Email Author D.L. Groover

Awards

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

  "Imperfect Score"

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2009 Stories by D.L. Groover

• Out in the Silence

  published October 22, 2009

  After filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer were married in Canada in 2004, Wilson posted an announcement of the gay nuptials in his hometown... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Little Shop of Horrors, Seven Guitars, Red Light Winter, Our Town,

  published October 15, 2009

  Little Shop of Horrors Texas Repertory Theatre, the little theater that could, is showing that classic little show that could,... More >>

• Cinemad Almanac 2009 DVD Release Party

  published October 15, 2009

  Experimental filmmaker Deborah Stratman (From Hetty to Nancy, Kings of the Sky) once told Mike Plante, editor of Aurora Picture... More >>

• Copyright Infringement

  published October 15, 2009

  It's rap meets Wall Street when recording artists and lawyers square off in Copyright Criminals, a PBS documentary by Benjamin... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Southern Rapture, The House of the Spirits, Night of the Giant, Seven Guitars

  published October 8, 2009

  Angels in America In 1996, a regional theater in Charlotte, North Carolina, produced Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama... More >>

• Rent Me

  published October 8, 2009

  Turning the beloved movie Meet Me in St. Louis into Broadway fodder is a no-win situation. One of Hollywood's pre-eminent musicals,... More >>

• Feed Me

  published October 8, 2009

  Meanwhile, the intimate Texas Repertory Theatre uptown is doing things right. This little theater that could is showing that classic little show... More >>

• Latin American Left Film Festival

  published October 8, 2009

  Want a crash course in contemporary south-of-the-border politics? Six fascinating documentaries that comprise The New Latin American Left Film... More >>

• Chalk

  published October 8, 2009

  Mike Akel and Chris Mass's "mockumentary" about a year in the life of high school teachers, Chalk, can be described in one word -... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Southern Rapture, Night of the Giant, Oliver!, Seven Guitars

  published October 1, 2009

  Angels in America In 1996, a regional theater in Charlotte, North Carolina produced Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Angels in... More >>

• Target Free First Sunday: To the Moon and Beyond

  published October 1, 2009

  When professional magician and theater producer/director Georges Méliès saw a moving picture demonstration in 1895, he was... More >>

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

  published October 1, 2009

  Definitely one-of-a-kind, Robert Wiene's 1919 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari has always been listed near the top of filmdom's finest.... More >>

• Asian Film Festival: The World

  published October 1, 2009

  With one fifth of the world's population, the People's Republic of China literally has billions of stories to tell. Rice University's Asian... More >>

• A Disaster Begins

  published October 1, 2009

  Move over, Katrina. The greatest natural disaster in U.S. history was Galveston's Great Storm of 1900. The hurricane roared onto Galveston Island... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Mud, On the Town, Waiting in the Wings, Wayside Motor Inn

  published September 24, 2009

  Mud We are pleased to report there's new blood in town — theatrical blood, that is — coming at us in the form of Doorman... More >>

• Il Tabarro and Pagliacci

  published September 24, 2009

  Giacomo Puccini's Il Tabarro and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci are classics of Italian verismo. The style... More >>

• Seven's Heaven

  published September 24, 2009

  Forget the Astros - look to the Ensemble Theatre's production of Seven Guitars for a guaranteed home run. Whenever Ensemble produces... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Grease, Manon, Mud, On the Town, The Wayside Motor Inn

  published September 17, 2009

  Grease Those hormone-dripping greasers at Rydell High, the T-Birds and Pink Ladies, have not set high goals or buckled down and... More >>

• Crowded House

  published September 17, 2009

  Isabel Allende's sprawling South American saga, The House of the Spirits, has been adapted for the stage with an intimate touch.... More >>

• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

  published September 17, 2009

  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, a comedy of manners directed by Stanley Kramer, was nominated for a whopping ten Academy Awards. One... More >>

• Hedda Gabler

  published September 17, 2009

  The Grandfather of modern theater, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen loved theatrical noise: the wintry blizzard in Brand (1866), that... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Into the Woods, The House of Yes, The Lighter Side of the Recession

  published September 10, 2009

  Into the Woods This Tony winner from 1987 is Stephen Sondheim at his most accessible, and Pasadena Little Theatre performs the... More >>

• he Lighter Side of the Recession

  published September 10, 2009

  Sometimes, when a situation is really bad — like the state of the global economy — there’s nothing you can do but laugh. And what... More >>

• Ann Arbor Film Festival

  published September 10, 2009

  Except for Wolverine football and American cars, what else comes out of wintry Michigan? Try the Ann Arbor Film Festival. For 47 years... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Into the Woods

  published September 3, 2009

  Into the Woods This Tony winner from 1987 is Stephen Sondheim at his most accessible, and Pasadena Little Theatre performs the fairy-tale... More >>