On this day 160 years ago, an important page in American history was written when the Mistick Krewe of Comus presented the first Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans on Fat Tuesday. Comus brought order to ...

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The grand finale of Mardi Gras 2024 came Shrove Tuesday evening with the traditional Meeting of the Courts of the Mistick Krewe of Comus and Rex during the Comus bal masque at the Marriott Hotel.

Lucy Bailey and the National Theatre of Brent’s Patrick Barlow bring the poet’s masque to magical life in this delightful staging Director Lucy Bailey has a deserved reputation for treating difficult ...

It’s rare to have a chance to see a performance of Comus, a masque written by John Milton in 1634 to celebrate the Earl of Bridgewater’s new post as Lord President of Wales. In the eighteenth century, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It would be a brave playwright today who wrote “A Masque in Honour of Chastity”, but such is the design of this ...