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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2013 Stories by Juliet Wittman

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  Bitter, frustrated love earns a rousing ovation in Germinal's newest play

  published May 23, 2013

  At the end of Long Day's Journey Into Night, the audience members at Germinal Stage did something I've never seen at that... More >>

• Now Playing

  published May 23, 2013

  Dividing the Estate. Dividing the Estate is a quietly incisive play about a large and contentious family. Stella Gordon, the 85-year-old... More >>

• Mother Knows Best

  published May 9, 2013

  A recent Facebook thread carried a passionate argument about whether childbirth was ecstatic or hideously painful. “Painful” voters... More >>

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  The Memory of Water's plot and problems are never quite real...or original

  published May 16, 2013

  The power of mothers — for good and ill — is a theater trope that never quite loses its potency. In Shelagh Stephenson's The... More >>

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  The old-order themes of Dividing the Estate continue to resonate on stage

  published May 16, 2013

  Dividing the Estate is a quietly incisive play about a large and contentious family. Stella Gordon, the 85-year-old matriarch,... More >>

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  Boulder Farmers' Market, week five: Bees and rhubarb

  published May 13, 2013

  Tim Brod of Highland Honey Bees sells creamed honey and herb-infused honey intended to promote health, as well as queen bees and bee packages to would-be apiarists and pollination services for local o... More >>

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  Bach at Leipzig channels Tom Stoppard without the lasting exhilaration

  published May 9, 2013

  If I were as intensely clever as playwright Itamar Moses, author of Bach at Leipzig, and as fond of intellectual games, I would... More >>

• Boulder Farmers' Market, week four: Strawberries, and seven things not to do

  published May 06, 2013

  The big news at the Boulder Farmers' Market Saturday: Randy and Regan of 2 Rs Farm have strawberries. I restrain myself from doing a celebratory dance around their stand -- which is also heaped with c... More >>

• Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company announces eighth season -- including a world premiere

  published May 06, 2013

  The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company has just announced its upcoming season, the eighth for this troupe, and it's an intriguing one that includes three regional premieres and one significant capture: ... More >>

• Painting Picasso

  published April 11, 2013

  Herbert Siguenza has worked for 26 years with the theater group Culture Clash in Los Angeles — we saw the company’s rich and joyous... More >>

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  The Color Purple is long on talent, short on passion

  published May 2, 2013

  When it was published in 1985, Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple was a groundbreaker — illuminating places that had been in... More >>

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  Everything that happens in God of Carnage is expected...and not

  published May 2, 2013

  Let's start with the setting, so pristine, white, minimal and tasteful: chairs with gracefully curving legs, a glass table on which art books... More >>

• Boulder Farmers' market, week three: spinach is in -- but no apricots, everr

  published Apr 29, 2013

  Eating local brings different joys and disappointments every year, and there's a big disappointment coming up -- as I learn from farmer John Ellis at the Boulder Farmers' Market Saturday. No apricots ... More >>

• Acting Out

  published April 11, 2013

  Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is a miraculous and unlikely talent. He grew up in Miami housing projects, the son of a crack-addicted mother,... More >>

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  A Weekend With Pablo Picasso truly celebrates life and art

  published April 18, 2013

  We've had a few theatrical art lessons around here recently. And not so recently. Red, at Curious Theatre Company last year, revealed... More >>

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  The hilarious A Knight to Remember is a metaphor for its creators

  published April 18, 2013

  Buntport Theater Company put several peculiar messages on Facebook before A Knight to Remember opened. These implied that the... More >>

• Boulder Farmers' Market, week two: From duck eggs to salmon

  published Apr 15, 2013

  The Boulder Farmers' Market on Saturday, April 13, is one of those variable Colorado days when you're not sure whether to wear a coat, a jacket or a heavy sweater -- and you find yourself peeling off ... More >>

• Top-notch performances lift Man of La Mancha

  published April 11, 2013

  Based on the seventeenth-century masterpiece Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, Man of La Mancha was an award-gobbling... More >>

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  The smart, mature Other Desert Cities makes for an absorbing evening

  published April 11, 2013

  From the early scenes of Other Desert Cities, you'd think it was going to be one of those family dramas in which everyone sits... More >>

• Boulder Farmers' Market opens for the season

  published Apr 08, 2013

  There was just a little wistfulness mixed with the jubilation at the first Boulder Farmers' Market of the year on Saturday; you couldn't help thinking about the vendors who hadn't returned. For exampl... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  What to expect when the Boulder County Farmers' Market returns tomorrow

  published Apr 05, 2013

  Some people say the first green shoots of spring have the most chi or energy, while others insist they're particularly cleansing for your system. No matter what the reason, most of us are yearning for... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Man of La Mancha still has impact at Arvada Center

  published Apr 04, 2013

  Man of La Mancha, based on Miquel de Cervantes's seventeenth-century masterpiece Don Quixote, was an award-gobbling sensation when it was first staged in 1965. The musical has less impact now that it... More >>

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  The Other Place offers a riveting look at a mind unraveling

  published April 4, 2013

  At the beginning of The Other Place, Sharr White's absorbing study of a mind unraveling, a woman is standing at a podium giving a... More >>

• Playwright Sharr White returns to Boulder with The Other Place

  published Mar 29, 2013

  Sharr White's plays have been workshopped and mounted around the country over the years, and he has received several awards -- but it was The Other Place, his piece about a brilliant woman scientist's... More >>

• The Other Place has its regional premiere in Boulder this weekend

  published Mar 21, 2013

  "This is an old-boy event in which women do not appear unless to provide some kind of illicit service. And when we do appear, we do not wear heels. And when we do wear heels, if we do not immediately ... More >>