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

• The Good Body takes a compassionate look at American neurosis about women's bodies

  published February 10, 2011

  Having created a full-out exploration of women's relationships to their vaginas in The Vagina Monologues, feminist Eve Ensler has turned... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 10, 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 >>

• Top Chef All-Stars: Judges get uptight about loose risotto

  published Feb 03, 2011

  They sent Tre home on last night's Top Chef All-Starsbecause his risotto wasn't loose enoughr Give me a break. Perhaps it tasted terrible. Perhaps Anthony Bourdain was right in saying the focus should... More >>

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  Kafka on Ice succeeds in this slick go-around by Buntport

  published February 3, 2011

  How perfect that Buntport is reviving Kafka on Ice — first produced in 2004, and one of my favorite of the company's... More >>

• Ken Weitzman delivers a punchy evening of theater with The Catch

  published February 3, 2011

  There's a lot going on in The Catch, a world premiere that grew out of a reading at last year's New Play Festival. Ken Weitzman's... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 3, 2011

  Circle Mirror Transformation. At a small-town community center, four people are participating in an acting workshop run by Marty, who... More >>

• Fast and Furious

  published February 3, 2011

  Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, published in 2001, arguably began the current debate about our broken food system. Schlosser... More >>

• First-rate acting nearly makes up for a wayward plot in the DCTC's Map of Heaven

  published January 27, 2011

  Playwright Michele Lowe writes well about art, and the central character in her Map of Heaven is an artist, Lena, whose paintings... More >>

• The cast shines in Curious Theatre's strong production of Circle Mirror Transformation

  published January 27, 2011

  What a lark! What a plunge!" thinks Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway as she steps exuberantly into her day, and that's pretty much what I felt... More >>

• Now Playing

  published January 27, 2011

  Hello, Dolly!Say hello to Hello, Dolly!, an old warhorse finding new life at Boulder's Dinner Theatre. The musical tells the... More >>

• Ice Slick

  published January 27, 2011

  When the folks at Buntport Theater acquired a sheet of artificial ice, they knew they had to create a skating show. And — given the strange... More >>

• Top Chef All Star Restaurant Wars

  published Jan 21, 2011

  I've always been a little suspicious of Fabio's charm, his hand-kissing, and constant assertion of his Italianness, but he sure hit his stride this week in the Top Chef All Star Restaurant Wars. As hi... More >>

• Now Playing

  published January 20, 2011

  Bedroom Farce. Bedroom Farce is the story of four couples and three bedrooms. The oldest pair, Delia and Ernest, are looking... More >>

• Czech, please! A taste of Middle-European cuisine

  published Jan 18, 2011

  It's no surprise that there's no mention of cuisine in Czech Point Denver, the event series created around Opera Colorado's production of Rusalka. Most people think of Czech food as heavy and uninspir... More >>

• Jim Leonard's The Diviners flows pretty well in this PHAMALY production

  published January 20, 2011

  I was surprised to discover that Jim Leonard's The Diviners was written as recently as 1980. The play feels like a period piece,... More >>

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  Plum good: Golden Europe's schnitzel, spaetzle and strudel

  published January 20, 2011

  Visiting Golden Europe is like going to your Middle European... More >>

• Culinary treasures are revealed through a family's history

  published January 20, 2011

  Food is never a mere object, never just the thing in itself. Food always carries a story. Whether Cheetos or pepper, chocolate cake or... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Preview: A Vietnamese adoptee takes a long journey home in Steve Stajich's Mekong Joe

  published Jan 12, 2011

  Operation Babylift, which flew hundreds of babies out of Vietnam after the 1975 fall of Saigon for adoption in the United States, has faded from national memory. But for actor Joe Wandell, born Hai Tr... More >>

• Funny Bunny

  published January 13, 2011

  What made Gilda Radner one of the all-time comic greats was her astonishing combination of fragility and complete disinhibition. She was raucous,... More >>

• Despite some limitations, Bedroom Farce provides laugh-out-loud moments

  published January 13, 2011

  Bedroom Farce is the story of four couples and three bedrooms. The oldest pair, Delia and Ernest, are looking forward to a... More >>

• Next to Normal mostly avoids the pitfalls of dramatizing mental illness

  published January 13, 2011

  The first act of Next to Normal is brilliant. As almost everyone surely knows by now, the subject is an unusual one for a... More >>

• Brian Yorkey explains how his Pulitzer-winning Next to Normal evolved

  published Jan 03, 2011

  Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's musical Next to Normal won the Pulitzer for its authors -- the book and lyrics are by Yorkey, the music by Kitt. Yet it began simply as an exercise for a musical theater wo... More >>