Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW
Remaining Performances:
Wednesday, July 20 at 6 p.m.
Saturday, July 23 at 2:15 p.m.
They say: “Back by popular DADA-demand! Three Clowns, two Visionaries, and a Musician walk into a bar. THIS IS NOT A JOKE! It is the surreal Cabaret Revoltaire. The guests are visionaries. Beware of Forgeries! Text is from ACTUAL Manifestos. [...]

Handbook for Hosts
Studio Theatre (Mead Theatre – 1501 14th St. NW)
Remaining Performances:
Thursday, July 15th, 10:15 p.m.
Saturday, July 17th, 1 p.m.
Sunday, July 18th, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 24th, 8 p.m.
They Say: “Puzzling. Seductive. Film-noir meets radio in a comic cocktail collage ignited by Esquire’s 1949 HANDBOOK FOR HOSTS. Consummate recipes from a time when men were men, [...]

That the latter is the full extent of the concept makes Cabaret CooCoo a slender thing—Mark, Sabrina, et al. are applying their virtuosity to a project so light it’s almost airborne. Last year’s Manifesto! demonstrated that Happenstance is best when retrofitting its elegant mummery onto haut concepts—or whittling those concepts down to more clownlike proportions, as the case may be. In comparison, Cabaret comes off a bit like “Her Majesty”after the dizzying suite on the second side of Abbey Road: Charming, but with the whiff of an afterthought.

MANIFESTO!
The Source

Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 8 PM; Sunday, July 20 @ 3:30 PM; Wednesday, July 23 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, July 26 @ 9 PM
They say: Manifesto!
Art movement. Political movement.
MANIFESTO! is DADA. Clown is HAHA!
Three clowns, two punk visionaries, and an impresario walk into a bar. This is not a joke! This is [...]

Watch and listen as Fringe & Purge chats with Jeffrey of Speakeasy D.C., Mark and Sabrina of Happenstance Theater, and Julianne and Scott, the masterminds behind D.C. Fringe.Trouble viewing? Try the YouTube version of this video