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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2004 Stories by Juliet Wittman

• Making a List

  published September 9, 2004

  Dalton Trumbo was a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of writers whose careers were ruined during the McCarthy era because they stood up to the... More >>

• Black and White Divide

  published September 9, 2004

  At the beginning of Three Ways Home, currently being produced by the Shadow Theatre Company, Sharon, a white career woman, has... More >>

• Almost There

  published September 2, 2004

  OpenStage Theatre & Company in Fort Collins always walks a thin line between professional and community theater, and this production of The... More >>

• Audience Pleasers

  published September 2, 2004

  For its 2nd Annual Summer One-Act Festival, Miners Alley has put together two one-acts about the dramatic process itself. They're witty,... More >>

• A Critic's View

  published August 26, 2004

  I was sorry when I heard that Denver actor Brett Aune was leaving his home town to try his fortune in Los Angeles. Aune, who departed last week,... More >>

• Industrial Strength

  published August 19, 2004

  A year or two ago, the Industrial Arts Theatre Company took over an old movie house on Federal Boulevard. It's always a good thing when artists... More >>

• Wrong Direction

  published August 19, 2004

  Bovine Metropolis is a fine, cozy venue, the people who run it are lively and friendly, and I've seen good comedy there. But The Mammas &... More >>

• No Hot Flash in the Pan

  published August 12, 2004

  Menopause The Musical is as much a phenomenon as a piece of theater. As my friend and I entered the New Denver Civic Theatre, we... More >>

• Fresh Err

  published August 12, 2004

  Of this summer's three productions, The Comedy of Errors is the one most in tune with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's slogan,... More >>

• A Simple Tale, Well-Told

  published August 5, 2004

  Jules Massenet's The Juggler of Notre Dame (Le Jongleur de Notre Dame) was first performed in 1902, and until Central City Opera took it on, it... More >>

• Class Dismissed

  published July 29, 2004

  I suppose if I'd done my homework, I'd have been less disappointed by Central City Opera's production of The Student Prince. Other... More >>

• A Pain in the Asp

  published July 22, 2004

  I'd like to write one of those judicious "on the one hand this, on the other hand that" reviews of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's... More >>

• Dark, Yet Moving

  published July 15, 2004

  There's the occasional salacious gesture in Cabaret, a vanishing flash of naked butt, a blurring of sexual "isms" -- homo, tran,... More >>

• Timely, Sometimes

  published July 15, 2004

  Joel Fink's Romeo and Juliet at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival could have been called The Nurse and Mercutio Show, because... More >>

• Angels We Have Heard

  published July 8, 2004

  There are a lot of people who wouldn't dream of attending an opera. They think of operas as outdated, frequented by the old, rich and... More >>

• Unenchanted Evening

  published July 8, 2004

  South Pacific is so filled with terrific music -- beautiful love songs like "Some Enchanted Evening," "This Nearly Was Mine" and the... More >>

• Comic Retrospective

  published July 1, 2004

  George Burns, having just died, finds himself in limbo. To enter heaven and reunite with his professional partner and beloved wife, Gracie Allen,... More >>

• Amazing Bloom

  published July 1, 2004

  My reaction to Germinal Stage's "Circe" -- Chapter Fifteen was a lot like my reaction to James Joyce's Ulysses in general. It... More >>

• Shades of Meaning

  published June 24, 2004

  Racism is a common topic in theater, but before attending Dael Orlandersmith's lacerating Yellowman, I had never seen a play that... More >>

• Intellect Connects

  published June 24, 2004

  Robert Dubac is currently workshopping Inside the Male Intellect (TV. 10.0) at Rattlebrain Theater because he's about to tape it for... More >>

• No Small Change

  published June 17, 2004

  I used to evoke a lot of laughter and derision from erudite friends and from my writing students by telling them about my passion for Buffy the... More >>

• Soar Points

  published June 17, 2004

  Again and again, Cirque du Soleil's Varekai puts you in that state of enjoyment where you're not even capable of thought; you're... More >>

• High School Confidential

  published June 10, 2004

  I was worried as I settled down to watch Born to Be Loud. I'd invited a 26-year-old friend along, and I couldn't help noticing that... More >>

• Woman Power

  published June 10, 2004

  I enjoyed Tracy Shaffer Witherspoon's Saints and Hysterics, currently being presented by the Paragon Theatre Company; I found myself... More >>

• Rock On

  published June 3, 2004

  Some people think of critics as the artistic equivalent of meat inspectors; they see our job as going from place to place stamping performances as... More >>