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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  The Pitmen Painters isn't as passionate as its characters

  published March 21, 2013

  Based on historical events, The Pitmen Painters tells the story of a group of miners in a small town near Northumberland who sign... More >>

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  Herbert Siguenza's A Weekend With Pablo Picasso is 45 years in the making

  published Mar 19, 2013

  When Herbert Siguenza was seven years old, he saw a book by photojournalist David Douglas Duncan called The Private World of Pablo Picasso. Although today Siguenza is perhaps best-known as a founding ... More >>

• The campy Bat Boy has the insane logic of a tabloid serial

  published March 14, 2013

  The story of Bat Boy originated in the now-defunct Weekly World News tabloid, which announced that a scientist had found a creature that... More >>

• The Brothers Size finds meaning in dreams, words and movement

  published March 14, 2013

  With the regional premiere of The Brothers Size, Curious Theatre has given Denverites their first chance to experience the work... More >>

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  Nick Sugar goes to bat for Equinox's Bat Boy: The Musical

  published Mar 07, 2013

  The opening weekend of Equinox Theatre's Bat Boy: The Musical last month was a smash -- sold-out houses on both nights, and standing ovations for the cast. But a few days later came the horrifying new... More >>

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  Four new playwrights featured in Denver Center Theater Company's next season

  published Mar 06, 2013

  With its just-announced 2013-'14 season, the Denver Center Theatre Company remains true to its mission of promoting interesting and exciting new playwrights. Four of the playwrights whose work receive... More >>

• In Jon, teens express themselves in an artificial world

  published March 7, 2013

  On the opening night for Jon, the Catamounts served vodka before the show. The drinks — courtesy of Boulder's 303 Vodka... More >>

• The Kennedys Live On

  published February 21, 2013

  James O’Hagan Murphy had several reasons to audition for the title role in Jack Holmes’s play RFK — A Portrait of Robert... More >>

• Time Travel

  published January 31, 2013

  Ah, the ’50s. That fabled time when the United States was at the height of its affluence and power, and everyone who lived here was happy... More >>

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  Jeanne Winer on The Furthest City Light's spiritual coming-of-age story

  published Feb 27, 2013

  After 35 years as a criminal defense attorney, Jeanne Winer has published her first novel. The Furthest City Light is set in Boulder and draws on her life in the courtroom, but it's neither a mystery ... More >>

• Adam Stone's Screw Tooth will share space, projects with Buntport

  published Feb 27, 2013

  Musician and multi-media artist Adam Stone has worked with Buntport Theater Company on four pieces over the last three years. He composed songs for three musicals, all of them among the company's most... More >>

• Germinal's ensemble cast shines in Spoon River Anthology

  published February 28, 2013

  The stage is set up for a cozy Halloween party: autumn-leaf ornaments, joke skeletons on the walls, a red paper lantern. Six people are sitting... More >>

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  Curious Theatre Company announces its 2013-2014 season lineup, and it's a stunner

  published Feb 21, 2013

  Reading theater reviews in the New York Times, you often find yourself suffering intense pangs of envy for those friends living there. You'll never see this fiercely confrontational drama or that hila... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 21, 2013

  Motherhood Out Loud. This play is performed by six actors — five women and a man — and consists of little playlets compiled... More >>

• This time, Romeo and Juliet aren't the figures of Romantic imagination

  published February 21, 2013

  The set for the Denver Center's Romeo and Juliet is austere. The play opens on a stage that is almost bare save for two coffins,... More >>

• The Seafarer makes waves with its tale of lost lives

  published February 21, 2013

  Despite the deceptively fine weather, it isn't spring yet. But somehow, leaving the theater after seeing The Seafarer, I couldn't... More >>

• Lida Project's R.U.R./lol uses robots to examine what it means to be human

  published Feb 15, 2013

  The word "robot" first appeared in the play Rossum's Universal Robotsor R.U.R, written in the 1920s by Czech author Karel Capek. In it, a group of scientists create human-like creatures that ultimatel... More >>

• Play Time

  published February 7, 2013

  As the Denver Center Theatre Company’s literary manager and dramaturg, Douglas Langworthy helps select the offerings for each year’s... More >>

• Ghost-Writer adds a show -- and adds to Boulder's theater scene

  published Feb 14, 2013

  The Boulder theater scene has sprung to life lately, after several years when pretty much the only choice locals had were the -- admittedly excellent but generally traditional -- offerings of Boulder'... More >>

• Blithe Spirit's set is as strong as its spooky plot

  published February 14, 2013

  Blithe Spirit doesn't mean anything. It's not a critique of upper-class society or an evocative exploration of the border between... More >>

• Marcus Gardley debuts Black Odyssey at New Play Summit

  published Feb 08, 2013

  Marcus Gardley, one of the five writers featured in this year's New Play Summit, has received several honors and awards -- including the PEN/Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright -- and has been ... More >>

• New Play Summit should be a whale of a creative weekend

  published Feb 07, 2013

  One of the most important parts of the Denver Center Theatre Company's mission is to introduce local audiences the most interesting, up-and-coming playwrights around -- and to help those playwrights e... More >>

• Now Playing

  published February 7, 2013

  Ed, Downloaded. Michael Mitnick's Ed, Downloaded, which was commissioned by the Denver Center Theatre Company, had a reading at last... More >>

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  Blithe Spirit is great entertainment -- and you can talk about it today

  published Feb 06, 2013

  Blithe Spirit, now showing at the Arvada Center, doesn't mean anything. It's not a critique of upper-class society or an evocative exploration of the border between the living and the dead -- despite ... More >>

• The absorbing Ghost-Writer will creep into your consciousness

  published February 7, 2013

  Here's a play that creeps into your consciousness on little cat feet, so quiet and unassuming, so slow-moving at first, so indifferent to the... More >>