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 April 7, 2011

  Fiction. In the first scene of Fiction, two people argue and flirt in a Paris cafe. They seem entirely familiar with each other;... More >>

• Lynn Nottage illuminates the plight of Congolese women in Ruined

  published April 7, 2011

  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 >>

• Top Chef All-Stars: A fight to the finish, and then some

  published Mar 31, 2011

  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 >>

• Now Playing

  published March 31, 2011

  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 >>

• Aurora Fox presents a daring evening of theater with K2

  published March 24, 2011

  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 >>

• Homebody/Kabul is a large and raggedly ambitious work

  published March 24, 2011

  The greatest strength of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul lies in the hour-long opening monologue, in which an eccentric British... More >>

• Top Chef All Stars: No way for the conch two-ways

  published Mar 17, 2011

  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 >>

• Playwright Steven Dietz offers a mental Rubik's Cube in Fiction

  published March 17, 2011

  Memory deceives. The written word tries to encapsulate memory, but it, too, deceives — and sometimes it deceives deliberately. And so... More >>

• The Spoils of War

  published March 17, 2011

  Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Ruined deals with the impact of war – specifically, war in the Democratic Republic... More >>

• Middle East Side Story

  published March 17, 2011

  Curious Theatre Company got its start more than ten years ago when a group of artists came together to produce Tony Kushner’s Angels in... More >>

• Traces balances everything quite nicely at the Denver Center

  published March 17, 2011

  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 >>

• Now Playing

  published March 17, 2011

  The Field. Bull McCabe has been farming a few acres for several years — fencing, tearing out weeds, fertilizing — until the... More >>

• Top Chef All-Stars: Life's a beach!

  published Mar 10, 2011

  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 >>

• After all these years, Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes holds up as a theater piece

  published March 10, 2011

  Written in 1939, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes is showing its age — both in the dated characterizations and the... More >>

• The Field is a solid production by the Denver Victorian Playhouse

  published March 3, 2011

  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 >>

• Top Chef All-Stars: Stolen ideas, no focus on food -- is it time to question the core premise of the showr

  published Feb 24, 2011

  "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 >>

• Reasons to Be Pretty is thick with expletives that still hold meaning

  published February 24, 2011

  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 >>

• Crime and Punishment may be brief, but its passages are vivid and moving

  published February 24, 2011

  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 >>

• Michelle Obama ate well at Top Chef Kelly Liken's restaurant; you can, too, with this recipe

  published Feb 23, 2011

  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 >>

• Top Chef All Stars: That's the way the cookie crumbles

  published Feb 18, 2011

  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 >>

• A superb cast stars in the DCTC's Midsummer Night's Dream

  published February 17, 2011

  It's hard to get enthusiastic about another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I've seen so many oafishly boring and... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 17, 2011

  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 >>

• New Play Summit sets the stage for an exciting next act at the Denver Center

  published Feb 14, 2011

  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 >>

• Top Chef All Stars: A dry burger results in one chef packing his knives

  published Feb 10, 2011

  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 >>

• Czeching In

  published February 10, 2011

  It’s rare for aficionados to encounter an opera they haven’t seen dozens of times before and whose arias they can’t comfortably... More >>