Email Author D.L. Groover

Awards

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

  "Imperfect Score"

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2010 Stories by D.L. Groover

• Capsule Stage Reviews: A Fertle Holiday, Panto Pinocchio, Santaland Diaries

  published December 30, 2010

  A Fertle Holiday In the mood for a big wedge of Mildred's butter pie? A Fertle Holiday is Radio Music Theatre's penultimate show before its... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Burn the Floor, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, A Fertle Holiday, The Nutcracker, Plaid Tidings, Santaland Diaries

  published December 23, 2010

  Burn the Floor Their chests glisten, their hair whips around and sticks to sweaty foreheads, their legs scissor across the stage in... More >>

• Howl

  published December 23, 2010

  “Who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy,” celebrates counterculture guru Allen Ginsberg... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Bluefinger: The Fall and Rise of Herman Brood, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, A Fertle Holiday, The Nutcracker, Reckless, Santaland Diaries

  published December 16, 2010

  Bluefinger: The Fall and Rise of Herman Brood Catastrophic Theatre's magnificent world-premiere production, written and directed by... More >>

• Micmacs

  published December 16, 2010

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2009 homage to fantastic cinema, Micmacs recalls the imaginative, comedic work of Buster Keaton and Terry... More >>

• Dogtooth

  published December 16, 2010

  What would happen to a family that never saw the outside world? Young Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos answers the question with one of the... More >>

• Boxing Gym

  published December 16, 2010

  Considered the dean of American documentary filmmakers, Frederick Wiseman once said, "There is a lot of drama in ordinary experiences." It was... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Bluefinger: The Fall and Rise of Herman Brood, The Heidi Chronicles, The Nutcracker

  published December 9, 2010

  Bluefinger: The Fall and Rise of Herman Brood Catastrophic Theatre's magnificent world-premiere production, written and directed by... More >>

• Christmas Cookies on Stage

  published December 9, 2010

  Christmas treats this season come in all shapes and sizes, some full of wonder when unwrapped and some sooty around the edges. To be fair, like... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Bluefinger: The Fall and Rise of Herman Brood, The Little Dog Laughed, The Nutcracker

  published December 2, 2010

  Bluefinger: The Fall and Rise of Herman Brood Catastrophic Theatre's magnificent world-premiere production, written and directed by... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Drowsy Chaperone, The Little Dog Laughed, Three Bags Full

  published November 25, 2010

  The Drowsy Chaperone I don't think there's been another musical comedy in the last decade that's as inventive, melodious and witty as this... More >>

• Bluefinger on Broadway?

  published November 25, 2010

  Catastrophic Theatre's magnificent world-premiere production of Bluefinger: The Fall and Rise of Herman Brood, written and directed... More >>

• The Normal Heart

  published November 25, 2010

  "I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates," writes Larry Kramer in The Normal... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 9 to 5, The Good Body, The Little Dog Laughed, To Cross the Face of the Moon

  published November 18, 2010

  9 to 5 Dolly Parton's musical adaptation of Patricia Resnick's hit movie (1980) received such a drubbing from the New York press... More >>

• Voyage of the Damned

  published November 18, 2010

  On May 13, 1939, the captain of the S/S St. Louis wrote in his ship's log, "Everyone seems convinced they will never see Germany... More >>

• The Drowsy Chaperone

  published November 18, 2010

  What started as a stag party gag - in Canada, of all places! - morphed into the most charming and effervescent musical in decades, The... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Die Fledermaus, Vanities

  published November 11, 2010

  Die Fledermaus (The Bat) Chocolate and champagne make a delicious combo, and Johann Strauss Jr.'s operetta is a musical bonbon with... More >>

• All About Eve

  published November 11, 2010

  Eve Ensler is many things: successful playwright (The Vagina Monologues), radical feminist, actress, outspoken crusader to stop violence... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Madame Butterfly, Peter Grimes, Richard III, Vanities

  published November 4, 2010

  Madame Butterfly Is there any opera entrance more musically ravishing than the bridal procession of Butterfly? A 15-year-old geisha,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Madame Butterfly, Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, Shrek the Musical

  published October 28, 2010

  Madame Butterfly Is there any opera entrance more musically ravishing than the bridal procession of Butterfly? A 15-year-old geisha,... More >>

• Dracula

  published October 28, 2010

  The world's most cosmopolitan blood sucker strikes on Halloween - when else? - as the mother of all Hollywood horror movies,... More >>

• Kings of Pastry

  published October 28, 2010

  If you think making a soufflé for dinner guests is just too nerve-racking, wait until you see the documentary Kings of Pastry... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Marriage of Bette & Boo, Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, Shadows in Bloom

  published October 21, 2010

  The Marriage of Bette & Boo Christopher Durang might be famous for his wildly sardonic satires, including Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Hairspray, Ghost, Sleuth,

  published October 14, 2010

  Hairspray In set, music and performance, this show is, perhaps, the most exuberantly exciting musical Theatre Under the Stars has produced... More >>

• Spirited Peter

  published October 14, 2010

  The Alley Theatre is putting on a thrillingly buoyant production of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. (Somewhere... More >>