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

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Steel Magnolias, The Story of Burford, Category 5, The Tamarie Cooper Show: Journey to the Center of My Brain (in 3-D)

  published August 27, 2009

  Steel Magnolias Old-fashioned as it may be, Robert Harling's 1987 comedy-drama about a girl who suffers from complications from... More >>

• "Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas"

  published August 27, 2009

  Houston-born artist Jason Villegas loves stuffed animals. But the plush toys of "Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas" are not the warm and... More >>

• The House by the Cemetery

  published August 27, 2009

  Before the credits even roll, a sexy young thing is knifed through the back of her head with the blade protruding out of her mouth. She's then... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Steel Magnolias, The Story of Burford, Category 5, The Tamarie Cooper Show: Journey to the Center of My Brain (in 3-D)

  published August 20, 2009

  Steel Magnolias Old-fashioned as it may be, Robert Harling's 1987 comedy-drama about a girl who suffers from complications from... More >>

• All In a Day's Work

  published August 20, 2009

  "I work my ass off," says an Oregon lumberjack in David Fenster's documentary Wood, without much emotion or pride. He's just doing his job,... More >>

• S certy nejsou zerty

  published August 20, 2009

  These Czechs are for kids. And kids of all ages. Loosely translated as Don't Mess With Devils, or maybe No Jokes in Hell, S certy nejsou... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Last Easter, Sherlock Holmes and the Crucifer of Blood, Steel Magnolias, The Tamarie Cooper Show: Journey to the Center of My Brain (in 3-D)

  published August 13, 2009

  Last Easter Bad English accents swirl through Bryony Lavery's confessional drama presented by Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company,... More >>

• Three Nights of Movie Musicals

  published August 13, 2009

  Join Eliza (Audrey Hepburn) as she learns how to properly enunciate the King's English, as taught by Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in... More >>

• Z

  published August 13, 2009

  When Costa-Gavras's visceral, muscular political thriller Z opened in the U.S. in December 1969, Americans had been through Nixon's... More >>

• Dear Mr. Waldman

  published August 6, 2009

  In Hanan Peled’s richly evocative world, the past is never truly in the past, nor is it ever easily forgotten. As the final movie of the... More >>

• Laila’s Birthday

  published August 6, 2009

  In writer/director Rashid Masharawi’s light-hearted Palestinian romp Laila’s Birthday — yes, Palestinians actually... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Andrews Brothers, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Phantom of the Opera, Ps and Qs: the ABCs of Manners

  published July 30, 2009

  Andrews Brothers If there's a king of jukebox musicals, surely it's Roger Bean from Milwaukee Rep, who's created at least nine... More >>

• Fresh Producers

  published July 30, 2009

  It's not only the big things that Masquerade Theatre gets right in its deliriously entertaining production of Mel Brooks's politically incorrect... More >>

• Game 6

  published July 30, 2009

  Writing a blockbuster movie that mixes baseball and Broadway ain't easy. Just ask dark, fatalistic postmodern author Don DeLillo... More >>

• Cape No. 7

  published July 30, 2009

  You’ve seen it hundreds of times - against all odds, adorable misfits make good. Let director Wei Te-Sheng convince you how such a tired... More >>

• Last Easter

  published July 30, 2009

  Any play that works Irving Berlin, the incomparable Baroque painter Caravaggio and Judy Garland all into the plot needs to be seen. Such is the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Phantom of the Opera, Ps and Qs: the ABCs of Manners, Sherlock Holmes and the Crucifer of Blood

  published July 23, 2009

  Best Little Whorehouse in Texas If Country Playhouse listens to its audience, the theater will cancel the rest of the season and... More >>

• Deadgirl

  published July 23, 2009

  What would you do if you and your slacker high school friend (Shiloh Fernandez from Gossip Girl and Noah Segan from Cabin Fever 2)... More >>

• Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)

  published July 23, 2009

  The French "new wave" loved the Hollywood crime movies of the '40s, with their perennially wet streets, shadowy velvet cinematography, antiheroic... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Phantom of the Opera, Reckless, The Wiz

  published July 16, 2009

  Best Little Whorehouse in Texas If Country Playhouse listens to its audience, the theater will cancel the rest of the season and... More >>

• Spacefest: 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

  published July 16, 2009

  Once commander Neil Armstrong planted his big old silver-foiled boot on the moon on July 20, 1969, nothing on earth was ever the same again.... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Reckless, Steel Magnolias, The Story of Burford, Category 5, The Wiz

  published July 9, 2009

  Reckless Although her louse of a husband has just confessed to hiring a hit man to kill her — on Christmas Eve, no less... More >>

• Domy Movie Nights: Holy Mountain

  published July 9, 2009

  If you thought that Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo (1971) was an acid trip and a half, wait until you see his follow-up, Holy... More >>

• New French Shorts

  published July 9, 2009

  All right, you Francophiles, celebrate your love of Sarkozy, champagne and truffles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with New French... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Reckless, The Story of Burford, Category 5, The Wiz

  published July 2, 2009

  Reckless Although her louse of a husband has just confessed to hiring a hit man to kill her — on Christmas Eve, no less... More >>