Email Author Juliet Wittman
Fiction. In the first scene of Fiction, two people argue and flirt in a Paris cafe. They seem entirely familiar with each other;... More >>
One of the most troubled and lawless places in the world right now is the Democratic Republic of Congo, suffering the malign aftermath of... More >>
He hadn't actually lost, Mike Isabella explained after the judges named Richard Blais the winner of Top Chef All-Stars. It was just that they had inexplicably withheld the title from him. You really... More >>
Fiction. In the first scene of Fiction, two people argue and flirt in a Paris cafe. They seem entirely familiar with each other; their... More >>
Pakistan's K2 mountain is the second highest in the world, and it kills climbers: One dies for every four who make the summit. Very few of us... More >>
The greatest strength of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul lies in the hour-long opening monologue, in which an eccentric British... More >>
I actually had to think for a few minutes to remember last night's Quickfire Challenge on Top Chef, perhaps because it was as much, or more, about plating than food. The chefs, who are still in the ... More >>
Memory deceives. The written word tries to encapsulate memory, but it, too, deceives — and sometimes it deceives deliberately. And so... More >>
Lynn Nottages Pulitzer Prize-winning Ruined deals with the impact of war specifically, war in the Democratic Republic... More >>
Curious Theatre Company got its start more than ten years ago when a group of artists came together to produce Tony Kushners Angels in... More >>
I was enthralled the first time I saw Cirque du Soleil, forever ago when all that myth, glitter and spectacle was new to me. I still remember... More >>
The Field. Bull McCabe has been farming a few acres for several years — fencing, tearing out weeds, fertilizing — until the... More >>
Something weird and vampiric is happening to Mike Isabella and Richard Blais on Top Chef: Mike is getting chubbier and cockier by the week, while Richard shrinks visibly, becoming ever thinner and mor... More >>
Written in 1939, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes is showing its age — both in the dated characterizations and the... More >>
Though it's set in rural Ireland in 1965, John B. Keane's The Field, now playing at the Denver Vic, tells a universal story about... More >>
"Antonia," crooned Paula Deen after last night's Quickfire Challenge on Top Chef (which, naturally, required deep frying), "you won." Antonia wept. Somehow in all the fuss and hurry, she'd neglecte... More >>
As Reasons to Be Pretty opens, Steph is railing at her lover, Greg. The girl's a spitfire, with a habit of tossing Greg's... More >>
If memory holds, I tried reading Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment when I was a dutiful little swot of about seventeen, and didn't get... More >>
It's been a big week for Kelly Liken of Vail's Restaurant Kelly Liken, who was named a James Beard semi-finalist for Best Chef: Southwest (for the third time) -- and then fed Michelle Obama and three ... More >>
I tend not to like contrived and cutesy challenges, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching the chefs putting together cookies for Sesame Street's Cookie Monster and his friends Elmo and Telly when they vis... More >>
It's hard to get enthusiastic about another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I've seen so many oafishly boring and... More >>
The Catch. Ken Weitzman's play explores the well-worn concept of baseball as a metaphor for America itself, but in new and interesting... More >>
This weekend's New Play Summit at the Denver Center Theatre Company made it clear that after decades of sometimes sputtering movement, Denver has finally become a serious force in American theater. ... More >>
The Quickfire Challenge for the Top Chef All Stars last night was to make fondue -- and the contestants would judge each others' offerings. Who'd have thought that old '70s party and ski-lodge favorit... More >>
Its rare for aficionados to encounter an opera they havent seen dozens of times before and whose arias they cant comfortably... More >>
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