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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.” Survivors include his wife, Dara, whom he married in 2007; their children Lily, 14, and Max, 12; his sister, Karen; and his nephew, Graham.