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

• Think Big

  published February 23, 2012

  I saw a reading of The Whale during the Denver Center Theatre Company's New Play Summit last year, and it left a vivid impression. I... More >>

• Hot Lunch Apostles, a play by Boulder' Sidney Goldfarb, hits New York

  published Feb 29, 2012

  Hot Lunch Apostles, a play by Boulder poet and playwright Sidney Goldfarb, will open at New York's La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre on March 1 as part of the fabled Off-off-Broadway theater's fifty-year ... More >>

• Master Class hits a high note at Miners Alley

  published March 1, 2012

  The words "diva" and "legendary" could have been coined to describe Maria Callas, one of those fiery, imperial, larger-than-life talents who... More >>

• Miss Julie opens Paragon's new season and new space

  published March 1, 2012

  When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her... More >>

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  Update: Holly Bartges, local theater critic, moves on to her next act

  published Feb 24, 2012

  There will be a memorial for longtime Denver critic Holly Bartges at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6 at Boulder's Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Street in Boulder. "We will sing, hoist a glass and talk of a... More >>

• Dinner Time

  published February 9, 2012

  A note of congratulations should go to the Denver Center Theatre Company for its daring in premiering Lisa Loomer's Two Things You Don't... More >>

• Vicious Cycles

  published February 9, 2012

  When a U.S. soldier commits an atrocity overseas, Americans tend to respond in predictable ways. Some attempt to excuse the soldier, talking about... More >>

• Shipwrecked! An Entertainment could float your boat

  published Feb 22, 2012

  The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company is presenting Shipwrecked! An Entertainment. The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself) through February 25 at the Boulder Ensemble Theatre ... More >>

• The DCTC adds some welcome — and not-so-welcome — twists to Taming of the Shrew

  published February 23, 2012

  The heartbreaking thing about the Denver Center Theatre Company's production of The Taming of the Shrew is just how close it... More >>

• Enter Stage Right

  published February 9, 2012

  It's hard to imagine how you'd turn Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility into a musical, but a couple of artists have done it, and the... More >>

• Time hasn't been kind to Glengarry Glen Ross, but the dialogue still crackles

  published February 16, 2012

  David Mamet wrote Glengarry Glen Ross in 1984, and by now it's just so familiar. The play is about a group of small-time salesmen... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 16, 2012

  9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military called the... More >>

• Collaboration and critics: Scenes from the New Play Summit

  published Feb 13, 2012

  The American Theatre Critics' Association had chosen the New Play Summit at the Denver Center Theatre Company as the site of its winter meeting, and a group of critics compared notes one morning. We h... More >>

• Modern Muse will benefit from tonight's Drown Me in Your Kisses

  published Feb 13, 2012

  Here's a tempting pre-Valentine's Day possibility: sipping wine while being serenaded by some of Denver's best musicians and most appealing actors. Rachel Fowler, Jeff Roark, Leigh Miller, Gabriella C... More >>

• Colorado New Play Summit Playwrights' Slam serves up raw material in a rare evening

  published Feb 11, 2012

  It's ten at night, and the Jones Theatre is thronged with bodies, and smells of beer, wine and popcorn as the Playwrights' Slam -- a regular part of the Denver Center Theatre Company's Colorado New Pl... More >>

• The Whale is a big hit -- so big that the Denver Center is adding shows

  published Feb 08, 2012

  Fat people are an entertainment staple these days, from The Biggest Loser to the Food Network's new offering, Fat Chef. Still, you wouldn't really expect a play about a 600-pound man slowly dying in h... More >>

• The Arvada Center's The Importance of Being Earnest keeps an old play fresh

  published February 9, 2012

  To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. — Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest has... More >>

• Doctor Crippen is a stylized, macabre Victorian murder

  published February 9, 2012

  What is it that makes us find Victorian murders so juicy, fascinating and macabre? And also so irresistibly funny? Is it the formal outfits,... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 9, 2012

  9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military called the... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Jason Grote, writer for Smash, got the gig through a New Play Summit contact

  published Feb 06, 2012

  There's huge buzz around Smash, a television show premiering at 9 p.m. tonight on NBC. A procedural drama depicting the creation of a musical about Marilyn Monroe, Smash features such big-name acting ... More >>

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  The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen is knocking them dead!

  published Feb 03, 2012

  What is it that makes us find Victorian murders so juicy, fascinating and macabrer And also so irresistibly funnyr The Catamounts, a relatively new company, has resurrected yet another Victorian murde... More >>

• You know them: Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner

  published February 2, 2012

  The Israel-Palestine conflict has spawned furious arguments among friends and families at many a Jewish dinner table — even with guests... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 2, 2012

  9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military called the... More >>

• Hey Boulder Fringe Festival lovers: the deadline to apply is Monday

  published Jan 27, 2012

  If you've always wanted to be part of the two week riot of performance that constitutes the Boulder Fringe Festival, you need to get your application in before 11:59 p.m. on Monday, January 30. The fe... More >>

• Drama and humor mix well in The Whale

  published January 26, 2012

  It takes guts and ingenuity to write a play in which the protagonist is a morbidly obese man, constantly on stage and essentially tethered in... More >>