JULIET WITTMAN
FICTION. MEMOIR. CRITICISM. JOURNALISMRecent blog posts by Juliet
Butterfly Effect Theatre Returns Home After a Season on the Road
This article originally appeared in Westword. Just over a year ago, the husband-wife duo of Stephen Weitz and Rebecca Remaly changed the name of their Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company to Butterfly Effect Theatre of Colorado after re-thinking the...
The Denver Actors Fund Celebrates a Million-Dollar Milestone
The Denver Actors Fund is an amazing organization started ten years ago by arts writer and reviewer John Moore. It has now disbursed over a million dollars to members of the theater community with medical needs. I have admired John for his work for years--I really...
Phamaly’s Proud History Honored at This Year’s Henry Awards
Kathleen Traylor knew that she wanted to act when she was a teen, but her therapist told her that goal was unrealistic. Traylor was born with amniotic band syndrome, which is caused by damage to the mother’s amniotic sac; when she was nine months old, her left leg was...
BDT Stage, a Boulder Fixture, Faces Shutdown
This article originally appeared in Westword. BDT Stage — or, as it was known in the beginning, Boulder’s Dinner Theatre — has occupied a home on 55th Street and Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder for 46 years. Now we’ve learned that the site has been sold for $5.5 million by...
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...
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...
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