A 19th century drawing depicting the costumes of the commedia dell'arte stock characters.

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

Lovers of the Italian tradition, which grew out of commedia dell’arte and featured the same stock characters, had to make do with performances staged by traveling troupes at fairs held in Paris ...

the traditional commedia dell’arte masks that figure into all of the company’s productions. But this production also features some gigantic, caricature-style heads (designed by Tara Cariaso and Aaron ...

Theater company offers ‘Hamlet’ through the filter of commedia dell’arte, resulting in a black comedy aesthetic that complements the play’s themes.

With comedy the main thrust, commedia dell’arte is a form of theatre that originated in Italy in the 16th century and is credited for having inspired Western theatre.

Dell’Arte International will present an evening of student work in “A Night of Commedia,” a contemporary interpretation of the classic semi-improvised Italian masked comedy. The shows ...

Harlequin Unmasked promises an exhibition at Toronto's Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art that features porcelain figures of characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte. It seems like a good title ...

Heads up! This is not going to be a review of the complete performance of Dell’Arte’s student-created production titled “A Night of Commedia” that I attended this past Friday evening at ...

"A Company of Wayward Saints" is about a traveling commedia dell'arte troupe, Le Compagnie de Santi Ostinati. They want to go home, but lack the funding.