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2012 Stories by Juliet Wittman

• The Whale is a big hit -- so big that the Denver Center is adding shows

  published Feb 08, 2012

  ​Fat people are an entertainment staple these days, from The Biggest Loser to the Food Network's new offering, Fat Chef. Still, you wouldn't really expect a play about a 600-pound man slowly dyi More >>

• The Arvada Center's The Importance of Being Earnest keeps an old play fresh

  published February 9, 2012

  To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. — Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest has... More >>

• Doctor Crippen is a stylized, macabre Victorian murder

  published February 9, 2012

  What is it that makes us find Victorian murders so juicy, fascinating and macabre? And also so irresistibly funny? Is it the formal outfits,... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 9, 2012

  9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military called the... More >>

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  Jason Grote, writer for Smash, got the gig through a New Play Summit contact

  published Feb 06, 2012

  ​There's huge buzz around Smash, a television show premiering at 9 p.m. tonight on NBC. A procedural drama depicting the creation of a musical about Marilyn Monroe, Smash features such big-name More >>

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  The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen is knocking them dead!

  published Feb 03, 2012

  ​What is it that makes us find Victorian murders so juicy, fascinating and macabrer And also so irresistibly funnyr The Catamounts, a relatively new company, has resurrected yet another Victoria More >>

• You know them: Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner

  published February 2, 2012

  The Israel-Palestine conflict has spawned furious arguments among friends and families at many a Jewish dinner table — even with guests... More >>

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  published February 2, 2012

  9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military called the... More >>

• Hey Boulder Fringe Festival lovers: the deadline to apply is Monday

  published Jan 27, 2012

  ​If you've always wanted to be part of the two week riot of performance that constitutes the Boulder Fringe Festival, you need to get your application in before 11:59 p.m. on Monday, January 30. More >>

• Drama and humor mix well in The Whale

  published January 26, 2012

  It takes guts and ingenuity to write a play in which the protagonist is a morbidly obese man, constantly on stage and essentially tethered in... More >>

• Becky's New Car is fast and fun but doesn't stick with you

  published January 26, 2012

  Playwright Steve Dietz never bores me. His dialogue is usually smart and his imagination fresh. He likes to come up with intricate plot twists,... More >>

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  published January 26, 2012

  9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military... More >>

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  The Book of Mormon tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Sunday

  published Jan 19, 2012

  ​You could pretty much hear the yelps of joy all the way out here when The Book of Mormon opened in New York last year. The New York Times declared this musical -- by our very own South Park cre More >>

• PHAMALY's Elephant Man focuses on the loneliness of society's outcasts

  published January 19, 2012

  You couldn't find a more fitting interpreter for Bernard Pomerance's play The Elephant Man than the Physically Handicapped Actors... More >>

• Based on Iraq War atrocities, 9 Circles is clear-eyed and tightly written

  published January 19, 2012

  I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in... More >>

• Present Laughter's mix of style and vulgarity works

  published January 12, 2012

  Belgians and Greeks do it, Nice young men who sell antiques do it Let's do it. Let's fall in love. The Brontes felt that... More >>

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  Theater openings are off to a fast start in January

  published Jan 03, 2012

  ​If the flurry of excitement and variety we're being offered in January is any indication, this is going to be an amazing year for theater. The month opens on a light note: a 1930s Noel Coward More >>

• Black Actors Guild does the most with Doin' the Most

  published Dec 22, 2011

  ​The Black Actors Guild was originally founded by five juniors at the Denver School of the Arts who were frustrated with the available material and also by the stereotype of the black actor, acc More >>

• Vaclav Havel's revolution was a testament to the subversive power of art

  published Dec 20, 2011

  ​Vaclav Havel, the unassuming playwright dissident who helped spearhead the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that overthrew Communism in Czechoslovakia, died on December 18. He became the country's pre More >>

• Michelle Ellsworth dances her way to a USA Fellowship

  published Dec 09, 2011

  ​Performance artist Michelle Ellsworth's onstage persona is a fascinating mix of humility and daring, mockery and gentleness. She comes across as a deferential satirist, a playful deep thinker, More >>

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  John Moore's exit from the Denver Post leaves a void in the theater scene

  published Dec 07, 2011

  ​It hit home for members of the theater community Sunday, when they opened the Denver Post and found a gaping void in the arts pages: There was no column by longtime critic and commentator John More >>

• Kafka on Ice redux: Tonight at Buntport Theater

  published Dec 02, 2011

  ​ Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice -- created by the company in 2004 -- combines events from the author's life with incidents in his famous novella Metamorphosis (you know, the one that begins, " More >>

• A Streetcar Named Desire opens at Germinal Stage

  published Nov 10, 2011

  ​A Streetcar Named Desire opened this past weekend at Germinal Stage Denver. Juliet Wittman's complete review will run in our November 17 issue; in the meantime, here's a capsule critique:When B More >>

• Josh Beckius was sentenced to prison at sixteen -- but sixteen years later, he has a second chance

  published Oct 26, 2011

  ​I first encountered Josh Beckius, subject of "Redemption," this week's cover story, as a photograph in the Boulder newspaper. I'd read that some teenagers had been arrested in connection with a More >>

• There's a new gay theater in town, and it's getting started with a comedy about nuns

  published May 27, 2011

  ​There's a new gay theater in town, created by Steve Paulding and Preston Britton. We haven't had one since Theatre Group, which at its height served a lively mix of raunchy, campy spoofs and se More >>