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By Juliet Wittman
Over the past year, Curious Theatre Company has given us a first-rate production of Pulitzer winner and Tony nominee Clybourne Park; 9 Circles,... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
There are two major threads in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. There's the primary plot, in which Viola is shipwrecked in Illyria, decides to dress... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
The bar where Amateur Night at the Big Heart takes place is what sociologists call a "third place" — the first being home, for most people,... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
Some years ago, writer-actor Luciann Lajoie found herself alone and at loose ends, so she decided to try Internet dating. In Date, seated in what... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
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 song... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
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 >>
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By Juliet Wittman
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 lighthearted take... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
Novelist and playwright Michael Frayn is equally adept at comedy — his Noises Off may be the funniest and most intricately structured farce... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
Did you understand it?
I couldn't hear the words. They just kept yelling and yelling.
— Overheard in the women's bathroom after the... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
Many of George Bernard Shaw's plays are extended arguments — moral, sociological, political — but the argumentation in Heartbreak... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
Buntport Theater Company has always had a creative way with music: The ensemble's choices for openings, accompaniment and intermissions are... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
The Slater family in Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw comprises three odd, bitter and unhappy people who nonetheless live in uneasy equilibrium until... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
The role of the Man in the Chair is the spine for The Drowsy Chaperone, and it's the primary reason that this lighthearted, inconsequential and... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
As Southern Baptist Sissies begins, a preacher is delivering a sermon while a young man comments on it: "What a crock of shit," Mark exclaims.... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
The words "diva" and "legendary" could have been coined to describe Maria Callas, one of those fiery, imperial, larger-than-life talents who... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
The heartbreaking thing about the Denver Center Theatre Company's production of The Taming of the Shrew is just how close it comes to brilliance... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
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 peddling... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
What is it that makes us find Victorian murders so juicy, fascinating and macabre? And also so irresistibly funny? Is it the formal outfits, the... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. — Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest has been such a staple for so many... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
The Israel-Palestine conflict has spawned furious arguments among friends and families at many a Jewish dinner table — even with guests who... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
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 one... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
Playwright Steve Dietz never bores me. His dialogue is usually smart and his imagination fresh. He likes to come up with intricate plot twists,... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
— W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939
On... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
You couldn't find a more fitting interpreter for Bernard Pomerance's play The Elephant Man than the Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
Belgians and Greeks do it,
Nice young men who sell antiques do it
Let's do it. Let's fall in love.
The Brontes felt that they must do it,
Ernest... More >>
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Any new production of West Side Story has to stand up to the dozens of high-school productions we've seen over the decades, as well as our... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep tackles health, care, death and dying in the United States, and finding material should be easy. Is there anyone... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
The film It's a Wonderful Life is a much-loved American classic. Some families watch it together year after year at this time, like Miracle on... More >>
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By Juliet Wittman
Book-to-stage adaptations are often wooden. Although the Denver Center Theatre Company had great success with Eric Schmiedl's adaptation of Kent... More >>
