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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2011 Stories by Juliet Wittman

• Now Playing

  published December 29, 2011

  Phantom. While playwright Arthur Kopit and composer Maury Yeston were still putting together Phantom, Andrew Lloyd Webber's... More >>

• Black Actors Guild does the most with Doin' the Most

  published Dec 22, 2011

  The Black Actors Guild was originally founded by five juniors at the Denver School of the Arts who were frustrated with the available material and also by the stereotype of the black actor, according ... More >>

• Now Playing

  published December 22, 2011

  It's a Wonderful Life. The film It's a Wonderful Life is a much-loved American classic. Some families watch it together year... More >>

• Vaclav Havel's revolution was a testament to the subversive power of art

  published Dec 20, 2011

  Vaclav Havel, the unassuming playwright dissident who helped spearhead the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that overthrew Communism in Czechoslovakia, died on December 18. He became the country's president ... More >>

• It's a Wonderful Life is right for the holidays, if pretty hokey

  published December 15, 2011

  The film It's a Wonderful Life is a much-loved American classic. Some families watch it together year after year at this time, like... More >>

• Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep tackles health, care, death and dying in the USA

  published December 15, 2011

  Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep tackles health, care, death and dying in the United States, and finding material should be easy. Is... More >>

• Now Playing

  published December 15, 2011

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Book-to-stage adaptations are often wooden, but playwright Laura Eason has done a terrific job with Mark... More >>

• Michelle Ellsworth dances her way to a USA Fellowship

  published Dec 09, 2011

  Performance artist Michelle Ellsworth's onstage persona is a fascinating mix of humility and daring, mockery and gentleness. She comes across as a deferential satirist, a playful deep thinker, someone... More >>

• Playwright Laura Eason does a terrific job with Tom Sawyer at the Denver Center

  published December 8, 2011

  Book-to-stage adaptations are often wooden. Although the Denver Center Theatre Company had great success with Eric Schmiedl's adaptation of... More >>

• The Arvada Center's 1940's Radio Hour lacks precision

  published December 8, 2011

  The setting for The 1940's Radio Hour is the Algonquin Room at the Hotel Astor in New York, where WOV radio (the V stands for... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  John Moore's exit from the Denver Post leaves a void in the theater scene

  published Dec 07, 2011

  It hit home for members of the theater community Sunday, when they opened the Denver Post and found a gaping void in the arts pages: There was no column by longtime critic and commentator John Moore. ... More >>

• Kafka on Ice redux: Tonight at Buntport Theater

  published Dec 02, 2011

  Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice -- created by the company in 2004 -- combines events from the author's life with incidents in his famous novella Metamorphosis (you know, the one that begins, "As Greg... More >>

• Escanaba: 1922 nicely caps off the Jeff Daniels trilogy

  published December 1, 2011

  I'd missed the first two installments of Jeff Daniels's Escanaba trilogy — Escanaba in da Moonlight and Escanaba in... More >>

• Now Playing

  published December 1, 2011

  Cannibal! The Musical. Cannibal! The Musical began life as a movie written by pre-South Park and Book of Mormon... More >>

• Effective direction drives Phantom to beauty at Boulder's Dinner Theatre

  published November 24, 2011

  Playwright Arthur Kopit and composer Maury Yeston were still putting together their Phantom when Phantom of the Opera, the... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 24, 2011

  Collapse. Comedy doesn't usually get the respect accorded tragedy, but if you analyze the way that playwright Allison Moore has put... More >>

• Cannibal! The Musical starts out lively but ends up eating itself

  published November 17, 2011

  Cannibal! The Musical began life as a movie written by pre-South Park and Book of Mormon Trey Parker, when he was a... More >>

• Germinal's Streetcar is a powerful evening of theater

  published November 17, 2011

  When Blanche, desperate and destitute, comes to live with her sister in A Streetcar Named Desire, she finds Stella sexily and... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 17, 2011

  American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose. Written by Richard Montoya, of the San Francisco performance group Culture Clash, American... More >>

• A Streetcar Named Desire opens at Germinal Stage

  published Nov 10, 2011

  A Streetcar Named Desire opened this past weekend at Germinal Stage Denver. Juliet Wittman's complete review will run in our November 17 issue; in the meantime, here's a capsule critique:When Blanche ... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 10, 2011

  American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose. Written by Richard Montoya, of the San Francisco performance group Culture Clash, American... More >>

• In Collapse, playwright Allison Moore creates humor from the I-35W Bridge tragedy

  published November 10, 2011

  Comedy doesn't usually get the respect accorded tragedy, but if you analyze the way that playwright Allison Moore has put together... More >>

• Blind Date is an interactive experience in meta-theater

  published November 3, 2011

  Rebecca Northan, a Canadian actress, walks a highwire in her almost-one-woman show Blind Date — almost, because two zealous... More >>

• PHAMALY's Quadrapalooza is homegrown...and very funny

  published November 3, 2011

  Certain moments from the past decade of reviewing remain indelible. I can still conjure Mare Trevathan's riddling phrases in The... More >>

• Now Playing

  published November 3, 2011

  American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose. Written by Richard Montoya, of the San Francisco performance group Culture Clash, American... More >>