Email Author D.L. Groover

Awards

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

  "Imperfect Score"

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2006 Stories by D.L. Groover

• Capsule Reviews

  published August 10, 2006

  The Lion King The Elton John/Tim Rice international mega-hit returns to Houston, with all its glaring faults and scenic... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published August 3, 2006

  Black Comedy The Alley Theatre's Summer Chills season is supposed to provide Houstonians breezy, easy shows that will distract us... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 27, 2006

  Black Comedy The Alley Theatre's Summer Chills season is supposed to provide Houstonians breezy, easy shows that will distract us... More >>

• Private Perfection

  published July 20, 2006

  No other play so perfectly embodies the spirit of Art Deco than Private Lives, Nool Coward's brittle, comedic battle of the sexes,... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 20, 2006

  Incorruptible The Company OnStage, out at old Westbury Square, is true old-fashioned community theater. There's a... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 6, 2006

  Hotter than Houston St. Peter doesn't know what to do with Stan Wetzel. Stan's not bad enough for hell, but he's certainly not... More >>

• Shine It Up

  published June 29, 2006

  For a musical that preaches against the evils of drug use and graphically shows the deleterious effects upon abuser and loved ones alike,... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 29, 2006

  All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go There's a play buried somewhere inside Catherine Filloux's comedy/drama about transvestites vs. the... More >>

• In Bloom

  published June 22, 2006

  Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon's Tony Award-winning adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's famed 1911 children's novel The Secret... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 22, 2006

  Impossible Marriage In Beth Henley's stylized Southern universe (she's best known for her prize-winning Crimes of the Heart... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 15, 2006

  All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go There's a play buried somewhere inside Catherine Filloux's comedy/drama about transvestites vs. the... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 8, 2006

  All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go There's a play buried somewhere inside Catherine Filloux's comedy/drama about transvestites vs. the... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 1, 2006

  Bombay Dreams Set inside Bombay's thriving Hindu film industry (bigger than Hollywood and just as pervasive), this new hit musical... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 25, 2006

  The Chalk Garden Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden is an old-fashioned English yarn about a governess with a dark secret who's... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 18, 2006

  The Chalk Garden Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden is an old-fashioned English yarn about a governess with a dark... More >>

• You Can't Stop History

  published May 11, 2006

  By definition, a museum is a repository of the past, and what's placed on the pedestals is studied, honored and admired. In George C. Wolfe's... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 11, 2006

  The Chalk Garden Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden is an old-fashioned English yarn about a governess with a dark secret who's... More >>

• Delicious Debauchery

  published May 4, 2006

  In The Sign of the Cross, Cecil B. DeMille's magnificent 1932 epic film about Nero's persecution of the early Christians, the debauched... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 4, 2006

  Carmen If you were going to be remembered for only one opera in your prolific career, you'd do no worse than Carmen.... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published April 27, 2006

  Asshole Parade The Brazosport Li'l Players is a motley group of renegades, put together in large part by players at Infernal... More >>

• Messing with Molière

  published April 20, 2006

  Mon Dieu, what the hell is going on downtown? David Ball's sexed-up pop adaptation of Molière's classic farce The Miser, c... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published April 20, 2006

  Carmen If you were going to be remembered for only one opera in your prolific career, you'd do no worse than Carmen. Composer... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published April 13, 2006

  Closer Love goes terribly wrong in Patrick Marber's award-winning Closer, which is given a very adult spin by Country... More >>

• Portrait of an "Old Lady"

  published April 6, 2006

  In darkness, the soft, plaintive wailing of a cantor is suddenly broken off by bursts of gunfire, flashes of explosions and the deafening drone of... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published April 6, 2006

  Ouroboros Tom Jacobson's Ouroboros might be one of the most richly textured works Main Street Theater has put on in years.... More >>