Email Author D.L. Groover

Awards

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

  "Imperfect Score"

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2008 Stories by D.L. Groover

• Madness abounds in The Bacchae

  published August 14, 2008

  The young god Dionysus is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. He's on a rampage and the city of Thebes is his ground zero. Its proud,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Annual Festival of Originals, Electile Dysfunction, Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming

  published August 7, 2008

  The Annual Festival of Originals For 11 years, hungry playwrights from across the country have been submitting their scripts in... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Electile Dysfunction, Little Women, Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming, Snoopy

  published July 31, 2008

  Electile Dysfunction Radio Music Theatre has tackled the wild and wacky political season with this funny play, which is full of... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Oklahoma!, Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming, Snoopy, Yeomen of the Guard

  published July 24, 2008

  Oklahoma! Ever since its premiere in 1943, the first Broadway collaboration between veteran composer Richard Rodgers and veteran... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Ain't Misbehavin', Snoopy, The Tamarie Cooper Show, War of the Roses

  published July 17, 2008

  Ain't Misbehavin' By day, Thomas "Fats" Waller sold beboppy tunes on Tin Pan Alley. Come nighttime, when all the cool cats were... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Ain't Misbehavin', Electile Dysfunction, Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming, Snoopy, The Tamarie Cooper Show

  published July 10, 2008

  Ain't Misbehavin' By day, Thomas "Fats" Waller sold beboppy tunes on Tin Pan Alley. Come nighttime, when all the cool cats were... More >>

• Nova Arts Project's ambitious War of the Roses actually works

  published July 10, 2008

  Audacity, thy name is Nova Arts Project. For its epic cycle of Shakespearean history plays War of the Roses, this feisty... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Electile Dysfunction, Exit the Body, Gilligan's Island, Moments in a Decade

  published June 26, 2008

  Electile Dysfunction Radio Music Theatre has tackled the wild and wacky political season with this funny play, which is full of... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Electile Dysfunction, Present Laughter

  published June 19, 2008

  bare Damon Intrabartolo (music and book) and Jon Hartmere (book and lyrics) call their vigorous and entertaining R-rated musical... More >>

• Mindless Fun

  published June 19, 2008

  Sitcom classic Gilligan's Island has been in syndication for so long, it's a shock to realize that it ran on CBS for only three seasons,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Big Range Dance Festival, Electile Dysfunction, La Sylphide and A Doll's House, Present Laughter, The Splasher

  published June 12, 2008

  bare Damon Intrabartolo (music and book) and Jon Hartmere (book and lyrics) call their vigorous and entertaining R-rated musical set at... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Bright Lights, Big City, Present Laughter, Time of My Life, The Splasher, Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

  published June 5, 2008

  Bright Lights, Big City In 1984, Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, a narrative about the bacchanalian, cocaine-snorting... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Drowsy Chaperone, The Heiress, Mr. Marmalade, Present Laughter, Time of My Life, The Vagina Monologues

  published May 29, 2008

  The Drowsy Chaperone Thank you, Canada! If that country didn't produce anything else in its history, it would forever have our... More >>

• Isn't It a Pity: The Gershwins' An American in Paris

  published May 29, 2008

  Except for a few establishing long shots and some introductory stock footage, every frame of MGM's 1951 Academy Award-winner An American in... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Ashes to Africa, The Heiress, Time of My Life, The Vagina Monologues, You Can't Take It With You

  published May 22, 2008

  Ashes to Africa Everything from death to sexual dysfunction troubles the Henderson family. Grandma's about to kick it, Mom's... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Ashes to Africa, The Heiress, Time of My Life, The Wedding Singer, You Can't Take It With You

  published May 15, 2008

  Ashes to Africa Everything from death to sexual dysfunction troubles the Henderson family. Grandma's about to kick it, Mom's... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Billy Budd, The Heiress, One Flea Spare, Time of My Life

  published May 8, 2008

  Billy Budd Throughout Houston Grand Opera's Billy Budd (1951), an unseaworthy mechanical gizmo spins on stage — it's... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: La Bohème, One Flea Spare, Twelve Angry Men

  published May 1, 2008

  La Bohème It doesn't really matter that there's no passion or fire between Ana Maria Martinez and Garrett Sorenson in... More >>

• Ignore the set of Billy Budd, and you'll hear a masterpiece

  published May 1, 2008

  Throughout Houston Grand Opera's Billy Budd (1951), an unseaworthy mechanical gizmo spins on stage — it's an annoying... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: La Bohème, Leading Ladies, Love Loves a Pornographer, Rounding Third, Twelve Angry Men

  published April 24, 2008

  La Bohème It doesn't really matter that there's no passion or fire between Ana Maria Martinez and Garrett Sorenson in... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Gutenberg! The Musical!, La Bohème, Rounding Third, Underneath the Lintel, Young and Fertle

  published April 17, 2008

  Gutenberg! The Musical! Pirate Queen, Dance of the Vampires and Kelly – these were rank bombs all, made legendary by their... More >>

• Loving Love Loves a Pornographer

  published April 17, 2008

  It takes a few minutes to become acclimated to Nova Arts Project's immaculate staging of Love Loves a Pornographer, Jeff Goode's... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Gutenberg! The Musical!, Sty of the Blind Pig, Underneath the Lintel, Wit

  published April 10, 2008

  Gutenberg! The Musical! Pirate Queen, Dance of the Vampires and Kelly – these were rank bombs all,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Lucky Stiff, Pack of Lies, Sty of the Blind Pig, Underneath the Lintel, Wit

  published April 3, 2008

  Lucky Stiff The Tony Award-winning musical theater duo of Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music), creators of Ragtime,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Gutenberg! The Musical!, Othello, Pack of Lies, Young and Fertle,

  published March 27, 2008

  Gutenberg! The Musical! Pirate Queen, Dance of the Vampires and Kelly – these were rank bombs all, made... More >>