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: Chess, Driving Miss Daisy, Sleuth, The Waiting Room

  published October 7, 2010

  Chess ABBA fans might be happy to know that an evening of tunes by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus is happening at the Hobby Center,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Driving Miss Daisy, Romeo and Julian, Among the Thugs, Auntie Mame

  published September 30, 2010

  Driving Miss Daisy There are only three characters in Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play from 1988: Southern Jewish widow Miss... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Auntie Mame, The Doctor's Dilemma, Laura, The Philadelphia Story

  published September 23, 2010

  Auntie Mame Sad to say, the champagne's gone flat at Stages Repertory Theatre. The irrepressible Mame (Sally Edmundson) still raises... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Body, Soul & Gershwin, The Great Storm, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Laura

  published September 16, 2010

  Body, Soul & Gershwin As the title implies, Houston Ballet's season opener was indeed a collection of dances about movement,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews; The Marvelous Wonderettes

  published September 9, 2010

  The Marvelous Wonderettes Okay, kids, let's write a second-rate musical that has no chance of ever seeing the lights of Broadway.... More >>

• A Behanding in Spokane

  published September 9, 2010

  The lights come up on a ratty hotel room with yellowed transom, smudgy walls and broken Venetian blinds. In Kevin Rigdon's atmospheric set design,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Marvelous Wonderettes

  published September 2, 2010

  The Marvelous Wonderettes Okay, kids, let's write a second-rate musical that has no chance of ever seeing the lights of Broadway. Judging... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: August in August, Fear of Ducks, Leaving Iowa

  published August 26, 2010

  August in August In Obsidian Art Space, Houston's coolest new venue, The Fan Factory Theatre has returned after a hiatus to present... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Art, Fear of Ducks, Leaving Iowa

  published August 19, 2010

  Art Despite its title, Yasmina Reza's hugely successful Art, which opened in Paris in 1995, isn't really about the expensive... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Art, >Fear of Ducks, Leaving Iowa

  published August 12, 2010

  Art Despite its title, Yasmina Reza's hugely successful Art, which opened in Paris in 1995, isn't really about the expensive... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Fear of Ducks, Leaving Iowa, The Marvelous Wonderettes, St. Nicholas

  published August 5, 2010

  Fear of Ducks Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the theater, along comes the inspired lunacy of Radio Music Theatre.... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Fear of Ducks, Jewtopia, Leaving Iowa, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Rent

  published July 29, 2010

  Fear of Ducks Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the theater, along comes the inspired lunacy of Radio Music Theatre.... More >>

• Breathless/Two in the Wave

  published July 29, 2010

  Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film, Breathless, with a screenplay by his friend Francois Truffaut (who had his movie premiere just... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Laramie Project, Jewtopia, The Marvelous Wonderettes

  published July 22, 2010

  The Laramie Project The chilling discovery of Matthew Shepard, still and tied to a fence, ends Act I of Moisés Kaufman's... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Five Guys Named Moe, The Hollow, Hunter Gatherers, The Mousetrap

  published July 15, 2010

  Five Guys Named Moe The joint's jumpin' at Ensemble Theatre with this jukebox tribute to Louis Jordan, the musician acclaimed by... More >>

• The Story of Matthew

  published July 15, 2010

  It was a rock in the sandy road that caused Wyoming student Aaron Kreifels, out for a late-afternoon bike ride, to somersault over his handlebars... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Fear of Ducks, Panic

  published July 1, 2010

  Fear of Ducks Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the theater, along comes the inspired lunacy of Radio Music Theatre.... More >>

• Red Riding Trilogy

  published July 1, 2010

  The wild beauty of Yorkshire, England, is the setting for Red Riding Trilogy, a remarkable British TV adaptation of David Peace's... More >>

• Breath Made Visible

  published July 1, 2010

  "I dance for the fun of it," states the irrepressible American avant-gardist Anna Halprin, still dancing at 90 years old. You'll understand her... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Life in the Theatre/Tuesdays with Morrie, Always...Patsy Cline, Boeing-Boeing, The Complete History of America (Abridged), Cuckoos

  published June 24, 2010

  25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Celebrating the nerd in all her native glory, Rachel Sheinkin and William Finn's 25th... More >>

• Hunter Gatherers

  published June 24, 2010

  Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Hunter Gatherers is a black-as-tar comedy that pits civilized behavior against the animal within. Two... More >>

• The Laramie Project

  published June 24, 2010

  Young college student Matthew Shepard, who happened to be gay, doesn't appear in The Laramie Project, but he infuses every scene... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Boeing-Boeing, Cuckoos, La Fille mal gardée

  published June 17, 2010

  Boeing-Boeing Alley Theatre veteran actor Jeffrey Bean is a national treasure, or should be, after a miraculous effort of... More >>

• Five Guys Named Moe

  published June 17, 2010

  The '40s bandleader and jivey saxophonist Louis Jordan has been called the "father of rhythm & blues" and the "grandfather of rock 'n' roll."... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Complete History of America (Abridged), The Girl, The Grouch, and The Goat, Panic

  published June 10, 2010

  The Complete History of America (Abridged) If you like the idea of a balloon-headed Abraham Lincoln being popped dead in a lame... More >>