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

• Kvetch-22

  published September 11, 2003

  It's hard for me to review Suddenly Hope, currently playing at the New Denver Civic Theatre. On the evening I attended, the... More >>

• Mixed Bag

  published September 4, 2003

  Miners Alley is a brand-new theater company with a decade-long pedigree. After years in Morrison, artistic director Rick Bernstein recently moved... More >>

• Mexican Meditation

  published August 28, 2003

  Local playwright Melissa Lucero McCarl's Painted Bread is a mixed bag. It's full of passionate feeling, but I also found myself... More >>

• Clutch Performance

  published August 28, 2003

  Reaching for Comfort is, among other things, a study of dysfunction: dysfunctional birth families, dysfunction within marriage, a... More >>

• Oh, Brother!

  published August 14, 2003

  The Paragon Theatre Company originally scheduled Michael Frayn's Alphabetical Order as the last show of the 2002-'03 season. Instead, the... More >>

• Grabbing a Folk Tale

  published August 7, 2003

  When Dario Fo won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1997, it was a bit of a shock in many quarters. The Italian writer considers himself a jester,... More >>

• Sweet Strains

  published July 31, 2003

  Pure goodness tends to be less dramatic than evil -- or even ordinary human frailty. It's a truism that Milton's Lucifer in Paradise Lost... More >>

• Heartfelt Songs

  published July 24, 2003

  My primary conclusion after seeing Ruggiero Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci and Enrique Granados's Goyescas at the Central... More >>

• Shrewd Move

  published July 24, 2003

  Director Robin McKee has made two risky choices for her production of The Taming of the Shrew. She has presented the play as pretty... More >>

• Growing Concerns

  published July 17, 2003

  The outline of a black eagle on a red background painted on banners and signs dominates the action of Su Teatro's Papi, Me and Cesar... More >>

• Shtick Humor

  published July 17, 2003

  One of the things that distinguish Shakespeare from all of the playwrights who preceded him (and almost all who followed) is the emotional... More >>

• Up in Song

  published July 10, 2003

  Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri yields almost unalloyed pleasure. It's about as light and frothy an opera as I can imagine, with a... More >>

• Tip Tap

  published July 10, 2003

  Chicago is a dark musical that scorns the very idea of redemption. The characters' venality reflects the corrupt society that... More >>

• Tapping Into the Past

  published July 3, 2003

  This revival of 42nd Street is a musical-comedy lover's musical comedy, a self-referential tribute to an artform that's already... More >>

• You Gotta Have Heritage

  published July 3, 2003

  A life in art requires absolute dedication. We all know about the obsessive writing and rewriting, the pain-filled, sweaty workouts in the ballet... More >>

• In the Fridge

  published June 26, 2003

  In 1998, a group of Colorado College students got together to put on a play called Quixote, a retelling of Cervantes's famous tale, with... More >>

• Film Flam

  published June 26, 2003

  Arthur Kopit's Road to Nirvana is essentially a one-joke play. Fortunately, the joke is so savage, and it's taken to such outrageous... More >>

• Unfulfilling Will

  published June 26, 2003

  I really wanted to be a lot more amused by The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) than I was. Some of the bits were clever,... More >>

• Stronger Stuff

  published June 19, 2003

  When Mark Lundholm appeared at the Ricketson Theatre in Addicted: A Comedy of Substance last year, I was blown away by his talent as... More >>

• Golden Miners

  published June 19, 2003

  There's a lot of excitement surrounding the production of The Elephant Man at the Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden. The playhouse... More >>

• Shtick in the Mud

  published June 12, 2003

  Somehow, I've managed to get through many years of theater-going without ever seeing Tartuffe, so I'm grateful to OpenStage Theatre... More >>

• Interior Space

  published June 12, 2003

  Jake's Women, now being staged by the Nomad Theatre company, is a strange pastiche of a play. It's clearly autobiographical,... More >>

• Something to Learn

  published June 5, 2003

  The Bas Bleu Theatre Company stands in the heart of Fort Collins's old town, a pleasant collection of galleries, eateries and shops that is less... More >>

• Apocalypse Now and Then

  published June 5, 2003

  In staging The War Plays, Promethean Theatre is trying to open a dialogue about the causes of war and its horrors. This is a good... More >>

• It All Adds Up

  published May 29, 2003

  avid Auburn's Pulitzer-winning play, Proof, has been much discussed and debated, both in the United States and in London, where... More >>