Boston Early Music Festival brings Telemann’s comic "Pimpinone" and tragic "Ino" to the Mahaiwe, blending baroque humor and drama in a bold double bill June 27 and 28.

The Pantalone mask plays the role of the merchant in both Genshin Impact and Commedia dell'arte. In the play, he is represented to be a self-absorbed old man, who objectifies women and is ...

Learn about commedia dell’arte characters and the lessons this theatrical style can teach performers.

Well, it's opening night at the WFO 2024 and Paul Herriott is there to bring us Mascagni's Le maschere the title of which is a reference to the masks of the commedia dell'arte.

Mascagni himself had reservations, especially about elements he considered unrelated to the commedia dell’arte, but he went ahead nevertheless. Moreover, for a supposed comedy, “Le Maschere” is not ...

The metatheatrical play of this opera, whose title refers to the masks of the commedia dell'arte, is immediately revealed by the opening, in which the performance of an overture in Rossini’s ...

The high-windowed, austerely handsome set represents a wellness clinic, a place where non-commedia dell’arte masks can be put on and taken off.

Theatrical masks inspire actors — especially the ones that help define the comic archetypes in the commedia dell’arte classic “The Servant of Two Masters.” “With the mask, the face is ...

The commedia dell’arte adaptation of The Moors proves the art form can put a unique spin on contemporary tales.

Commedia dell’arte (16th and 17th century Italy): This early form of improvisational theater employed masks to signify recurring stock characters like Pantalone (the greedy old fool with a bony ...

Mike is published in The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte with a chapter on the rival playwrights Carlo Goldoni and Carlo Gozzi and has written and/or adapted four Commedia plays, including ...