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

• Phamaly's Beauty and the Beast enchants

  published July 22, 2010

  I love Phamaly, but I'm frequently unenthusiastic about the troupe's choice of material. I skipped January's Barefoot in the Park,... More >>

• Now Playing

  published July 22, 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 five: Kenny curries favor in Elimination Challenge

  published Jul 15, 2010

  Last night, Kenny Gilbert finally won the big one -- the Elimination Challenge -- and the look of relief on his face was palpable. He's been an obvious contender from the beginning on this season of T... More >>

• Steve Martin concocts an unlikely meeting of the minds in Picasso at the Lapin Agile

  published July 15, 2010

  The premise of Steve Martin's entirely ahistorical Picasso at the Lapin Agile is that Picasso and Einstein met at an artists'... More >>

• King Lear rides the range at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival

  published July 15, 2010

  I'm not sure why director Lynne Collins chose to set her King Lear in the late nineteenth-century American West, since it doesn't... More >>

• Now Playing

  published July 15, 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 >>

• Top Chef DC, round four: Oh, baby

  published Jul 08, 2010

  Last night's Top Chef DC, episode 4, felt like self-parody -- too many chefs; too many flying shots of hands chopping, sauteeing, stirring; too many judgments and too many judges using truncated phras... More >>

• Now Playing

  published July 8, 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 >>

• Top Chef D.C., round three: No picnic

  published Jul 01, 2010

  I hate it when Tom Colicchio gets sententious, as he did facing the losing four contestants on last night's third episode of Top Chef D.C.. Stephen, Tim, Kevin and Tracey stood in front of him, shaken... More >>

• Nick Sugar was made for the lead in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

  published July 1, 2010

  At the start, Hedwig and the Angry Inch seems like a hipper, wilder, more raucous and contemporary variation on a theme that's... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Top Chef D.C., round two: Silly bipartisandwiches, sensitive Colicchio

  published Jun 24, 2010

  The early episodes of any Top Chef season tend to feature nonsensical challenges, probably because a large number of chefs are still in play. (I constantly have to remind myself who in the current six... More >>

• Now Playing

  published June 24, 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 >>

• Top Chef contestant and Coloradan Kenny Gilbert could go all the way

  published Jun 17, 2010

  The first episode of Top Chef D.C. aired last night, and like every other food obsessive I know, I was glued to the set. Now in its seventh season, at this point the show is pretty much pure formula -... More >>

• Heritage Square is still Loud and proud

  published June 17, 2010

  For the past two decades — ever since T.J. Mullin took over the space where William Oakley had been mounting melodramas — Heritage... More >>

• Now Playing

  published June 17, 2010

  Dietrich & Chevalier. The Marlene Dietrich and Maurice Chevalier we all remember were artificial figures, carefully lit, costumed and... More >>

• Marlene Dietrich and Maurice Chevalier get the star treatment

  published June 10, 2010

  The Marlene Dietrich and Maurice Chevalier we remember were artificial figures, carefully lit, costumed and photographed, their media images... More >>

• Now Playing

  published June 10, 2010

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

• Here's the rub: A blend of seasoning shops in Boulder could get spicy

  published June 10, 2010

  When you teach a writing class focused on food — as I did at the University of Colorado for almost a decade — you run into a lot of... More >>

• Peter Pan soars at Boulder's Dinner Theatre

  published June 3, 2010

  Kids' shows can be tedious. I associate them with low production values, broad acting styles and condescension toward their intended audience.... More >>

• Now Playing

  published June 3, 2010

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

• Buntport Theater creates a hare-raising musical with Jugged Rabbit Stew

  published May 27, 2010

  You have to wonder at the sheer gutsiness of the Buntport Theater Company, whose members took an absurd idea and then — instead of... More >>

• Now Playing

  published May 27, 2010

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

• Up doesn't really fly at Curious

  published May 20, 2010

  The legend of the man on the flying lawn chair sounds like an urban myth, but it just happens to be true. In 1982, an ordinary working guy... More >>

• Now Playing

  published May 20, 2010

  Mouse in a Jar. George Orwell once said, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever,"... More >>

• In The Sound of a Voice, you only hurt the one you love

  published May 13, 2010

  Rich in silence, sparing of words (and even those are sometimes unexpectedly ordinary, given the hushed and mysterious setting), The... More >>