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

Masks will hide actors’ faces in the Young Festival Stage production “Androcles and the Lion” at Baylor's Mabee Theatre, but ...