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

• Bob Garner, RIP

  published Jul 20, 2012

  Today Randy Weeks is president of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and executive director of Denver Center Attractions, but when he first met impresario Robert Garner in 1978, he was an under... More >>

• The Edge Theatre's It's Just Sex comes to a climax this weekend

  published Jul 20, 2012

  The Edge Theatre Company gives the last few performances of It's Just Sex this weekend, and the show is worth a visit. Not that the script is deep. It isn't. But it is clever, funny and mildly titilla... More >>

• Dushanbe Tea Festival will be steeped in culture

  published Jul 19, 2012

  When Sara and Lenny Martinelli first took over the Dushanbe Teahouse fourteen years, Sara knew a lot about herbs, but little about tea -- and the internet, she points out, "was a baby then." So she de... More >>

• A terrific series explores the women of Shakespeare

  published July 19, 2012

  Scholars have said many thoughtful things about Shakespeare's women, but Tina Packer, who helmed the highly respected Shakespeare & Company in... More >>

• Reading the tea leaves at Dushanbe Teahouse

  published Jul 17, 2012

  When Boulderites say "Meet you at the teahouse," no one ever asks which or where. The Dushanbe Teahouse is an integral part of the Boulder scene, a fantastically decorated, Persian-Islamic themed plac... More >>

• The Dushanbe Teahouse's long, strange trip

  published July 19, 2012

  A stormy night in Boulder, rain lashing down, flood warning in effect, and four of us sitting in a comfortable corner of the More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Update: And the Henrys go to...

  published Jul 17, 2012

  Sitting beside me at the Henrys last night was the woman who makes it all happen: Gloria Shanstrom, general manager of the Colorado Theatre Guild. It is Shanstrom who makes this glittering event -- th... More >>

• Say it loud: Noises Off is a resounding success

  published July 12, 2012

  Michael Frayn's Noises Off is a farce about a farce. It relies on all those familiar farcical conventions — lots of doors... More >>

• The CSF's Richard III includes several novel performances

  published July 5, 2012

  The theater world is full of Richard IIIs quipping, posturing, lying and murdering their way through thickets of bodies to the English crown.... More >>

• A young couple's relationship is tested in the touching Sweet Storm

  published June 28, 2012

  The setting is a functional living space, bare-bones but lovingly furnished with pots of gardenias. There's a large bed in the center. We hear... More >>

• The Oscar Wilde Experience feels like a warm evening among friends

  published June 21, 2012

  The Oscar Wilde Experience feels less like a full-fledged theater production than a warm, pleasant evening spent with friends.... More >>

• Steven J. Burge and Damon Guerrasio deliver an entertaining Love Child

  published June 21, 2012

  A few days after I've seen Love Child, the notes on my pad — a mix of observations, reminders and actual quotes —... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Steve Burge gives us a lot to love in Love Child

  published Jun 14, 2012

  Steven Burge, who's currently starring with Damon Guerrasio in Love Child, a hoot of a show at the Avenue Theater, is one of the funniest actors anywhere. So it was a surprise to learn that he has to... More >>

• Now Playing

  published June 14, 2012

  In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play. Playwright Sarah Ruhl uses the orgasm as the prism through which she views the entire Victorian... More >>

• Buntport takes on centuries-old entertainment law in The Roast Beef Situation

  published June 14, 2012

  The six members of the Buntport Theater Company like taking up strange facts, historical anomalies and odd and eccentric bits of information... More >>

• In the Next Room provides a stimulating evening of theater

  published June 7, 2012

  In her book The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, Elisabeth Lloyd, philosopher of science, provides an... More >>

• Germinal's production of The Misanthrope is no throwback

  published May 31, 2012

  The last time I saw Molière's The Misanthrope, it was gorgeously staged at the Denver Center, with an elegant set adorned... More >>

• Vibrators play a starring role in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room

  published May 24, 2012

  Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) is about orgasms -- but it's neither titillating nor smutty. Ruhl has been called one of our most brilliantly imaginative playwrights, and locals h... More >>

• Revolutionary themes drive 11 Minutes' ambitious Fuenteovejuna

  published May 24, 2012

  The 11 Minutes Theatre Company has revived Fuenteovejuna, a seventeenth-century play by Lope de Vega based on a historical... More >>

• Colorado Shakespeare Festival puts on a serviceable Twelfth Night at the Arvada Center

  published May 17, 2012

  There are two major threads in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. There's the primary plot, in which Viola is shipwrecked in Illyria,... More >>

• Curious Theatre brings painter Mark Rothko to life in Red

  published May 17, 2012

  Over the past year, Curious Theatre Company has given us a first-rate production of Pulitzer winner and Tony nominee Clybourne Park;... More >>

• Like Rothko's paintings, Red makes strong demands on the viewer

  published May 10, 2012

  Red opened last weekend at Curious Theatre Company. We'll publish a full review in the next Westword -- but Juliet Wittman was so impressed with the production, she provided this sneak preview: John ... More >>

• Find your connection at Amateur Night at the Big Heart

  published May 10, 2012

  The bar where Amateur Night at the Big Heart takes place is what sociologists call a "third place" — the first being home,... More >>

• Now Playing

  published May 10, 2012

  Date. Some years ago, writer-actor Luciann Lajoie found herself alone and at loose ends, so she decided to try Internet dating. In... More >>

• Now Showing

  published May 3, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great... More >>