Making A Theme Widget Capable

I tested out a theme that I want to use that is not Widget capable. When installed, there was no place to drag any widgets and it said the them does not support widgets. I’ve since cancelled the host site I was using, and have not yet signed on to another. I wanted to be sure I could use this theme before doing that. It’s the Manifest theme by Jim Barraud if anyone is familiar with it. It works great over on wordpress.com, but that appears to be a different version than what the author has available for download. I haven’t found way to reach the author either, he’s not responding in Twitter or Linkedin. Any help would be appreciated on how to make this theme use widgets. I don’t want any sidebars, just want it to be able to do what it does on wordpress.com … here is where I have it as a free host:
http://mymusingsbystudioreflections.wordpress.com/