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: The Seven Year Itch, "The Share of the Future", Rigoletto, Working

  published April 23, 2009

  The Seven Year Itch Hurry to Theatre Southwest if you want to see a star being born. Come to think of it, there may be more than... More >>

• Mauritius at the Alley

  published April 23, 2009

  It's been quite a while since a play has actually silenced the audience, leaving it clutching its candy wrappers instead of unwrapping them.... More >>

• Catastrophic Theatre’s Clown Town.

  published April 23, 2009

  Have an itch to put on a big red rubber nose? Floppy feet? Or maybe you have an unquenchable desire to cram yourself, along with a score of... More >>

• Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

  published April 23, 2009

  The gridiron is a social microcosm in Kevin Rafferty’s (The Atomic Cafe) ultimate sports documentary, Harvard Beats Yale... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Little Women, The Seven Year Itch, Wizard of Oz, Working

  published April 16, 2009

  Little Women If only the stagehands at Country Playhouse would cease moving scenery after every scene, we could really appreciate... More >>

• Media Archeology Festival: Liquid Light to the Laptop, the Evolution of Live Visuals

  published April 16, 2009

  The Aurora Picture Show pays weekend homage to those hazy nights of long ago with an audiovisual tribute to light shows during the Media... More >>

• 42nd WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival

  published April 16, 2009

  At the 42nd WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival, you won’t just watch films, you can learn how to make them, too.... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Constant Star, Hunter Gatherers, Little Women

  published April 9, 2009

  Constant Star Five actresses portray the complex post-Reconstruction pioneer Ida B. Wells in Tazewell Thompson's glorious "play... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Constant Star, Doubt, Les Misérables, Steel Magnolias

  published April 2, 2009

  Constant Star Five actresses portray the complex post-Reconstruction pioneer Ida B. Wells in Tazewell Thompson's glorious "play... More >>

• Opera in the Heights puts on a stunning Falstaff

  published April 2, 2009

  It's an extremely cold day in hell when a masterpiece can be appreciated equally by opera queens and novices with tin ears, but Opera in the... More >>

• Julius Caesar

  published April 2, 2009

  There's noise of a different sort arising from Town Center Theatre. I wouldn't call it singing, as much as the sound of Shakespeare spinning in... More >>

• The Wizard of Oz

  published April 2, 2009

  If you think The Wizard of Oz is a little kid’s story, think again. Sure, there’s the pastel countryside and a sweet... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Doubt, Five Flights, The Objectification of Things

  published March 26, 2009

  Compleat Female Stage Beauty In 1660, when the English monarchy was restored after the conservative rule of the Puritan... More >>

• The Fortune Cookie

  published March 26, 2009

  At the center of The Fortune Cookie is Whiplash Willie, a.k.a. William H. Gingrich, the mother of all shyster lawyers. As... More >>

• The Triplets of Belleville

  published March 26, 2009

  The innovative cartoon fable The Triplets of Belleville is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Maybe if you mixed Jacques... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Doubt, Five Flights, Masters of Movement, Nursery School Musical, The Pie Dialogues

  published March 19, 2009

  Doubt Given its pretentious subtitle, "A Parable," as if this warrants deep, after-theater discussion, John Patrick Shanley's... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: John, His Story, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Nursery School Musical, The Pie Dialogues

  published March 12, 2009

  John, His Story If you're looking for a bit of Sunday school mixed with sturdy theatricality, then you'll enjoy A.D. Players'... More >>

• Artania

  published March 12, 2009

  In a galaxy far, far away, there is a magic ring…no, wait a minute, wrong story — in a galaxy just down the road called Sam Houston... More >>

• He's The Man Who Came to Dinner

  published March 5, 2009

  "Fabulous monster." "Spoiled baby." "Improbable...insufferable." "Fat duchess." "A scorpion." "God's big brother." And that's just what his... More >>

• KUHF Silent Film Concert: Destiny

  published March 5, 2009

  Firmly set in cinema’s pantheon for his masterpieces Die Nibelungen, Metropolis and M, iconographic... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Amadeus, bobrauschenbergamerica, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Eurydice, John, His Story

  published February 26, 2009

  Amadeus The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has fascinated the world since the child prodigy turned musical genius died in 1791,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Legally Blonde the Musical, The Man Who Saved New Orleans, The Odd Couple, Puttin' on the Ritz

  published February 19, 2009

  Legally Blonde the Musical Elle Woods, the bubbly blond who discovers that a girl can be both fashionable and smart, rides again.... More >>

• Buffalo Soldier Mutiny: Houston, 1917

  published February 19, 2009

  Riots, racism, police beatings, mob vengeance, political corruption, murder! No, we’re not talking about Watts in the 1960s, but the most... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Arms and the Man, The Man Who Saved New Orleans, The Odd Couple, Taking Flight

  published February 12, 2009

  Arms and the Man G.B. Shaw's sparkling romantic comedy from 1894 takes on manly soldiers who are praised for desertion, a middle... More >>

• Bourne-Kylián-Walsh: A Masterful Mixed Repertoire

  published February 12, 2009

  Since this weekend includes Saint Valentine’s Day, how would you like to fall in love with a swan? Not a sweet cygnet, mind you, all... More >>