Email Author Juliet Wittman

Awards

• 2012 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published October 27, 2011

  "Redemption"

• 2012 - Bert Greene Award/International Association of Culinary Professionals, published January 20, 2011

  "Czech, Please"

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2003 Stories by Juliet Wittman

• Healthy Acting

  published December 18, 2003

  Last Summer at Bluefish Cove starts out well enough: A timidly conventional housewife, Eva, stumbles unaware into a secluded seaside... More >>

• Fairy Amusing

  published December 18, 2003

  Speaking as someone who was terrified of the telephone when I was a child because I couldn't understand how the voices of people I knew could get... More >>

• Welcome Back, Mr. Scrooge

  published December 11, 2003

  It doesn't matter how much it's quoted, kitschified, read at Christmas gatherings or adapted for stage and screen, Charles Dickens's A... More >>

• True Love, Stagecraft

  published December 11, 2003

  The Nomad Theatre's Belle and the Beast is the quintessential children's fairy tale. It's got all the requisite sweetness and magic;... More >>

• One-Man Assault

  published December 4, 2003

  Every time I attend one of Thaddeus Phillips's one-man shows, more of my friends ask to accompany me. Phillips is a genuine phenomenon, and his... More >>

• Me, My Elf and I

  published December 4, 2003

  David Sedaris's sardonic The SantaLand Diaries is a Christmas sugarplum all by itself. Well, it's something more impudent than a... More >>

• Tough-Minded Drama

  published November 27, 2003

  It's the ultimate question, the one that preoccupies all active minds: Why death? Why the inevitable, final dissolution? And why the process --... More >>

• Dickensian Exploitation

  published November 20, 2003

  Oliver! is among the best musicals ever written. But in 1960, when Lionel Bart -- then a young, working-class composer -- prepared... More >>

• Divine Inspiration

  published November 20, 2003

  God's Trombones is the title of a book by James Weldon Johnson, published in 1927 and consisting of seven poem-sermons. Johnson,... More >>

• Man Handled

  published November 13, 2003

  I haven't seen Eric Bogosian himself perform, and I haven't read his work, so I really don't know if his writing is as drop-dead funny as actor... More >>

• Love, Italian-American Style

  published November 13, 2003

  John Patrick Shanley's Italian American Reconciliation is an amiable amble of a play that revolves around the friendship of two men... More >>

• A Denver Center Bull's-eye

  published November 6, 2003

  Playwright Kenneth Lonergan is, among other things, a poet of confused and disaffected youth. He's perhaps best known for writing and directing... More >>

• Slim Pickings

  published October 30, 2003

  All the sad young men, drifting through the town Drinking up the night, trying not to drown -- "Ballad of All the Sad Young... More >>

• A Comfortable Fit

  published October 30, 2003

  The news at Country Dinner Playhouse is that Bill McHale -- artistic director from the time the playhouse opened in 1970 until his premature... More >>

• Oscar Unworthy

  published October 23, 2003

  We remember Oscar Wilde today primarily for his epigrammatic wit -- the nineteenth-century bons mots that have lost none of their sharpness or... More >>

• Mind Games

  published October 23, 2003

  In Blue/Orange, Christopher (Keith L. Hatten), a young black man, is awaiting his release from a London psychiatric hospital, where... More >>

• Mysterious Journey

  published October 16, 2003

  Underneath the Lintel is a seventy-minute one-act play that takes the form of a lecture by a buttoned-up, pedantic, spiritually... More >>

• Denver Time

  published October 16, 2003

  I've never been a particular fan of John Denver, other than acknowledging that he wrote a few pleasant tunes. And despite decades living in... More >>

• Late Love

  published October 2, 2003

  THURS, 10/2 In the early scenes of Gus Edwards's Louie and Ophelia, the title characters are crazy about each other. By... More >>

• Major Props

  published October 2, 2003

  In Elevator, the first of Buntport Theater's two original one-acts presented under the title Misc. , three people stand in an... More >>

• The Naked Truth

  published October 2, 2003

  I would like to say things were otherwise, really I would. I would like to find all kinds of nuance and dozens of brilliantly esoteric references... More >>

• Imperfectly Bewitching

  published September 25, 2003

  The strongest things in the Shadow Theatre Company's ambitious production of Macbeth are Jeffrey Nickelson's performance in the... More >>

• Shortchanging America

  published September 25, 2003

  Barbara Ehrenreich published Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America in 2001 partly as a response to President Clinton's 1996... More >>

• Slow Mooving

  published September 18, 2003

  The Drawer Boy is a droll, humorous, slowly spun story that's often gently charming. It's based on a Canadian theater project... More >>

• Still Waters

  published September 18, 2003

  Urinetown is set after a drought so severe that people no longer have private toilets; everyone must use run-down, unsanitary public... More >>