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

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published August 16, 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 >>

• Late Nite Catechism

  published August 16, 2007

  To paraphrase the old advertisement for Levy's Jewish Rye Bread, you don't have to be Catholic to love Late Nite Catechism, the... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published August 9, 2007

  Houston Shakespeare Festival Forget the endless rain, the suffocating heat, the blasted bugs — now is the summer of love at the... More >>

• Grease and Guys and Dolls

  published July 26, 2007

  Except for Masquerade Theatre, what other company this side of the bayou can produce, in back-to-back rep, two so completely different musicals... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published July 26, 2007

  Always...Patsy Cline Ted Swindley, former founding director of Houston's Stages Repertory Theatre, created this ultimate... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published July 19, 2007

  Always...Patsy Cline Ted Swindley, former founding director of Houston's Stages Repertory Theatre, created this ultimate... More >>

• One Monkey Don't Stop No Show

  published July 5, 2007

  The Ensemble Theatre is bringing the '70s golden age of black TV sitcoms to the stage with its revival of Don Evans's One Monkey Don't Stop... More >>

• Opera Vista

  published June 28, 2007

  Watching Opera Vista's exhilarating inaugural program last weekend (June 21–24), one thing's certain: In the contemporary world of... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published June 28, 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 >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published June 21, 2007

  Fiddler on the Roof In 1964, Jerry Bock (music), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) and Joseph Stein (book) created this brilliant Broadway... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published June 14, 2007

  Coppélia Houston Ballet's current run of the beloved classic Coppélia will delight fans of big-spectacle, happy s... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published June 7, 2007

  It Could Be Any One of Us English playwright Alan Ayckbourn has to be one of history's most prolific writers for the stage. As of... More >>

• Treasure Island

  published May 31, 2007

  After sitting, slack-jawed and seething, through the Alley Theatre's world-premiere adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published May 31, 2007

  Design for Living Noël Coward's Design for Living (1933) can be neatly summed up by Leo, one of the trio of main characters, as ... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published May 24, 2007

  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Stephen Sondheim supplied writers Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove with this show's... More >>

• Noël, Noël

  published May 17, 2007

  he multitalented Noël Coward (English playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, director, producer, superstar) was so circumspect about his gay life, h... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published May 17, 2007

  The Clean House Truly fine in so many ways, Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House is thrilling, surprising and artful. The lovely... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published May 10, 2007

  Cunning Little Vixen Although a friend of fellow countryman Antonin Dvorák, Idiosyncratic Czech composer Leos Janácek remained unfazed by... More >>

• Take Away the Lady

  published May 3, 2007

  If you relish a finely tuned, old-fashioned English-drawing-room murder mystery, the kind where everyone has a bloody good motive for doing the... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published May 3, 2007

  Galley Proof Jeannette Clift George's tale of Moses and his wayward Israelites is given the intimate, let's-put-on-a-show... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published April 26, 2007

  Aïda Giuseppe Verdi's Aïda (1871) is supposed to knock our socks off aurally and visually, with moonlit temples on the banks of th... More >>

• Aïda

  published April 19, 2007

  Remember cheesy B-movies? Set in exotic locales, feebly constructed out of pasteboard and duct tape, these camp quickies were shot on the run... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published April 19, 2007

  Corpus Christi Unhinged Productions presents a play that, in 1998, inspired both American Catholic condemnation and a London-based... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published April 12, 2007

  Anna in the Tropics In this show, the heat's on right from the beginning. Awaiting the new "lector" who's been hired to read to them... More >>

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  published April 5, 2007

  Anna in the Tropics In this show, the heat's on right from the beginning. Awaiting the new "lector" who's been hired to read to them... More >>