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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2008 Stories by Juliet Wittman

• The ghosts of Dylan Thomas's Christmases past

  published December 25, 2008

  Under new artistic director Philip C. Sneed, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival offered A Child's Christmas in Wales last year.... More >>

• Gary Culig says so long to The SantaLand Diaries

  published December 18, 2008

  Gary Culig has been playing the reluctant Macy's elf, Crumpet, in The SantaLand Diaries at the Bug for the last decade; there are... More >>

• Now Playing

  published December 18, 2008

  An O. Henry Christmas. Amid the cascade of Christmas Carol remounts, Hallmark Card family shows and limp holiday parodies, this... More >>

• Theatre 13's Art takes a critical look at the meaning of friendship

  published December 11, 2008

  I saw Yasmina Reza's Art soon after it came out, on a visit to London with my daughter, Anna. Afterward, standing on the platform... More >>

• Now Playing

  published December 11, 2008

  An O. Henry Christmas. Amid the cascade of Christmas Carol remounts, Hallmark Card family shows and limp holiday parodies, this... More >>

• The Producers sticks a thumb in Hitler's eye

  published December 4, 2008

  I saw the Broadway version of The Producers when the touring company came to Denver four years ago. It was one of those shows you... More >>

• Now Playing

  published December 4, 2008

  An O. Henry Christmas. Amid the cascade of Christmas Carol remounts, Hallmark Card family shows and limp holiday parodies, this... More >>

• Germinal Stage makes an off-choice with The Show-Off

  published November 27, 2008

  Sometimes I don't understand the decision-making at Germinal Stage Denver. I've had some of the most stimulating evenings of my life in this... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 27, 2008

  An O. Henry Christmas. Amid the cascade of Christmas Carol remounts, Hallmark Card family shows and limp holiday parodies, this... More >>

• With Anywhere But Rome, Buntport is really going somewhere

  published November 20, 2008

  Ovid, otherwise known as Publius, has been banished from Rome and is traveling with Tiresias, standing at a crossroads, sticking out his thumb.... More >>

• An O. Henry Christmas takes you on a sentimental journey

  published November 20, 2008

  Amid the cascade of Christmas Carol remounts, Hallmark family shows and limp holiday parodies, Peter Ekstrom's An O. Henry... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 20, 2008

  Fat Pig. Neil LaBute's plays are nasty, but they usually contain subtext, irony and ambiguity. Fat Pig has none of these. It's... More >>

• Stephen Karam speaks up for misfits in Curious Theatre's Speech & Debate

  published November 13, 2008

  Three misfit high school students in Salem, Oregon, come together on the debate society. Solomon longs to be a professional reporter and wants... More >>

• Neil LaBute's Fat Pig is no big deal

  published November 6, 2008

  Playwright Neil LaBute is a king of nasty, but I've also always thought of him as tough-minded, daring and original. Now that I've seen... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 6, 2008

  Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience... More >>

• The Glass Menagerie is handled with care by Paragon Theatre.

  published October 30, 2008

  During intermission at The Glass Menagerie, I encountered a very beautiful girl in the ladies' room — dark-haired, pale,... More >>

• The Heritage Square crew delivers biting comedy

  published October 30, 2008

  The gang at Heritage Square Music Hall has invented a form of theater entirely its own — a combination of scripted and improvised lines,... More >>

• Capsule reviews of current shows

  published October 23, 2008

  Les Misérables. This huge, sprawling musical is based on Victor Hugo's novel, and the plot centers on the merciless pursuit of a... More >>

• November is a thin but amusing satire that gives hell to the chief executive

  published October 23, 2008

  It's a few days before the election, and Charles Smith, the sitting president, is hoping for a second term. Trouble is, his poll numbers are in... More >>

• Glengarry Glen Ross has a lot to say — and a sizzling way of saying it

  published October 23, 2008

  David Mamet wrote Glengarry Glen Ross more than twenty years ago, but this study of unscrupulous salesmen pitching worthless... More >>

• Noises Off has laughs, but fails to take farce to a deeper level

  published October 16, 2008

  Michael Frayn's brilliant Noises Off is one of the cleverest, funniest farces ever written. This is a play within a play —... More >>

• Capsule reviews of current shows

  published October 16, 2008

  Braided Sorrow. No one knows exactly how many young women have been murdered in the Mexican border town of Juárez over the last... More >>

• The Trip to Bountiful starts slow but is worth the trek

  published October 9, 2008

  I was so bored during the first act of The Trip to Bountiful that I had trouble staying in my seat — and this despite a... More >>

• Mediamockracy takes aim at the politics of the news business

  published October 9, 2008

  Although there was only a small audience for Listen Productions' Mediamockracy on the night I attended, its members were... More >>

• Now Playing

  published October 9, 2008

  Braided Sorrow. No one knows exactly how many young women have been murdered in the Mexican border town of Juárez over the last... More >>