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

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  FEATURED STORY

  Top Chef Just Desserts, round six: All in black and white

  published Oct 21, 2010

  This week's Quickfire challenge was to make desserts using savory ingredients and -- the really hard part -- only one pot. "I'm used to having all these fancy little tools," mourned Zac, while Morgan,... More >>

• In an era of Twilight and True Blood, Charles Morey's Dracula is a straightforward rendition, and a bit of a slog

  published October 21, 2010

  Vampires are trendy right now, but they've been around in one form or another — seductive, repellent, take your pick — for... More >>

• Woman and Scarecrow is far more mesmerizing than depressing

  published October 21, 2010

  Marina Carr's Woman and Scarecrow is about the impending death of a character she calls Woman, a woman of spirit and passion... More >>

• Now Playing

  published October 21, 2010

  Art. Yasmina Reza's cool, witty, much-celebrated and much-performed play is ostensibly about art, but it's more about friendship. At the... More >>

• Top Chef Just Desserts, round five: Dress for excess

  published Oct 14, 2010

  The very wealthy have played around with their food for centuries. Think of those crazy medieval dishes: real birds baked into pies, swans stuffed with edibles and brought to the table dressed in thei... More >>

• Now Playing

  published October 14, 2010

  Art. Yasmina Reza's cool, witty, much-celebrated and much-performed play is ostensibly about art, but it's more about friendship. At the... More >>

• American adaptation of France's The Ladies Man is a magnum farce

  published October 14, 2010

  Charles Morey adapted The Ladies Man from a farce by Feydeau — pretty loosely, by Morey's own account. In the original,... More >>

• There's torture, but The House of the Spirits isn't torturous

  published October 14, 2010

  The power of The House of the Spirits, playwright Caridad Svich's take on Isabel Allende's celebrated novel, lies in the... More >>

• Now Playing

  published October 7, 2010

  Art. Yasmina Reza's cool, witty, much-celebrated and much-performed play is ostensibly about art, but it's more about friendship. At the... More >>

• This version of The 39 Steps is an uninhibited romp

  published October 7, 2010

  The 39 Steps is uninhibitedly silly — a romp, a trifle, a takeoff on a 1930s Hitchcock film (which, in turn, was based on a... More >>

• Brilliant imagery saves a script that falls short in Hot + Wax

  published October 7, 2010

  There's far more playing area than there is room for the audience: We're seated on a few rows of chairs at each end of the space, while the... More >>

• Melancholy and stolen ice: Buntport to throw a fundraiser for Kafka on Ice

  published Oct 01, 2010

  Only Buntport would think of putting a play about the melancholy Czech author Franz Kafka -- his biography intertwined with scenes from his story, Metamorphosis, about the man who woke up to find he'd... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Kelly Liken's pork carnitas tacos are designed for kids -- but wowed adult judges

  published Oct 01, 2010

  Kelly Liken, chef/owner of Restaurant Kelly Liken and one of the top-four contenders in this year's Top Chef DC, likes shallots. "I put them in almost everything," she says in this week's Chef and Tel... More >>

• Top Chef Just Desserts: That's the way the cookie crumbles

  published Oct 01, 2010

  I'm enjoying Just Desserts more than I enjoyed the regular Top Chef, though in many ways I'm more interested in savory food than dessert. Although the Dessert contestants are pretty high-octane, they'... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Part two: Chef and Tell with Kelly Liken of Restaurant Kelly Liken

  published Sep 30, 2010

  This is part two of Juliet Wittman's Q&A with Kelly Liken, chef/owner of Restaurant Kelly Liken. To read part one of that interview, click here. Kelly Liken Restaurant Kelly Liken 12 Vail Road, Vai... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Kelly Liken didn't win Top Chef DC, but she's at the top of her game

  published Sep 29, 2010

  This is part one of Juliet Wittman's interview with Kelly Liken of Restaurant Kelly Liken. Read part two of the Kelly Liken interview here. Kelly Liken Restaurant Kelly Liken 12 Vail Road, Vail 970-... More >>

• Cavalia is a sensory experience and a galloping triumph

  published September 30, 2010

  I'd been enjoying Cavalia all along, but the moment that won me over completely came during the second act, in a piece called... More >>

• Despite its cuteness, Dead Man's Cell Phone fascinates throughout

  published September 30, 2010

  I wasn't interested in the discussion about the uses and abuses of cell phones in Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone. To begin... More >>

• Top Chef Just Desserts: Nice guys don't finish first

  published Sep 23, 2010

  Dessert's a funny thing in fancy restaurants these days. No more slices of cherry tart, chocolate cake or apple strudel unless they're miniatures, deconstructed, flavored with something incongruous li... More >>

• Kelly Liken returns for tonight's Top Chef reunion episode

  published Sep 22, 2010

  We'll be seeing Vail's Kelly Liken at the Top Chef Reunion tonight. Kelly was among the four finalists who went to Singapore, then was sent home in the penultimate episode -- but not before cooking ma... More >>

• The floor gets very wet in Moby Dick Unread

  published September 23, 2010

  When I first attended a Buntport Theater Company production and found six people in the audience — myself and my friend two of them... More >>

• Top Chef DC, round 14: Kevin wins!

  published Sep 16, 2010

  "Kevin, you are Top Chef," Padma announced, and a stunned Kevin responded, "I amr" I was happy with the outcome of this seventh season of Top Chef -- but I would have been equally pleased had Ang... More >>

• Buntport Theater's Moby Dick Unread benefit goes to a water-bound cause

  published Sep 14, 2010

  Buntport -- Denver's funniest, cleverest, most low-key and least pretentious theater company -- sets aside a benefit night for every production, usually to help a deserving local organization. Fitting... More >>

• Art is more about friendship than art

  published September 16, 2010

  Yasmina Reza's cool, witty, much-celebrated and much-performed play is ostensibly about art, but it's more about friendship. At the center of... More >>

• Top Chef D.C., round thirteen: Kelly's headed back to Colorado

  published Sep 09, 2010

  Hometown girl Kelly is headed home. The setting for this penultimate episode of Top Chef was Singapore, which ginned up the interest level quite a bit. It was fun watching the four remaining contender... More >>