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 my mind, a tragedy was something that made you cry, and a comedy was something that made you laugh — thus the laughing and crying masks. It was only later that I learned there was a little ...

Mike Lee as Feste, in this scene from "Twelfth Night," which is part of the Houston Shakespeare Festival performed at Miller Outdoor Theatre. (For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain, July 30, 2017) ...

Two Michael Hollinger plays — a comedy and a drama — will be produced this month by two different companies rehearsing on different floors of the same building in South Philadelphia. In a second-floor ...

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 universal symbol for drama dates back to ancient Greece. It is the comedy-tragedy mask. If you are unclear about what that symbol looks like, picture two masks - one showing a happy face and ...

'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.

Was there ever one that so fully embodied the dual comedy and tragedy masks that symbolize the season? Mardi Gras always encompasses countless small acts of kindness. Fleeting connections between ...

The piece is on 20.00" x 15.00" illustration board, with an image that measures to 10.50" x 8.50." Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of enduring TV Host Milton Berle as the Greek Masks of ...

The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy. Comedy: The first comedies were mainly satirical and mocked men in power for their vanity and foolishness.