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

• Bitten by Bug

  published June 10, 2010

  Tracy Letts's manic Bug, now scurrying underfoot and burying itself under audiences' skin at Theatre Southwest, is the company's... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Designated Mourner, Intelligence-Slave, Young Frankenstein,

  published June 3, 2010

  The Designated Mourner The apocalyptic world of Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner is a place without poetry, art or... More >>

• Contemporary African Cinema

  published June 3, 2010

  "Try to understand what it is," states the gloriously statuesque Gnapa Béatrice Kombé, describing her modern dance troupe... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Fear of Ducks, The Little Foxes, Romantic Comedy

  published May 27, 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: Arcadia, Funny Money, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  published May 20, 2010

  Arcadia The extraordinary depth of playwright Tom Stoppard's knowledge is on full display in the melancholic, gorgeously realized... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: A Flea in Her Ear, The Little Foxes, Man from Nebraska, Uncivil Unions

  published May 13, 2010

  A Flea in Her Ear Texas Repertory Theatre Co.'s sexy and silly production of Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear is loads of... More >>

• X Marks the Spot

  published May 13, 2010

  In the whacked-out world that is opera, it was an ex-pat German who gave the English the perfect Italian operas that they craved. During... More >>

• Main Street Theater: Arcadia

  published May 13, 2010

  For his time-shifting Arcadia (1993), award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard received the best reviews of his career. That's saying... More >>

• 4th Annual Houston Palestine Film Festival

  published May 13, 2010

  For all the deadly complexities swirling throughout the political tinderbox that is the Middle East, there's always room for more understanding.... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Little Foxes, Man from Nebraska, Reefer Madness

  published May 6, 2010

  The Little Foxes Not since Agamemnon and the house of Atreus has there been such an entertainingly decadent family as the house of... More >>

• Alice Neel

  published May 6, 2010

  Respected by and known only to the cognoscenti, painter Alice Neel was, perhaps, the most famous unknown painter of the 20th century. It was only... More >>

• Uncivil Unions

  published May 6, 2010

  Since 1998, Unhinged Productions has been the leading theater voice for all things LGBT. (If we have to explain the acronym, you're not ready for... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Man from Nebraska, Reefer Madness, Stick Fly

  published April 29, 2010

  Man from Nebraska Each Tracy Letts play is unique unto itself. If you know the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright from only... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Dangerous Liaisons, Queen of Spades, Seascape

  published April 22, 2010

  Dangerous Liaisons Christopher Hampton's wicked dissection of upper-crust pre-Revolutionary France brings passion without heat,... More >>

• Shakespeare in the Park

  published April 22, 2010

  To celebrate the birthday of the world's greatest playwright (the only sure date we know is his baptismal day, April 26, 1564), the University of... More >>

• Para Vivir

  published April 15, 2010

  Life explodes off the stage at Hobby Center. It travels through the house like an atomic blast; it blows back our hair and lifts us out of our... More >>

• A Muddled Mess

  published April 15, 2010

  You may need a drink after the world premiere of Lans Traverse's Driftwood, but not for fortification. Better for throwing. This... More >>

• Man from Nebraska

  published April 15, 2010

  In Stages Repertory Theatre's regional premiere of Man from Nebraska, Ken Carpenter wakes up one day and realizes he doesn't believe... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Barefoot in the Park, La Bohème, Speech and Debate

  published April 8, 2010

  Barefoot in the Park A revival of Neil Simon's 1963 whipped cream of a play, Barefoot in the Park certainly sounds delicious.... More >>

• Company

  published April 8, 2010

  Sandpaper is baby bottom-soft compared to Stephen Sondheim's classic, multiple-Tony Award-winning musical Company. Although you'd... More >>

• Stick Fly

  published April 8, 2010

  The much-discussed matriarch Mrs. LeVay never shows up in Lydia Diamond's barbed-wire Stick Fly. Mom's certainly the focus, and... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: La Bohème, Our Late Night, Speech and Debate

  published April 1, 2010

  La Bohème Giacomo Puccini's evergreen opera, perhaps the world's favorite musical work, receives a loving revival from Opera... More >>

• Cheaper to Keep Her

  published March 25, 2010

  Not to be confused with the embarrassing Ken Annakin sex comedy starring Mac Davis, nor the country music song by Canadian Aaron Lines, the... More >>

• Silly Alley

  published March 18, 2010

  Never underestimate the august Alley Theatre. Houston's preeminent theater company is usually known for its classy renditions of classic dramas;... More >>

• Enchanted Evening, Indeed

  published March 18, 2010

  One of the milestones in all musical theater, this Rodgers and Hammerstein (and Joshua Logan, too) classic from 1949 is so amazingly fresh and... More >>