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

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.

La Bohème' proves its supremacy in welcoming newcomers to opera's bombast, 'Co-founders' tries to play it both ways.

Putting on a false face to temporarily become someone ... In the early days of theater, mask performance was used to ... ‘We have to do what theater does best,’ ” Taymor told Drama & Theatre.

Leaving the mask question up to the customer, though, strikes me as better for business than it is for COVID-19 statistics. These theater chains are on the ropes.

These wooden masks, used in an ancient form of Japanese theater called Noh, were made to be expressionless. But performers are charged with using slight and subtle movements to reveal the hidden ...