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

• Now Playing

  published September 9, 2010

  Garage Sale Loud: This Is It. Almost every summer, the folks at Heritage Square stage what is essentially a musical review with a thin... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Top Chef, D.C., round twelve: Out of this world!

  published Sep 03, 2010

  Tiffany got sent home from Top Chef this week. I was a little distressed when Arnold was told to pack his knives a few episodes back, because his problems were the fault of mean-spirited Lynne, and al... More >>

• Curious Theatre's new grant could be a boon for local actors

  published Sep 02, 2010

  Resident theater companies have been on their way out for decades. One of the last was at the Denver Center under Donovan Marley, whose loyalty to his company meant that first-rate actors could actual... More >>

• Puff piece: Reefer Madness on stage at the Bug Theater

  published September 2, 2010

  Reefer Madness is a take-off on a legendary 1930s movie about the dangers of marijuana — a black-and-white film, shadowy... More >>

• Top Chef takes the cake at Emmy awards

  published Aug 30, 2010

  A lot of my irritation with Top Chef DC is the rage of a spurned lover. I've been watching, mesmerized, since the beginning of the show, but this season the gimmicks seem cheesier, the judges smugger,... More >>

• Top Chef D.C., round eleven: dumb challenges, sausagey fingers and "affluencers"

  published Aug 26, 2010

  It's time to put Top Chef out of its misery. At this point the show has deteriorated so wretchedly that half the time I forget to watch and have to play catch-up later. I didn't find myself rooting fo... More >>

• Now Playing

  published August 26, 2010

  Garage Sale Loud: This Is It. Almost every summer, the folks at Heritage Square stage what is essentially a musical review with a thin... More >>

• Fringe benefits: Boulder Fringe Festival offers intriguing productions

  published August 26, 2010

  Since most of us cherish the romantic idea that true artists exist outside the mainstream, we're intrigued by projects like the Boulder... More >>

• Top Chef D.C, round ten: From spy to bye-bye

  published Aug 20, 2010

  Alex finally got sent home on this week's Top Chef D.C., which should appease his legion of detractors. In addition to his usual disjointed kitchen antics and incoherent decisions, he tried using sous... More >>

• Now Playing

  published August 19, 2010

  Garage Sale Loud: This Is It. Almost every summer, the folks at Heritage Square stage what is essentially a musical review with a thin... More >>

• Droppin' drawers: The Underpants is an airy, salacious comedy

  published August 19, 2010

  Watching the king on parade, Louise Maske reached up to get a better view and accidentally dropped her drawers. As The Underpants... More >>

• Tireless satire: For Tomfoolery, don't leave your brain at home

  published August 19, 2010

  Sometimes the simplest things give us the most pleasure. Tomfoolery isn't a big, complicated show: just four charming performers... More >>

• Top Chef D.C., round nine: Colorado loses a contestant

  published Aug 12, 2010

  Are the folks at Bravo as bored with Top Chef as some viewers have started to ber No photos of the food on the website this week. No insider blogs. No Michael Voltaggio telling us how to make the winn... More >>

• Now Playing

  published August 12, 2010

  Beauty and the Beast. Though it's backed by expert musicians and technicians, the real miracle is the Phamaly company itself. The leads... More >>

• Top Chef D.C., round eight: Rice checks

  published Aug 06, 2010

  Everyone hates Alex. The viewing audience hates Alex. His fellow contestants hate Alex. Ask any food obsessive you encounter whether Alex stole Ed's pea puree, and the answer will be an unhesitating "... More >>

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch so awesome, Avenue adds another show

  published Aug 04, 2010

  Denver theater audiences are famous for the ease with which they award standing ovations -- a few friends of the cast rising, then a handful more, finally a largish section center front -- while folks... More >>

• Only the set falls flat in the sparkling The Real Thing

  published August 5, 2010

  The first scene in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing is between a husband and the wife he suspects of adultery. She has just returned... More >>

• Now Playing

  published August 5, 2010

  Beauty and the Beast. Though it's backed by expert musicians and technicians, the real miracle is the Phamaly company itself. The leads... More >>

• Top Chef D.C., round seven: peas and thank you

  published Jul 29, 2010

  The challenges on Top Chef this week had a little more to do with food, and less with gimmickry. For the Quickfire, the chefs were to create a scrumptious morsel on a toothpick because, as guest judge... More >>

• South Pacific returns to its surprisingly raw roots

  published July 29, 2010

  The songs from South Pacific are part of our daily diet. We hum them; we pray they don't turn up in TV commercials; we endure bad... More >>

• Measure for Measure gets tricked out at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival

  published July 29, 2010

  There are times when I want to scream at a director doing Shakespeare: For God's sake, if you don't like the damn play, don't stage it. For... More >>

• Now Playing

  published July 29, 2010

  Beauty and the Beast. Though it's backed by expert musicians and technicians, the real miracle is the Phamaly company itself. The leads... More >>

• Top Chef D.C., round six: A meaty gimmick

  published Jul 23, 2010

  It's getting hard to watch Top Chef D.C. and harder to write about it. I keep waiting to feel the kind of excitement I felt about the show in the past. It may be that this is an uninteresting group o... More >>

• EXIT STAGE RIGHT

  published July 22, 2010

  When Tyee Tilghman first stepped onto the stage at Curious six years ago — having been lured from Washington, D.C., by artistic director Chip... More >>

• The Fantasticks? Not so fantastic.

  published July 22, 2010

  If "Try to Remember" doesn't move you, The Fantasticks plain isn't working, and though the song carries all kinds of memories for... More >>