Email Author D.L. Groover

Awards

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published March 10, 2005

  "Imperfect Score"

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2013 Stories by D.L. Groover

• Facing the Blunt Force Drama of Race

  published May 16, 2013

  The title of David Mamet's last successful play is a four-letter word. Race. Surprise? Mamet is the Shakespeare of the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Chinglish, MBTV, Ravenscroft, Six Degrees of Separation, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Tribute

  published May 16, 2013

  Chinglish A businessman from Cleveland travels to China seeking a contract to create signage, using as an interpreter an alleged... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Artifice Eight, Ravenscroft, Tribute, Wildest Dreams

  published May 9, 2013

  Artifice Eight's vivid and very varied characters are invited to a private showing of art, but trapped into an overnight stay thanks to a... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Artifice Eight, The Elephant Man, Falstaff, The Night of the Iguana, Tristan and Isolde

  published May 2, 2013

  Artifice Eight's vivid and very varied characters are invited to a private showing of art, but trapped into an overnight stay thanks to a... More >>

• The Elephant Man: The Light Within

  published April 25, 2013

  Strapping, handsome and near naked, actor Jay Sullivan is sculpted under the white hot light of a medical school lecture hall. His immense and... More >>

• Standing Up for Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

  published April 25, 2013

  Star Light Hail, Nina Stemme, goddess of opera! Hail, Houston Grand Opera for bringing her... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Dollhouse, Henry V, Kimberly Akimbo, The Night of the Iguana,

  published April 25, 2013

  Dollhouse Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play A Doll's House remains hugely popular, and Chicago's Goodman Theatre commissioned Rebecca Gilman... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Dollhouse, Henry V, The Night of the Iguana, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

  published April 18, 2013

  Dollhouse Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play A Doll's House remains hugely popular, and Chicago's Goodman Theatre commissioned Rebecca Gilman... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Dollhouse, Henry V, Mauritius, Waiting for Godot

  published April 11, 2013

  Dollhouse Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play A Doll's House remains hugely popular, and Chicago's Goodman Theatre commissioned Rebecca Gilman... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Broke-ology, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Waiting for Godot

  published April 4, 2013

  Broke-ology A father has medical problems, and two sons cope with his increasing need for care while pursuing their own lives and... More >>

• Henry V: Good Prince Henry

  published March 28, 2013

  While we are thrillingly led "once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" in Main Street Theater's sterling production of Shakespeare's... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Broadway at the Box, Broke-ology, Company, Jersey Boys, Waiting for Godot

  published March 28, 2013

  Broadway at the Box The Music Box Theater is a repertory group of three women and two men — they sing, they dance, they act, they... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Company, Broadway at the Box, Man of Destiny and Dark Lady of the Sonnets

  published March 21, 2013

  Company Bracing and potent as a vodka stinger, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's mordant, multiple Tony Award-winning "musical comedy" on... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Broadway at the Box, The First Church of Texaco, God of Carnage, Man of La Mancha

  published March 7, 2013

  Broadway at the Box The Music Box Theater is a repertory group of three women and two men — they sing, they dance, they act, they... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The First Church of Texaco, God of Carnage, The Language Archive, Paradise Hotel

  published February 28, 2013

  The First Church of Texaco A corporate tycoon returns to his roots in an abandoned gas station in Blessing, Texas, and hires the local... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The First Church of Texaco, The Language Archive, True West

  published February 21, 2013

  The First Church of Texaco A corporate tycoon returns to his roots in an abandoned gas station in Blessing, Texas, and hires the local... More >>

• Throw Back

  published February 14, 2013

  The pedigree for the musical Catch Me If You Can, based on the somewhat fictionalized biography of Frank Abagnale, Jr., security and... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Broadway at the Box, Knock Me a Kiss, The Lion in Winter, The Young Man from Atlanta

  published February 14, 2013

  Broadway at the Box The Music Box Theater is a repertory group of three women and two men — they sing, they dance, they act, they... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Don Giovanni, Knock Me a Kiss, The Lion in Winter, Macbeth

  published February 7, 2013

  Don Giovanni Houston Grand Opera shoots off fireworks in a return of the classically elegant Gören Järvefelt production of Mozart... More >>

• Clybourne Park at the Alley

  published January 31, 2013

  'If we could all just sit down together at one big table and..." Eisenhower-era housewife Bev (Elizabeth Bunch) doesn't finish her... More >>

• Hamlet Goes to College

  published January 31, 2013

  Martin Luther, the radical father of the Protestant reformation, taught theology at Wittenberg University, Germany's most prestigious institute of... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Broadway at the Box, Camelot, Don Giovanni, Fishing, The Lion in Winter, The Mountaintop, Showboat

  published January 31, 2013

  Broadway at the Box The Music Box Theater is a repertory group of three women and two men — they sing, they dance, they act, they... More >>

• Rowboat

  published January 24, 2013

  As soon as the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-seller premiered on Broadway in 1927, American musical... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Memory House, The Mountaintop, Private Lives, Ubu Roi (King Ubu), The Young Man from Atlanta

  published January 24, 2013

  Memory House A mother attempts to connect with her adopted daughter, while the daughter works on finishing an essay required for a college... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Boys in the Band, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Submission, The Young Man from Atlanta

  published January 17, 2013

  The Boys in the Band Mart Crowley's historic gay play (1968) is the mother of them all. When it premiered off-Broadway a full year before... More >>