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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2007 Stories by Juliet Wittman

• Now Playing

  published April 19, 2007

  A House With No Walls. There's a special category of pundit: the black conservative, those darlings of the Republican Party who profit... More >>

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  published April 19, 2007

  This is one ugly family gathered in Big Daddy's Mississippi Delta home to celebrate the patriarch's 65th birthday, and almost everyone in... More >>

• The Sweetest Swing in Baseball

  published April 19, 2007

  Most fictional characters in mental institutions struggle to get out, but when Dana Fielding, the artist-protagonist of The Sweetest Swing... More >>

• Pure Confidence

  published April 12, 2007

  Though it has sad and even bitter undertones, Pure Confidence is essentially a comedy. The central figure is one we recognize from... More >>

• Moby Dick Unread

  published April 12, 2007

  One of the perils of an English education is that it leaves gaps. While I and any of my old school friends could discuss Shaw, Shakespeare, Jane... More >>

• Now Playing

  published April 5, 2007

  A House With No Walls. There's a special category of pundit: the black conservative, those darlings of the Republican Party who profit... More >>

• Mrs. Warren's Profession

  published April 5, 2007

  Although it's filled with George Bernard Shaw's usual spot-on analysis, as well as a fair share of his parody and wit, Mrs. Warren¹s... More >>

• The Light in the Piazza

  published April 5, 2007

  As I watched The Light in the Piazza, I momentarily stopped being a critic. I didn't try to assess what I was seeing; I just sat... More >>

• Frame 312

  published March 22, 2007

  The premise of Frame 312 should be fascinating. Playwright Keith Reddin postulates that the 22-second Abraham Zapruder film of John... More >>

• Ragtime

  published March 22, 2007

  It feels as if Boulder's Dinner Theatre has opened the doors and let in a great whoosh of invigorating air. Sure, the blocky old interior is the... More >>

• Now Playing

  published March 15, 2007

  The Perfect Party. Tony, the protagonist, is a middle-aged professor, steeped in American history and literature. He has quit his job in... More >>

• A House With No Walls

  published March 15, 2007

  Issues of race in America are so intensely fraught, convoluted, personalized and wrapped in ego, self-righteousness, guilt, rage, self-pity,... More >>

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  published March 8, 2007

  Realism doesn't work with Tennessee Williams, nor do most kinds of stylization. His work requires a passionate, heightened, over-the-top... More >>

• Now Playing

  published March 1, 2007

  Clue: the Musical. The pleasure of this Country Dinner Playhouse production of Clue: the Musical is that it boasts a truly... More >>

• Two Trains Running

  published March 1, 2007

  I know that August Wilson is a great playwright in the same way I know that Notre Dame is a majestic cathedral, but whenever I re-encounter his... More >>

• Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune

  published March 1, 2007

  I've been worrying about Frankie and Johnny all day, trying to figure out whether or not they'll stay together. Which is odd, because they're a... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 22, 2007

  Aphrodisiac. Playwright Rob Handel's inspiration is the affair between Congressman Gary Condit and intern Chandra Levy, which erupted into... More >>

• The Perfect Party

  published February 22, 2007

  A.R. Gurney is both a gentle man and a gentleman. He's the product of an upper-crust WASP family, an echelon of society he's delineated with... More >>

• Diversions and Delights

  published February 22, 2007

  In Diversions and Delights, Germinal Stage actor-director Ed Baierlein gives us a broken Oscar Wilde. The man who delighted in... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 15, 2007

  Aphrodisiac. Playwright Rob Handel's inspiration is the affair between Congressman Gary Condit and intern Chandra Levy, which erupted into... More >>

• Bad Dates

  published February 15, 2007

  Bad Dates has the familiar feel of a long night spent with a girlfriend after she's suffered a breakup, one of those nights when you... More >>

• King Lear

  published February 15, 2007

  For King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare's bleakest tragedy, Denver Center Theatre Company artistic director Kent Thompson has the... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 8, 2007

  Aphrodisiac. Playwright Rob Handel's inspiration is the affair between Congressman Gary Condit and intern Chandra Levy, which erupted into... More >>

• Pure Piaf

  published February 8, 2007

  Edith Piaf, the French chanteuse her countrymen lovingly dubbed "The Little Sparrow," died long before I had a chance to see her on stage. But I... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 1, 2007

  Aphrodisiac. Playwright Rob Handel's inspiration is the affair between Congressman Gary Condit and intern Chandra Levy, which erupted into... More >>