JULIET WITTMAN
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A Major Change Is Coming to Curious Theatre in Its 25th Season
This article originally appeared in Westword. Curious Theatre Company’s founder and producing director, Chip Walton, recently announced the company’s 25th season, which opens September 10 with Heroes of the Fourth Turning, by Will Arbery. This announcement was coupled...
I Had an Abortion: Life Before Roe v. Wade
A draft of a Supreme Court decision banning abortion has leaked, and although reporters are carefully explaining that this is preliminary and may yet be edited, the import is clear: The court plans to destroy Roe v. Wade. Abortion will be illegal, and it seems no...
Sad Pigs, Jumps, and Little Birds
There was a Pig that sat alone Beside a ruined Pump: By day and night he made his moan— It would have stirred a heart of stone To see him wring his hoofs and groan, Because he could not jump. Right now I am feeling the deepest empathy with Lewis Carroll’s...
Turning Eighty, Art, Time and Meeting Photographer David A. McLintock
In less than two weeks, I will turn eighty. It feels huge. When I was young, no one I knew lived that long. My father died at the age of forty-three when I was four; my mother lived to be seventy, and my stepfather seventy-three. I encountered my first...
Buntport’s 50th Production Takes on England’s Murderous — or Innocent? — King Richard III
This article first appeared in Westword. Some twenty years ago a group of ex-students from Colorado College founded Buntport, a unique Denver theater company that is opening its fiftieth group-created original production, Richard, this weekend. The troupe has...
Animal Farm at the Arvada Center
My trip to the Arvada Center to see Nelson Bond’s adaptation of Orwell’s Animal Farm was more electrifying than the hundreds of theater trips of the past several years of reviewing. As many of you know, I had surgery for a hip replacement early in January, and this...
A Christmas Carol Returns to the Denver Center With New Meaning
This article originally appeared in Westword. In normal times, the story of Scrooge — his stinginess and bad temper, his visitation by three ghosts and ultimate conversion into a kindly, charitable soul — may seem a bit of a Christmas cliché. Who doesn’t know the...
Stories on Stage Tells Us That Life Is Uncertain in Three Short Pieces
This article originally appeared in Westword. In Lawrence Osborne’s short story "Volcano," a divorced woman searches for meaning and identity on a trip to Hawaii. Anthony Powell, director for Stories on Stage, describes it as “funny — a strange, crazy story.”...
After an Inspiring Run, Germinal Stage Closes the Curtain
This article originally appeared in Westword. Ed Baierlein, who founded Germinal Stage Denver in 1973 and oversaw pretty much every decision at the theater, from play selection to casting, outreach to finances and staging to site selection, has closed the...
Forge Light Theatreworks Promises a Bloody Good Time With Lizzie
This article originally appeared in Westword. Violent. Blood-dripping. Rage-filled. These are terms critics have used to describe the musical Lizzie, based on the story of infamous ax-wielding parent-killer Lizzie Borden. Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune called it...
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