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

• Made in the USA

  published July 2, 2009

  Although French cinemaster/provocateur Jean-Luc Godard always hinted that Made in the USA, his 1966 gangster movie, was an homage to... More >>

• The Big Sleep

  published July 2, 2009

  If you can't make sense out of Raymond Chandler's whodunit novel The Big Sleep, join the club. Nobel Prize laureate/screenwriter William... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Cabaret, The Farnsworth Invention, Grey Gardens, Thom Pain (based on nothing)

  published June 25, 2009

  Cabaret The Kit Kat Klub comes to deliciously naughty life once again with a newly imagined production of Cabaret from Theatre... More >>

• Project Row Houses: Classified X

  published June 25, 2009

  Filmmaker, novelist, Air Force bombardier, Wall Street trader, composer, actor and provocateur, Melvin Van Peebles loves to kick white butt. He... More >>

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Garden

  published June 25, 2009

  The most fruitful gardens are filled with worms and shit. After the deadly 1992 L.A. riots, known ever after as the “Rodney King” riots,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Beauty Queen of Leenane, Complete Works of William Shakespeare...Abridged, The Story of Burford, Category 5

  published June 18, 2009

  Beauty Queen of Leenane If you know anything about the works of playwright Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman, Lieutenant... More >>

• Credit Crisis

  published June 18, 2009

  Is it good planning or just good luck that the Alley Theatre programmed Aaron Sorkin's breathlessly entertaining television history pageant... More >>

• Artists on Film: In a Dream

  published June 18, 2009

  When he was making a documentary about his father, the late Isaiah Zagar, who was perhaps the most important mosaic folk artist in America,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Beauty Queen of Leenane, Big Range Dance Festival, Complete Works of William Shakespeare...Abridged, Urinetown

  published June 11, 2009

  Beauty Queen of Leenane If you know anything about the works of playwright Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman, Lieutenant... More >>

• The Boys in the Band

  published June 11, 2009

  In 1968, a full year before the era-changing Stonewall Riots put gays in the headlines, Mort Crowley’s play Boys in the Band put them... More >>

• Menil Movies: Cinematic Works from the Menil Archives

  published June 11, 2009

  When you think of an art film, you usually think of something with subtitles, directed by Bergman. How about an actual art film — you know,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Beauty Queen of Leenane, Big Range Dance Festival, Fiddler on the Roof, Of an Era

  published June 4, 2009

  Beauty Queen of Leenane If you know anything about the works of playwright Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman, Lieutenant... More >>

• Natural Disasters

  published June 4, 2009

  Jack Heifner's 1976 play Vanities ran for five years, and his musical revue Leader of the Pack (he wrote the book) was nominated for... More >>

• Loves of a Blonde

  published June 4, 2009

  Czech cinema came into its own, winning international acclaim, in the early '60s when the New Wave splashed all over everything. Loves of a... More >>

• Magical Gardens

  published May 28, 2009

  "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy." —Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being... More >>

• Slant 9: Bold Asian American Images

  published May 28, 2009

  Slant 9: Bold Asian American Images, Aurora Picture Show’s ninth annual film festival, breaks a few stereotypes with 11 quirky shorts.... More >>

• 8½

  published May 28, 2009

  8 1/2, Federico Fellini’s 1963 masterpiece — and Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film — did more than just make actor... More >>

• Naya Daur (New Age)

  published May 21, 2009

  It’s man vs. machine in B.R. Chopra’s classic 1957 Bollywood film, the social comedy Naya Daur (New Age). To be... More >>

• Evita

  published May 21, 2009

  Here’s the perfect plotline for a Broadway musical: Slut becomes a saint. We’re talking about Eva Perón, former first lady of... More >>

• Grey Gardens

  published May 14, 2009

  While mother and daughter “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Beale are, respectively, aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Brief Encounter, Orphans, Rock 'N' Roll

  published May 7, 2009

  Brief Encounter Remember when an affair with a married man resulted in utter heartache and devastating guilt for all parties?... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Rigoletto, The Seven Year Itch

  published April 30, 2009

  Rigoletto Sly maestro that he was, composer Giuseppe Verdi wrote the role of the libertine, sex-obsessed Duke of Mantua as a... More >>

• Livin’ Fat

  published April 30, 2009

  What would you do if $50,000 dropped into your lap? You’d probably be pretty torn. That’s just how the Cooper family feels in... More >>

• Latin Wave: New Films from Latin America: The Maid

  published April 30, 2009

  Latin American cinema is in another golden age. First there was Luis Buñuel and his feature work in Mexico during the ‘40s and... More >>

• Soul Nite

  published April 30, 2009

  Worship at the church of the funky groove during today’s Soul Nite, a screening of vintage concert footage. In the 1960s,... More >>