Modern use: Today, theater-makers use masks in novel ways. Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski, who is considered one of the founders of experimental theater, often used masks in his teaching.

Their almond-shaped eyes stare blankly into space. The ambivalent corners of their mouths leave their moods utterly indiscernible. These wooden masks, used in an ancient form of Japanese theater ...

Denial is one method of grappling with an in-between state, and I used it well for many years ... AS WE COME BACK to the theater with our masks on, I find myself thinking about covered-up smiles.

AMC Theatres on Friday reversed its optional mask policy and will require employees and guests to wear masks when the movie theater chain reopens. "At AMC Theatres, we think it is absolutely ...

ROSSENDALE Museum in Whitaker Park is hosting an exhibition of masks used by the Horse and Bamboo Theatre in Waterfoot. The exhibition, which begins next Wednesday, will display masks used in past ...

No band has used masks quite like Sleep Token, though. Looking further back to the relationship between face decoration and themes of anonymity and identity, comedy and tragedy, theatre and ritual ...