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.

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.

So goes the action of Mozart’s Idomeneo (runs through June 25 at the War Memorial Opera House). It’s been said that every ...

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

From KISS to Ghost, there’s been a long history of ambiguous imagery in music. No band has used masks quite like Sleep Token, though. Looking further back to the relationship between face ...

“We are masking on Fridays,” an attendant told one woman who had managed to make it well inside the theater without a mask on her face. The woman apologized and drew out a mask from her purse.

It’s a 60-minute two-hander with a challenging theme, neatly fitting into the Glass Mask mode of in-your-face theatre. We meet adopted siblings Aaron and Claire.