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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2005 Stories by Juliet Wittman

• Popera Songs Are Forgettable

  published December 22, 2005

  There are two things to be said about this production of Aida, a rock-pop version of the Verdi opera with music by Elton John and... More >>

• A Body of Art

  published December 15, 2005

  The best scene in The Credeaux Canvas, the first offering of the new Identity Theatre Company, is an extended nude scene, in which a... More >>

• Carol Peril

  published December 15, 2005

  Everyone knows the story of Scrooge's conversion from hard-eyed businessman to philanthropist in A Christmas Carol. Tiny Tim's incantation,... More >>

• Change Can Be Strange

  published December 8, 2005

  Even for good institutions, change is necessary. The Laird Williamson-Dennis Powers adaptation of A Christmas Carol has been staged... More >>

• Death Rattles

  published December 8, 2005

  There's a sad and bitter scene that occurred many years ago when my mother was dying of cancer that seems to illustrate precisely the conundrum at... More >>

• Not So Bon Mots

  published December 1, 2005

  Shadowlands, currently being produced by Bas Bleu, is a dignified, classy play, but for the most part, it's oddly lifeless. Set in... More >>

• Mystic Murkiness

  published November 24, 2005

  I don't know how to assess John Orlock's Indulgences in the Louisville Harem, currently playing at Germinal Stage Denver, because I... More >>

• Room Without a View

  published November 17, 2005

  Theatre 13 is a new Boulder company that occupies the small upstairs theater space at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art -- previously a venue... More >>

• Layman's Lyrics

  published November 17, 2005

  Party of 1 offers a very pleasant way to spend an evening. It's a good play to go to with a date, or to attend in hopes of finding... More >>

• Songs Triumph

  published November 10, 2005

  Boulder's Dinner Theatre frequently transcends expectations, offering shows far better than the usual dinner-theater fare. There's a lot of talent... More >>

• Exterminating Love

  published November 10, 2005

  At the beginning, Bug seems hyper-realistic. We're shown a drink- and drug-addled woman, Agnes, living in a motel room on the... More >>

• A Bad Fit

  published November 3, 2005

  What a disappointment! Kent Thompson began his tenure as artistic director of the Denver Center Theatre Company with a terrific production of... More >>

• Mind Puppetry

  published November 3, 2005

  Buntport's Horror: The Transformation is based on Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, a novel published in 1798, and inspired... More >>

• Organ Music

  published October 27, 2005

  No false advertising here: The show's about naked boys singing. The real thing. The full monty. Seven of them, some younger, some a little older,... More >>

• Love's Labors

  published October 27, 2005

  It's amazing, really, the amount of sheer hard work and the level of perfectionism required to keep this bright bouncing balloon of a farce aloft.... More >>

• Beyond Belief

  published October 20, 2005

  The seven founders -- and also writer-designer-director-performers -- of Buntport Theater are exploring new territory. Known for a prankish and... More >>

• Near Myth

  published October 13, 2005

  For this ambitious production, Su Teatro artistic director Anthony J. Garcia has transposed the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to modern-day... More >>

• Writer's Blockade

  published October 13, 2005

  I'm not the best audience for a scary show. At the movies, I cover my eyes during the gory parts. I also find that, for the most part, the real... More >>

• A World Apartheid

  published October 6, 2005

  Athol Fugard's Master Harold and the Boys takes place in a teahouse in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, during the time of apartheid.... More >>

• DCTC Explores All My Sons

  published September 29, 2005

  Written in 1947, Arthur Miller's All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a businessman who knowingly sold defective plane-engine... More >>

• Just Stomp It!

  published September 29, 2005

  Five terrific performers and a slate of Fats Waller songs. How can you go wrong? I know that Ain't Misbehavin', a jazzy, bluesy... More >>

• A Look Back in Time

  published September 29, 2005

  More than a decade ago, I attended a production at the Gaslight, a theater in the basement of a beautiful Victorian house in northwest Denver. The... More >>

• The Communicator

  published September 22, 2005

  The Denver Center Theatre Company is beginning its first season under new artistic director Kent Thompson, former director of the Alabama... More >>

• Class Act

  published September 22, 2005

  As a reviewer, I see a lot of theater productions, and it's rare for me to want to see one for a second time. But Germinal Stage Denver has more... More >>

• An Everywoman's Tale

  published September 22, 2005

  At the center of Lynn Nottage's gentle, appealing play, Intimate Apparel, is the figure of Esther, a black woman in her thirties... More >>