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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2012 Stories by Juliet Wittman

• Talking Back

  published October 11, 2012

  Not many emerging playwrights would take on a New York Times critic, but Kristoffer Diaz, author of the Curious season opener, The Elaborate... More >>

• In Memphis's story of race and music, no happy ending is necessary

  published October 18, 2012

  At the center of Memphis, an energetic, Tony-winning musical dealing with race and music in the 1950s, is a white man, Huey... More >>

• In Is He Dead?, cross-dressing and mistaken identities earn hearty laughs

  published October 18, 2012

  Artists tend to be praised and valued far more after their deaths than during their lifetimes, and clearly this paradox was not lost on Mark... More >>

• Now Playing

  published October 18, 2012

  Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. The story of our seventh president set to propulsive emo-rock, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson could... More >>

• Despite the buzz, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a letdown

  published October 11, 2012

  Ben Dicke, a local actor and director, was inspired, astounded, knocked out, when he saw Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson in New York... More >>

• Class issues loom large in Messenger #1's potent visual images

  published October 11, 2012

  There are messengers all over Shakespeare. They fetch and carry, run on and off with news — but no one gives them much thought, despite... More >>

• Now Playing

  published October 11, 2012

  The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. The opening moments are pulse-poundingly exciting — music, live wrestling, flashing lights,... More >>

• A quality cast and crew can't save Local Theater's debut production

  published October 4, 2012

  Elijah: An Adventure starts with an arresting visual image: a group of people posed on a dock in attitudes of farewell while a... More >>

• The Denver Center works to build August Wilson's Fences

  published October 4, 2012

  The sixth play in August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, Fences revolves around a deeply flawed protagonist, Troy Maxson. The year is... More >>

• The Value of Names engages audiences through intellect and emotion

  published September 27, 2012

  "Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to... More >>

• Through its characters' thoughts and feelings, A Kind of Alaska mesmerizes

  published September 20, 2012

  In the early decades of the twentieth century, millions of people fell ill with encephalitis lethargica, a disease that seemed almost... More >>

• Without a specific target, The Threepenny Opera is raggedy and uncertain

  published September 13, 2012

  Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera, based on John Gay's satiric eighteenth-century piece, The Beggar's... More >>

• The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is absorbing, funny and smart

  published September 13, 2012

  The opening moments are pulse-poundingly exciting — music, live wrestling, flashing lights, tons of adrenaline from an already hyped-up... More >>

• The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity breaks through the fourth wall

  published Sep 06, 2012

  Curious Theatre Company opened its new season on September 1 with the regional premiere of Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, which is both a pure adrenalin rush and a significant... More >>

• Edge Theater's take on torture offers the possibility of redemption

  published August 30, 2012

  I was teaching a class on news reporting in 2002 when the Bush administration opened the prison at Guantánamo Bay and ruled that... More >>

• The Book of Mormon really is that good

  published August 23, 2012

  The Book of Mormon finally arrived in Denver, freighted with a massive weight of hype, slick marketing, praise and excitement for... More >>

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  Review + photos: The Book of Mormon is a godsend!

  published Aug 21, 2012

  The Book of Mormon finally arrived in Denver, freighted with a massive weight of hype, slick marketing, praise and excitement for this musical created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, both Colorado nati... More >>

• Joseph Wandell revisits history in Mekong Joe

  published August 16, 2012

  Children of war suffer in myriad ways. They witness and sometimes experience violence, suffer hunger and disruption, see their parents helpless... More >>

• Joe Wandell on finding his mother, and writing Mekong Joe

  published Aug 08, 2012

  Joe Wandell spent a large part of his life wondering who he was, and in his one-man show, Mekong Joe, he invites you in on the search. This isn't one of those all too common protagonist-finding-himsel... More >>

• In Spring Awakening, teens sing through violence, death and sexual frustration

  published August 9, 2012

  Founded last year by Keith Rabin as a part of Lucent Performing Arts, Ignite Theatre is signaling great seriousness of intention, lining up an... More >>

• Germinal puts a shine on Albee's brilliance in The Play About the Baby

  published August 9, 2012

  Edward Albee's brilliant The Play About the Baby is really a play about age, life and experience. It's mesmerizing to watch,... More >>

• For kids and parents, Cinderella slides neatly into the summer slot's slipper

  published August 2, 2012

  Summer shows at Boulder's Dinner Theatre are family-friendly events, intended to hold the wandering (and wondering) attention of children, and... More >>

• Driving Miss Daisy at the Barth Hotel is one of the best nights of theater in Denver

  published August 2, 2012

  I'd almost describe Driving Miss Daisy as a courtly piece. Written in the 1980s, the play deals with racism, but in a muted,... More >>

• Silhouette does justice to Deirdre O'Connor's Jailbait

  published July 26, 2012

  Claire and Emmy are fifteen, which means they're right on the cusp: worldly and womanly in some respects — and certainly in their own... More >>

• And the Henry Goes to…

  published July 12, 2012

  Despite the tanking economy, the shifting fortunes of local companies and the shrinking of the media that has always served as support and... More >>