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

• Dictator's Folly

  published May 29, 2003

  Some aspects of dictatorship -- at least of certain kinds of dictatorship -- are irresistibly funny. This has to do with what happens when a man... More >>

• Backstage Pass

  published May 22, 2003

  Terry Dodd's First Night or Whatever was commissioned to be the first play performed in the Byron Theatre at the University of... More >>

• Something's Funny

  published May 22, 2003

  The Denver Center Theatre Company's Scapin or the Con Artist is such an intelligent, lively, tasteful production. Nagle Jackson's... More >>

• City of Angles

  published May 15, 2003

  I can't tell you how uncomfortable I was watching Brooklyn: The Musical, and how embarrassed. Embarrassed at having to witness this... More >>

• Singing in the Brain

  published May 15, 2003

  Ruthless! The Musical utilizes themes, quotes and various bits and pieces from All About Eve, The Bad Seed,... More >>

• Brit Wit

  published May 8, 2003

  After twenty minutes or so of watching Relatively Speaking, I stopped taking notes and began laughing. Out loud and several times.... More >>

• Questionable Redemption

  published May 8, 2003

  It's hard to fathom what the Holocaust means now, used for political leverage and simplified into totemic symbols that short-circuit thought. The... More >>

• Saps Rising

  published May 1, 2003

  It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green cornfield did pass In... More >>

• How the West Was Fun

  published April 24, 2003

  Sure, we have one of the best jobs in the universe, but sometimes theater critics get tired. Tired of gut-wrenchingly deep performances and slick,... More >>

• Southern Discomfort

  published April 24, 2003

  I'm not much for American rural -- slack-tongued accents, flat Coke, screen doors and heat, the heart-numbing sameness of daily life -- and I tend... More >>

• Tough Toque

  published April 17, 2003

  Cooking School of the Rockies teacher Jason Aili is talking about the upcoming Battle of the Chefs contest between him and the Vesta... More >>

• No Victory

  published April 17, 2003

  Victor/Victoria, which made its first appearance in 1982 as a movie starring Robert Preston and Julie Andrews, was daring in its... More >>

• Women of Courage

  published April 17, 2003

  It's hard to know what there is left to say about the Holocaust. Or how one begins to evoke its horror on stage. The concentration camps have... More >>

• Sour Notes

  published April 10, 2003

  The music is nice, and the two actors play the piano amazingly well, but in all honesty, the Denver Center Theatre Company production of 2... More >>

• Spaced Out

  published April 3, 2003

  Bovine Metropolis Theater stands where the Changing Scene -- whose hallmark was an intense vitality -- stood for over three decades, until the... More >>

• Truth or Dare

  published April 3, 2003

  I first saw Michael Frayn's Copenhagen in London a few years ago. I remember leaving the theater feeling light-headed and... More >>

• Snappy Tapping

  published March 27, 2003

  Savion Glover, choreographer and star of Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in' da Funk, has been called the best tap dancer alive. His work... More >>

• Real Music History

  published March 20, 2003

  Facing a budget shortfall for the last production of his Shadow Theatre Company's sixth season, artistic director Jeffrey Nickelson decided to... More >>

• Map Happy

  published March 20, 2003

  The choice of a journey often deserves a writer's attention quite as much as the journey itself. Travel, like dreaming, is a form of emotional... More >>

• Robot Seriously

  published March 13, 2003

  Comic Potential, now at the Aurora Fox, takes flight on the performance of Jessica Austgen as robot JCF 31333 -- or Jacie... More >>

• Call a Doctor

  published March 6, 2003

  I know times are tight, but this won't do. Watching Saturday Night Fever at the Buell, it was hard to remember that the auditorium... More >>

• Svich Hunt

  published March 6, 2003

  I don't know about you, but I worry when I read this kind of thing in the notes a theater provides about a playwright -- in this case, Caridad... More >>

• Pigs Rule

  published February 27, 2003

  George Orwell's reputation has been a little clouded of late. For decades after his death, he was seen as a kind of secular saint, a truth teller,... More >>

• Popped Culture

  published February 27, 2003

  The violence wrought by the Manson family continues to hold our imagination. There's something about the confluence of evil, pop culture (the best... More >>

• Raising Canine

  published February 20, 2003

  Sylvia is about a middle-aged man, mildly depressed by his companionably routine marriage and meaningless job, who finds a stray pup... More >>