The mask played an essential role in Greek drama, transferring the expressive capacity of the actor to a stylized form that intervened between his own face and the audience.

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

What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief Seeing works by Sophocles and Aeschylus in their native land imparts indelible lessons about pain and memory.

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its ...

While exploring the ruins of Finziade, the last Greek colony on the island of Sicily, archaeologists discovered a mold that […] ...

Archaeologists exploring the ancient ruins of Finziade, the last Greek colony on the island of Sicily, recently discovered a mold used to create masks depicting the mythological Gorgon Medusa ...

Fragments of two lost ancient Greek plays by playwright Euripides found in Egypt were remade into a play combining theater / ...

Drama was the ubiquitous speech-act spectacle of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, and as such, offers an unrivaled interdisciplinary lens into a wide variety of textual, visual, and kinesthetic ...

What was ancient Greek culture like? Learn about Greek theatre, art, sculpture, pottery and festivals in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 primary history guide.

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… ...

Masks come with a long history. In ancient Greek drama, masks assumed exaggerated forms to embody characters, shielding the actors’ true identities. Carnival, with its vibrant tapestry of ...