http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M5015

Be sure to check back here and on Round House Theatre’s website for the official announcement of a new summer festival

OVER THE LINE   July 12 – 29

at the Round House Theatre Silver Spring Black Box.  Happenstance is thrilled to be a centerpiece of this new festival with a new piece called on the nOse and a new family friendly show called Pinot & Augustine. There will also be many other performances by Round House associate artists and companies, so plan to spend some time in the suburbs this summer!

on the nOse

Concept by Elena Day and Antony Bolante – Video Editor/Head writer: Antony Bolante

Live clown performances by Happenstance Theater 

Weaving onscreen interviews with onstage antics, on the nOse will shred your clown stereotypes into a bucket of confetti.

January 24 – February 28
Tuesdays from 6:30pm – 9:30pm
To Register: http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/education/training/master_classes/winter.aspx
Tuition: $370
Explore physical techniques that support comic performance, with exercises in stillness, reaction, focus, clarity of mimetic gesture, illusion, physical characterization, the divided self, status in the duo and trio, the inclusion of the audience, and clown. Mark draws on his training with Etienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau. Sabrina draws on her training in the Lecoq pedagogy with Dody DiSanto with concentration in the realm of the theatrical clown. Their complimentary approaches combine to address nuts-and-bolts physical, technical and structural skills and the more esoteric issues of honesty, presence and accessibility.

Bring the kids to see “Plunkett & Tremolo”! This Saturday evening.

Encore Stage & Studio presents Happenstance Theatre’s Plunkett & Tremolo. As star of the show, Tremolo is full of spectacular skill, knockabout comedy and classic physical antics, but Plunkett is determined to upstage him! Hilarity ensues as these two wordless fools try to prove who is who. Kids ages 4 and older and their families will be entertained by Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell’s spectacular skill and silly antics. The duo comprise Happenstance Theatre, a professional company committed to devising and producing original, performer-created visual, poetic theater.

January 7 at 7:30 pm

Where: Rosslyn Spectrum

1601 N Kent St  -  Arlington, VA 22209-2127

And look for us again next year!

WASHINGTON POST

DC THEATRE SCENE

OUR KIDS.COM

and HERE is an article about us from the Gazette…

Are you looking for an affordable alternative or supplement to the usual Christmas season entertainments? LOOK OUT BELOW! another Happenstance Tour De Force just finished its performances at Round House Theatre Bethesda…keep posted to see where it will happen next.

THUNDER!  MOONLIGHT!  SLAPSTICK! The end of the 19th century is at hand…Pierrot is on his way to Paris where he intends to make the very first recorded sound. En route he meets Augustine, a would-be Hot Air Balloonist.  Accompanied by an eccentric one-person Band they encounter comic misadventures at the Circus, the Paris Metro, the Eiffel Tower and the Moulin Rouge. Starring Mark Jaster as Pierrot, Sabrina Mandellas Augustine andKaren Hansen as The Band.

Happenstance Theater employs whimsical imagery, physical comedy and live music to engage imaginations of all ages.

Thank you all so much for coming out to see our chaotic Vaudeville extravaganza. Look for a remounting of Cabaret Coo Coo in the fall…