Email Author D.L. Groover

Awards

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

  "Imperfect Score"

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2007 Stories by D.L. Groover

• Capsule Stage Reviews: A Christmas Carol, Christmas Tree-O, Mr. Pim Passes By, Sister's Christmas Catechism, The Twelve Ways of Christmas, A Wonderful Life

  published December 20, 2007

  A Christmas Carol Among the charms of December in Houston is the Alley Theatre's annual production of A Christmas Carol, Charles... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Annie, Christmas Tree-O, A Fertle Holiday, Sister's Christmas Catechism, The Twelve Ways of Christmas

  published December 13, 2007

  Annie This wonderfully tuneful throwback to '50s Broadway hit the jackpot when it opened in 1977 and has been a moneymaking... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Mr. Pim Passes By, Over the River and Through the Woods, Sister's Christmas Catechism, The Twelve Ways of Christmas

  published December 6, 2007

  Mr. Pim Passes By Winnie the Pooh's dapper creator A. A. Milne wrote for grown-ups, too. His 1919 featherweight farce Mr. Pim... More >>

• The Conduct of Life

  published December 6, 2007

  The Conduct of Life isn't easy to like. More polemic than play, its brutal depiction of man's inhumanity shocks rather than... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Christmas Tree-O, Diva, Over the River and Through the Woods

  published November 29, 2007

  Christmas Tree-O In a world that seems overwhelmed by ever-encroaching secular progressiveness, it's refreshing to find Christ... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Christmas Tree-O, Over the River and Through the Woods and The Scene

  published November 22, 2007

  Christmas Tree-O In a world that seems overwhelmed by ever-encroaching secular progressiveness, it's refreshing to find Christ... More >>

• Gypsy

  published November 22, 2007

  One of the greatest of all musicals, Gypsy (1959), by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, is also one of the most... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews: Fools, The Marriage of Figaro, Over the River and Through the Woods, Rough Night at the Remo Room, The Scene

  published November 15, 2007

  Fools Community theater gets a bad rap, but Theatre Southwest proves it can be wonderfully charming with its latest production of... More >>

• Diva

  published November 15, 2007

  Faded film star Deanna Denninger (Celeste Roberts), the diva of Theater LaB's Diva, is the first to admit that she "didn't fuck Harvey... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews: Arsenic and Old Lace, Black Pearl Sings, The Daughter of the Regiment, Fools and Rumors

  published November 1, 2007

  Arsenic and Old Lace It may be old, but it's certainly not weary — Joseph Kesselring's murderous comedy premiered on Broadway... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews: Arsenic and Old Lace, Rough Night at the Remo Room, Rumors, Sleeping Beauty and A Streetcar Named Desire

  published October 25, 2007

  Arsenic and Old Lace It may be old, but it's certainly not weary — Joseph Kesselring's murderous comedy premiered on Broadway... More >>

• Sylvia, A Masked Ball

  published October 25, 2007

  That old showbiz axiom — work with dogs, risk being upstaged — receives a refreshing swat across the snout in A.R. Gurney's... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews: Blue, Dreamgirls, Rumors, Sordid Lives and A Streetcar Named Desire

  published October 18, 2007

  Blue Playwright Charles Randolph-Wright creates an indomitable character in his black family drama from 2001. Elegant Peggy Clark... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Blue, Jeannette Clift George Onstage, Musical of Musicals, the Musical! and Sordid Lives

  published October 11, 2007

  Blue Playwright Charles Randolph-Wright creates an indomitable character in his black family drama from 2001. Elegant Peggy Clark... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published October 4, 2007

  Blue Playwright Charles Randolph-Wright creates an indomitable character in his black family drama from 2001. Elegant Peggy Clark... More >>

• Musical of Musicals, the Musical!

  published October 4, 2007

  f you're a fan of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Kander and Ebb, then the ultra-fabulous... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published September 27, 2007

  Jeannette Clift George Onstage If Houston stage veteran Jeannette Clift George decided to read from the Yellow Pages, she could... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published September 20, 2007

  Jeannette Clift George Onstage If Houston stage veteran Jeannette Clift George decided to read from the Yellow Pages, she could... More >>

• Souvenir

  published September 20, 2007

  If any playwright had written a character remotely like singing New York society matron Florence Foster Jenkins, no one would believe it. Yet... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published September 13, 2007

  The Best Man Main Street Theater's season opener is a political drama filled with the sort of emotional wreckage that hard... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published September 6, 2007

  Late Nite Catechism You don't have to be Catholic to love Late Nite Catechism, the "one-sister" show running at Stages Repertory... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published August 30, 2007

  Forever Hold Your Peace The singing Fertle Family is back with a story nothing short of hilarious. As the eve of Gwenda and Uncle... More >>

• Notes on a Scandal

  published August 30, 2007

  There was a time in American pop culture when the audience believed what they saw on TV, especially the "game shows" — The $64,000... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published August 23, 2007

  Forever Hold Your Peace The singing Fertle Family is back with a story nothing short of hilarious. As the eve of Gwenda and Uncle... More >>

• tempOdyssey

  published August 23, 2007

  Life is a temp job. Just ask Genny (Amy Hopper), the heroine, of sorts, of Dan Dietz's phantasmagoric, coruscating tempOdyssey,... More >>