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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2010 Stories by Juliet Wittman

• Vintage Theatre gets edgy for the holidays

  published December 23, 2010

  December holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Solstice are forced to make their case to a bureaucrat intent on streamlining the... More >>

• Now Playing

  published December 23, 2010

  Hello, Dolly! You're looking for a warm, lively, music-filled, sweetly sentimental holiday season show — but you've had it up to... More >>

• Top Chef All-Stars, third course: Two eliminations

  published Dec 17, 2010

  In the film Dinner Rush -- a terrific indie that everyone should see -- the trendy young chef prepares a dish for an influential critic, played by Sandra Bernhard. We see him in the kitchen franticall... More >>

• CSF's A Christmas Carol cuts the glitz, puts the focus on Dickens's words

  published December 16, 2010

  Though I've managed to skip all Sugarplums, Scrooges and Child's Christmases this year, I couldn't avoid the Colorado... More >>

• Now Playing

  published December 16, 2010

  Dixie's Tupperware Party. Dixie is a booze- and sex-addicted, trash-talking, child-neglecting ex-con from Alabama who holds Tupperware... More >>

• Top Chef All-Stars, second course: Is Jen a dinosaurr

  published Dec 09, 2010

  Jennifer Carroll's meltdown when she got eliminated from last night's episode of Top Chef All-Stars was spectacular. She was graceless, almost out of control, so angry she clearly didn't know whether ... More >>

• Dixie loves booze, sex and Tupperware, and we love Dixie

  published December 9, 2010

  Dixie is a booze- and sex-addicted, trash-talking, child-neglecting ex-con from Alabama who holds Tupperware parties in her trailer, and she's... More >>

• Kelly Liken cooks up her winning Top Chef pork carnitas for a cause

  published Dec 07, 2010

  One of the most frustrating things for Top Chef fanatics is that we never get to taste -- or appraise -- the winning dishes. But now Vail's Kelly Liken, one of the past season's finalists, is making ... More >>

• Top Chef All-Stars, round one: Back for more

  published Dec 02, 2010

  Top Chef All-Stars back contestants from past seasons -- most of them finalists -- and promises to be quite a bit meatier than the regular Top Chef. For one thing, we don't have to spend the first f... More >>

• Hello, Dolly! is a warm and lively holiday show without the Santas or Tiny Tims

  published December 2, 2010

  You're looking for a warm, lively, sweetly sentimental holiday-season show, but you've had it up to here with Santas and Tiny Tims, as well as... More >>

• Now Playing

  published December 2, 2010

  Astronomical Sunset. Jim is a man destroyed by guilt because a social-networking site he created led to...actually, it's not quite clear... More >>

• Themes of family and loss underscore the dark comedy of Reckless

  published November 25, 2010

  Rachel, a housewife, is having what she characterizes as "one of my euphoria attacks," babbling ecstatically to her depressed husband, Tom,... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 25, 2010

  Astronomical Sunset. Jim is a man destroyed by guilt because a social-networking site he created led to...actually, it's not quite clear... More >>

• Top Chef: Just Desserts: The icing on the cake

  published Nov 18, 2010

  It's nice when contests end the way they should. Of the three finalists, Morgan is the master technician, cool and generally unflappable, and Danielle is strong on taste, not quite as strong on finess... More >>

• Sadly, Band of Toughs' Finders Keepers is not a keeper

  published November 18, 2010

  The Band of Toughs — formerly the Aluminous Collective, which distinguished itself with an excellent production of Charles Mee's Big... More >>

• Paragon's W(hole) is more than just a sum of its parts

  published November 18, 2010

  In Milton's Paradise Lost, Satan tends to steal God's thunder; as depicted, he's much more interesting than the Creator. The same is... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 18, 2010

  Astronomical Sunset. Jim is a man destroyed by guilt because a social-networking site he created led to...actually, it's not quite clear... More >>

• Top Chef Just Desserts: Have your cake and eat it, too

  published Nov 11, 2010

  And then there were three ... Yigit tried too hard, Morgan didn't try hard enough, Zac pretty much gave up and turned his failed 61st anniversary cake into a messy kids' romp at the beach. And Dani... More >>

• Boulder Dinner Theatre's Shout is something to yell about

  published November 11, 2010

  The 1960s of Shout isn't the era of revolution for the hell of it, wild and woolly locks, tie-dye, raucous pleasure, ragged... More >>

• Brian Landis Folkins's performance in Astronomical Sunset holds it all together

  published November 11, 2010

  All first-rate actors are first-rate in completely different ways, and Brian Landis Folkins is no exception. He doesn't have a highly defined... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 11, 2010

  The 39 Steps. This show is uninhibitedly silly — a take-off on a 1930s Hitchcock film, which itself was based on a novel by John... More >>

• Top Chef Just Desserts , round eight: CelebriTea sweepstakes

  published Nov 04, 2010

  I really like this batch of contestants on Top Chef Just Desserts -- well, perhaps not "I focus on me" Morgan, who does seem to be a bully in the kitchen -- and also the general dynamic among them. Se... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 4, 2010

  The Container. There's a little uneasiness before production begins, a shuffle for the restrooms, some groping in purses for water... More >>

• The Container reminds us that immigrants are people, too

  published October 28, 2010

  There's a little uneasiness before The Container starts: a shuffle for the restrooms, some groping in purses for water bottles.... More >>

• Now Playing

  published October 28, 2010

  The 39 Steps. This show is uninhibitedly silly — a take-off on a 1930s Hitchcock film, which itself was based on a novel by John... More >>