Moments after the double grand march at the conclusion of the 2026 Carnival season, the monarchs of the Rex Organization and of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, founded respectively in ...

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 ...

Regarding the James Gill column "Carnival not what it used to be, when parades had class," the Comus Krewe that he so admires set the racist pattern of New Orleans Mardi Gras that still echoes today.

John Milton's masque "Comus" may have gotten a few laughs when it was first performed in 1634, but certainly not every time the word "chastity" was mentioned. The staged reading of "Comus" presented ...

I love the revelation, in her preface in the programme, that Emma Rice laughed out loud when Lucy Bailey pitched the “brilliant, left-field idea” of staging this 1637 masque by Milton as part of the ...