Tag: Happenstance Theater
DCTA 2023 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Professional Productions
These professional productions made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
Magic and mystery in Happenstance Theater’s ‘ADRIFT: A Medieval Wayward Folly’...
“What do we do now?” ponder five bewildered characters from the Dark Ages floating on a crowded ship of fools. As part of its...
How Sabrina Mandell met Mark Jaster and Happenstance Theater began
In a series called 'The Companies We Keep,' DC Theater Arts spotlights the good work done by theater companies in the DC region. This month we focus on two artists who by happenstance fell in love making inspired works for the stage.
DC’s Happenstance Theater embodies the fatal faux pas of the aristocracy...
What’s an 18th-century aristocrat to do, when trapped inside a luxurious salon while the French revolution rages right outside the door? The DC area's...
Review: ‘Cabaret Noir’ by Happenstance Theater
The phrase “film noir” evokes both a particular sub-genre of the crime film as well as a particular era. Inspired by the moody expressionist...
Review: Happenstance Theater’s ‘Slapstick Jukebox’ Is a Wacky Good Time
Catch Happenstance Theater's Slapstick Jukebox before it scoots away. Only five shows were planned for this weekend, so only the fast and the few...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2015 #4: Best Plays in Professional Theaters
Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff's honorees for Best Plays in Professional Theaters in 2015:
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas at Olney Theatre Center.
A...
‘Cabaret Noir’ at Happenstance Theater at Baltimore Theatre Project
Femme fatales and fedoras, trench coats and torch songs, intrigue and suspense… such is the tagline for Happenstance Theater’s Cabaret Noir, and it offers...
2015 Capital Fringe Review ‘BrouHaHa’
What would you do at the end of the world?
Happenstance Theatre’s newest show BrouHaHa answers this and more, as six clowns journey towards the...
‘Impossible! A Happenstance Circus’ at Round House Theatre
A colorful celebration of classic circuses and clowns from the 1930s and '40s, Happenstance Theater elevates old-fashioned, family-friendly entertainment to a fantastical new level...
‘Impossible! A Happenstance Circus’ at Happenstance Theater by Amanda Gunther
Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up! A circus the likes of which you’ve never seen has come to Round House Theatre in Silver Spring...
‘Cabaret Macabre’ at Happenstance Theater by Amanda Gunther
'Tis the time of year when leaves wither from the trees and waft upon the autumn breeze to the cold and rigid ground below....
‘Pinot & Augustine’ at Happenstance Theater at Hylton Performing Arts Center...
The Golden Age of the Circus was from 1870-1950. During those years is when the Circus swelled into the largest show-biz industry in the...
‘Vanitas’ at Happenstance Theater by Amanda Gunther
What is time? We all have a sense of it, and in fact know what time is but when asked to explain it, we...
Round House Theatre Unveils Its 2013-2014 Season: ‘Round House Reinvented’ by...
For Producing Artistic Director Ryan Rilette's first full season, Round House Theatre in Bethesda has unveiled its 2013-2014 season entitled Round House Reinvented. It's...
‘My Heart Belongs to DADA: Happenstance Theater Valentine BrouHaHa and Fundraiser’...
My Heart Belongs to DADA : Happenstance Theater Valentine BrouHaHa and Fundraiser
An event of Decadent Proportions inspired by LOVE, DADA, ART and HAPPENSTANCE. You...
Round House Theatre Silver Spring Presents ‘Over the Line Festival’ July...
Round House Theatre shakes things up in Silver Spring this month with its inaugural Over The Line Festival. Curated by Round House, this unique...