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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2006 Stories by Juliet Wittman

• Dear Diary

  published May 25, 2006

  The first scene of Fiction pulls off a telling bit of trickery. Two people argue and banter over espressos in a Paris cafe. Playful,... More >>

• A Cut Above

  published May 18, 2006

  To be buried while alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of these extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality. That it... More >>

• Battle Cry

  published May 18, 2006

  A collection of monologues about the Iraq War based on the experiences of men who fought there, Sand Storm is raw and upsetting, but... More >>

• Take Note

  published May 11, 2006

  I'm sitting at a small table at Boulder's Dinner Theatre with my friend Robin Haig. A one-time dancer with the Royal Ballet, Robin has just... More >>

• Resurrection

  published May 11, 2006

  Dear God, but I am sick of Death of a Salesman, which I've now had to see three times in the past year. Despite the play's... More >>

• The Hard Cell

  published May 4, 2006

  The death penalty is an obscenity in itself, and the ways in which it's applied are equally vile: the endless waiting on death row, where... More >>

• Held in Check

  published May 4, 2006

  There was a moment in Chess that undid me completely. It occurred when the heroine, Florence, met the man she believed to be her... More >>

• Good Grief

  published April 27, 2006

  The most interesting character in After Ashley disappears after the first scene. This is Ashley herself, whom we meet while she's... More >>

• Signifying Something

  published April 27, 2006

  The United States could recover from an all-out nuclear war with the Soviet Union in just two to four years.... Nuclear war is not nearly as... More >>

• Skimming the Surface

  published April 20, 2006

  Quartermaine¹s Terms simply refuses to come to life. In fact, from the current Germinal Stage production, I can't quite figure... More >>

• Couples' Dance

  published April 20, 2006

  I've been dancing around this conclusion, trying to find a way to put it more tactfully, but I can't: Waitin¹ 2 End Hell is a... More >>

• Ticket to Ride

  published April 13, 2006

  Private Eyes is a very smart play. For a while I tormented myself trying to decipher the plot, but I couldn't do it. Some critics... More >>

• Spit and Polish

  published April 13, 2006

  The first act of Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House is about as perfect a piece of theater as I can imagine. On a stunningly evocative,... More >>

• Blithe Spirit

  published April 6, 2006

  "Poor Wandering One" is among the loveliest of Gilbert and Sullivan's many lovely melodies, but you haven't really lived until you've heard... More >>

• Nipped in the Bud

  published April 6, 2006

  At the end of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt was the grande dame of French theater and Eleonora Duse her Italian counterpart. The two... More >>

• Dreamy

  published March 30, 2006

  Although Man of La Mancha first opened in New York in 1965, I'd somehow managed to go all these years without seeing it. I had heard... More >>

• Read It and Weep

  published March 30, 2006

  Watching television with Isabelle, my crinkly-haired, adventurous, lemon-curd-loving Belgian anthropologist friend, was always a hoot. I'd... More >>

• Crushed

  published March 16, 2006

  There's nothing more romantic than being young and in love in New York City, walking together along the worn, sooty streets touched by that... More >>

• Blood and Gutless

  published March 16, 2006

  There has been a great deal of excitement around The War Anthology, which began when Curious Theatre Company artistic director Chip... More >>

• Slow Fade

  published March 9, 2006

  Some time ago, I met Kathleen Widdoes at a writers' conference in Prague. Most people who recognize the name at all know Widdoes from her role on... More >>

• A Shore Bet

  published March 9, 2006

  Imagine you're at an unnamed beach, surrounded by sand, salt-laden air and the sound of the sea rolling endlessly in and out, everything around... More >>

• The Evil That Men Do

  published March 2, 2006

  As the Bush administration moves America toward a permanent state of war against an undefined and therefore unconquerable enemy -- war that is... More >>

• Murder, She Wrote

  published February 23, 2006

  There's not much depth to The Smell of the Kill, but it's wonderfully malicious and a lot funnier than any of the sketch comedy I've... More >>

• Being and Nothingness

  published February 23, 2006

  The setting is the living room of Tobias and Agnes, a wealthy East Coast couple, and the play is a twisted descendent of the classic drawing-room... More >>

• Hit and Miss

  published February 16, 2006

  In some of the skits, the material is funnier than the execution; in others, the execution is better than the material. Overall, Red... More >>