The origins of the comedy and tragedy masks can be traced back to ancient Greece, where theater first flourished as a significant cultural and social institution.

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 ...

So, the classic theatrical symbol of the happy and sad mask were quite familiar to me: comedy and tragedy, the two basic types of plays.

‘House of the Dragon’ Star Tom Glynn-Carney Explains How He Balances the Comedy and Tragedy of “Aegon the Magnanimous”: “I Genuinely Think He is Quite Funny” ...

Playwright wears masks of comedy, tragedy simultaneously in Philly Playwright Michael Hollinger is now rolling out two plays — a comedy, and a drama — and holding rehearsals for each in the same ...

In most lives, absurdity and sorrow are woven together too tightly to be teased apart—and it is comedy, not tragedy, that illustrates that fact most fully.

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 ...

Marty Weinberg, who once came to Martha Stewart’s defense, quoted Shakespeare yesterday in a final attempt to keep Sal DiMasi’s accountant, Richard Vitale, out of jail. Tommy Drechsler’s 100 ...

Martin said the masks, titled "Comedy and Tragedy, " originally were intended for Veterans Memorial Boulevard near the starting point of Metairie's Carnival parades -- hence the mask theme -- but ...

‘Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord’ Off Broadway Review: She Sews Pandemic Masks of Comedy, Not Tragedy L.A.-based performance artist finds humor and close-to-home truths during the pandemic ...