Tag: Joan Cummins
Review: ‘The Tarot Reading (IV)’ at Anacostia Arts Center
Despite its occultish name, The Tarot Reading is not a cabalistic rite for mystics. It is actually an ingenious theater game for hipster questers...
Source Theatre Festival 2015: ‘Love & Botany: 10-Minute Plays’
Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire (later turned into a PBS documentary of the same name) explored the world from the point of view of four...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘Miss Emma’s Matchmaking Agency for Literary Characters’
(Best of the Capital Fringe)
A modern incarnation of Emma Woodhouse runs a matchmaking business for literary lonely heats. With a little harmless manipulation and...
Capital Fringe Review: ‘Tragedy Averted’ by Julia L. Exline
Ad Hoc Players presents Tragedy Averted, an exceptionally creative comedic piece written by Alexandra Petri and directed by Joan Cummins. Smart, pithy dialogue combined...
2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Tragedy Averted’ by Alexandra Petri
If there’s one thing we know about the Tragedies of William Shakespeare (regardless of authorship, date, and a heck of a lot of other stuff)...