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

• Date explores the world of online match-ups

  published May 3, 2012

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

• Now Playing

  published May 3, 2012

  The Drowsy Chaperone. The role of the Man in the Chair is the spine for The Drowsy Chaperone, and the primary reason that this... More >>

• Tearing Down the Wall

  published April 19, 2012

  Great Wall Story, by Lloyd Suh, opens at the Denver Center this week, having begun life with a staged reading at last year's New... More >>

• Hoist a PBR to The Great American Trailer Park Musical

  published April 26, 2012

  Lin's husband is scheduled for execution, but the electric chair in the big house is so rickety he can only be put to death if everyone in the... More >>

• Gross Indecency traces the arc of Oscar Wilde's ruin

  published April 26, 2012

  Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and... More >>

• Now Playing

  published April 26, 2012

  The Drowsy Chaperone. The role of the Man in the Chair is the spine for The Drowsy Chaperone, and the primary reason that this... More >>

• Amateur Night at the Big Heart is a pro production at the Aurora Fox

  published Apr 20, 2012

  Amateur Night at the Big Heart, a comedy/drama by Denver playwright and director Terry Dodd, first saw the light of day as a staged reading at the Denver Center Theatre Company 25 years ago.The follow... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Chess moves to Lone Tree: Check it out!

  published Apr 19, 2012

  Did you miss Chess at the Arvada Centerr Now you have a second chance to see the production, which has moved to the Lone Tree Arts Center's Main Stage Theater, where it opens tonight. In the meantime,... More >>

• To the Bad Manners Born

  published April 12, 2012

  Chip Walton, artistic director of Curious Theatre, says he's having such a blast rehearsing Becky Shaw that he's almost sorry the play is opening... More >>

• Great Wall Story's interesting ideas are stalled by problems

  published April 19, 2012

  When I saw the reading of Lloyd Suh's Great Wall Story at last year's New Play Summit, I thought it smart and entertaining, a... More >>

• A quartet of plays makes up The Two of Us at Miners Alley

  published April 19, 2012

  Novelist and playwright Michael Frayn is equally adept at comedy — his Noises Off may be the funniest and most intricately... More >>

• Boulder Farmers' Market is now open on Saturdays

  published Apr 13, 2012

  The Boulder Farmers' Market opened for business at 8 a.m. last Saturday, and from the moment the opening gong sounded, 13th Street between Arapahoe and Canyon was thronged. Organizers have no way of p... More >>

• The Denver Center's well-executed Heartbreak House proves Shaw is still relevant

  published April 12, 2012

  Many of George Bernard Shaw's plays are extended arguments — moral, sociological, political — but the argumentation in... More >>

• Chess: A Musical is nearly saved by director Rod Lansberry

  published April 12, 2012

  Did you understand it? I couldn't hear the words. They just kept yelling and yelling. — Overheard in the... More >>

• Who loves your Galleria Theatre celebrates its twentieth birthday with I Love You extension

  published Apr 06, 2012

  There's a reason I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change -- a gently musical that we dubbed "pure peach souffle" over a decade ago -- returned to the Garner Galleria Theatre earlier this year for a sev... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  National Theatre Conservatory offers final showcase performances

  published Apr 04, 2012

  The National Theatre Conservatory -- a training ground for young actors, and one of the jewels of the Denver Performing Arts Complex -- is closing its doors after more than 25 years. As a parting gift... More >>

• Becky Shaw turns banal truisms about love and family on their heads

  published April 5, 2012

  The Slater family in Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw comprises three odd, bitter and unhappy people who nonetheless live in uneasy... More >>

• Buntport's Tommy Lee Jones Goes to Opera Alone is brilliantly original

  published April 5, 2012

  Buntport Theater Company has always had a creative way with music: The ensemble's choices for openings, accompaniment and intermissions are... More >>

• Joey Wishnia shares his life with the playwright in Shakespeare and Me

  published Apr 03, 2012

  There aren't many actors around who can claim to have met Laurence Olivier, David Frost and Noel Coward -- however briefly -- or who still refer to Macbeth as Mackers, to ward off the curse associated... More >>

• Make a date with Becky Shaw, a play about a blind date

  published Mar 29, 2012

  Becky Shaw, the new production that Chip Walton is directing at Curious Theatre Company, opened the weekend before the Best of Denver issue -- in which we published no reviews. (We did, however, give... More >>

• Now Playing

  published March 22, 2012

  The Drowsy Chaperone. The role of the Man in the Chair is the spine for The Drowsy Chaperone, and the primary reason that this... More >>

• The Drowsy Chaperone provides an exuberant evening at Boulder's Dinner Theatre

  published March 15, 2012

  The role of the Man in the Chair is the spine for The Drowsy Chaperone, and it's the primary reason that this lighthearted,... More >>

• Stories on Stage shakes things up with Distant Voices on Sunday

  published Mar 09, 2012

  The root of theater is storytelling, and Stories on Stage has made a practice of matching expressive words with talented actors for many years. The March 11 offering, Distant Voices, features Sherman ... More >>

• Southern Baptist Sissies suffers from a didactic script

  published March 8, 2012

  As Southern Baptist Sissies begins, a preacher is delivering a sermon while a young man comments on it: "What a crock of shit,"... More >>

• Chip Walton promises Curious's next season will be provoking...and entertaining

  published Mar 02, 2012

  Curious Theatre Company just announced its fifteenth season, which includes five regional premieres as well as Yasmina Reza's Tony award-winning God of Carnage. Artistic director Chip Walton says he u... More >>