Email Author D.L. Groover

Awards

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

  "Imperfect Score"

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2005 Stories by D.L. Groover

• Delightful Dysfunction

  published December 29, 2005

  In A Fertle Holiday, a nice little family unit takes a Christmas trip to see their Fertle relatives, stopping at a Motel 6 along the... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published December 22, 2005

  A Christmas Carol This season, the Alley Theatre has cobbled together a new version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol,... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published December 15, 2005

  A Christmas Story Country Playhouse bathes Jean Shepherd's nostalgia-laden Christmas memoirs of his 1930s boyhood in a deep autumnal... More >>

• Error Message

  published December 8, 2005

  Clare Boothe Luce has described her play Margin for Error as a "satirical melodrama." In fact, the work is that and more: It's at... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published December 8, 2005

  A Christmas Carol This season, the Alley Theatre has cobbled together a new version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol,... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published December 1, 2005

  Align The holidays usually bring frothy good fun to the theater. But A.D. Players, Houston's Christian theater group, have a whole... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published November 24, 2005

  Align The holidays usually bring frothy good fun to the theater. But A.D. Players, Houston's Christian theater group, have a whole... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published November 17, 2005

  Envy the Cockroach If you just can't get enough of "chicks behind bars" exploitation dramas -- like those cheesy Roger... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published November 10, 2005

  The Marriage of Figaro Mozart's sublime operatic comedy of manners from 1786 is a masterpiece. It has everything: radiant melody,... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published November 3, 2005

  Boris Godunov To open its 51st season, Houston Grand Opera has picked a royal winner, Modest Mussorgsky's masterpiece Boris... More >>

• Shining Czar

  published October 27, 2005

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• Capsule Reviews

  published October 27, 2005

  Doo Wop II the Sequel According to Big Mama in the Great Caruso's latest musical revue, doo wop was an incantatory musical potion... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published October 20, 2005

  All in the Timing If, in showbiz, timing is everything, then Country Playhouse's production of these six David Ives comedies is as... More >>

• Poor Baby

  published October 13, 2005

  Saying anything even slightly negative about Ken Ludwig's ultra-nice, insignificant world-premiere comedy Be My Baby, presented by... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published October 13, 2005

  By the Bogs of Cats The past weighs heavily upon the residents of the desolate, wind-swept peat bogs of rural Ireland -- especially... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published October 6, 2005

  By the Bogs of Cats The past weighs heavily upon the residents of the desolate, wind-swept peat bogs of rural Ireland -- especially... More >>

• She Spies

  published September 29, 2005

  If there's any certainty in contemporary theater, it's that any work by Tom Stoppard is going to be a five-ticket ride. One of the foremost... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published September 29, 2005

  An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf Michael Hollinger's play, now running at Main Street Theater, is a most unusual c... More >>

• Highway to Hell

  published September 22, 2005

  We're in Berlin. It's the end of June 1934. Hungover Max (Steve Bullitt) can't remember the trick he's brought back to the apartment he shares... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published September 22, 2005

  An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf Michael Hollinger's play, now running at Main Street Theater, is a most unusual c... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published September 15, 2005

  Assassins For Broadway hep cats, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1990 cult musical about presidential assassins may be catnip,... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published September 8, 2005

  Doo Wop II the Sequel According to Big Mama in the Great Caruso's latest musical revue, doo wop was an incantatory musical potion... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published September 1, 2005

  Honky Tonk Angels The three women who populate Ted Swindley's surprisingly mediocre Honky Tonk Angels have a dream.... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published August 25, 2005

  Anne of Green Gables There's probably no better fodder for a musical than Lucy Maud Montgomery's perennial 1908 children's... More >>

• Go, Shorties

  published August 18, 2005

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