JULIET WITTMAN
FICTION. MEMOIR. CRITICISM. JOURNALISMRecent blog posts by Juliet
Aurora Fox Asks: “What Would You Do If You Only Had a Hundred Days to Live?”
This article originally appeared in Westword. Hundred Days, which receives its regional premiere at the Aurora Fox on Friday, September 17, and runs until October 10, is a vivid musical memoir by real-life couple Shaun and Abigail Bergson with Sarah Gancher about how...
Playwright John Ashton Debuts Before You Go at Miners Alley
This article originally appeared in Westword. John Ashton is well known in the Denver theater world and has worn many hats: actor, director, playwright and impresario. He ran the cozy, late-lamented Avenue Theater for several years, and his play Murder Most Fowl was...
Buntport Theater’s Back With Opera Criticism, People in Boxes and Ugly Crying
This article was originally published in Westword. Five creatives have been surprising Denver with original plays and performances at Buntport Theater for over twenty years, and the four members who perform (the fifth, SamAnTha Schmitz, collaborates on all aspects but...
Curious Theatre Company Announces a New Season Amid Trepidation and Hope
This post first appeared in Westword When passionate calls arose after the murder of George Floyd for all artists to play their role in the anti-racist struggle, Curious was ahead of the pack, having been focused since the beginning on issues of social justice...
Miners Alley Playhouse Returns With an Intergenerational Treasure
This article originally appeared in Westword. Len Matheo, artistic director at Miners Alley Playhouse, kept the creativity coming during the pandemic, producing events from kids’ shows to streaming dramas to musical cabarets. Pre-COVID, the company staged an...
BETC Takes Flight With New Name, the Butterfly Effect, and JQA
BETC Takes Flight With New Name, the Butterfly Effect, and JQA Aaron Posner’s JQA is a play about John Quincy Adams, generally regarded as an ineffectual president but a highly principled statesman. It has been hailed as brilliant by many critics who say the...
Buntport Theater Makes a Case for Space…and Creativity
This article originally appeared in Westword. No theater company in the country is quite like Buntport. This group of five local creatives — Brian Colonna, Hannah Duggan, Erin Rollman, Erik Edborg and SamAnTha Schmitz — stages entirely original productions. The...
After a Season in the Dark, Benchmark Plans for the Future
This article originally appeared in Westword. Where there was once a bustling Denver theater scene becoming more interesting by the year — more experimentation, funkier musicals, explorations of race, sex and identity, immersive events featuring food and drink...
BDT Stage Reopens
This article originally appeared in Westword under the title, "Intermission Is Over at BDT Stage." On the day I spoke with artistic director Michael J. Duran to discuss the upcoming reopening of BDT Stage, Alicia Meyers, longtime actor-director-choreographer...
Goodbye Story
"This story is originally published by Westword as "Curtain Call: Reflections on Two Decades of Reviewing Denver Theater" Sometimes you find yourself sitting in a drafty, ramshackle room on a winter’s night, rain splattering the floor, an audience of...
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