by Juliet.Wittman | Mar 23, 2021 | Theatre, Westword
“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...
by Juliet Wittman | Apr 5, 2020 | Theatre
As the theatre scene implodes, with companies canceling spring seasons and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival going dark this summer, as directors wonder if they can keep their organizations alive in the long term, and artists worry about paying the rent, another...
by Juliet.Wittman | Aug 6, 2019 | Theatre
I’d promised myself I wouldn’t use words like “inspirational” or “life-affirming” to describe the production of Chicago by Phamaly, a company made up entirely of performers with disabilities. These performers are genuine artists who create professional — often...
by Juliet.Wittman | Jul 30, 2019 | Theatre
I first saw Leonard Barrett in 2004, when he was starring as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, staged by the Phamaly Theatre Company at the Space Theatre at the Denver Center. His performance was intriguing, stylish and poised, yet at the same time entirely his own: He...
by Juliet.Wittman | Jul 24, 2019 | Theatre
In Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III: A Future History Play, currently in a regional premiere as part of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s summer lineup, Queen Elizabeth II has died, and Prince Charles — who’s past seventy— has ascended to the throne. He’s grieving...
by Juliet.Wittman | Jun 28, 2019 | Theatre
Buntport Benefit Some eighteen years ago, six actor-writers who had met as students at Colorado College got together to create Buntport, a kind of theater that’s entirely original, in a coldly echoing Denver warehouse. They are Erin Rollman, Brian Colonna, Hannah...
by Juliet.Wittman | Jun 26, 2019 | Theatre
As You Like It Four years ago, Kent Thompson, then the artistic director at the Denver Center, staged a magical production of As You Like It. I remember it in clear, drifting pastels—gorgeous costumes and set, a transcendently beautiful Rosalind, and an interpretation...
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