Email Author D.L. Groover

Awards

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

  "Imperfect Score"

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2011 Stories by D.L. Groover

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Cinderella, Fruitcakes, The Santaland Diaries

  published December 29, 2011

  The Best Christmas Pageant Ever A substitute pageant director has (gasp!) to cast six unruly children to tell the story of The... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, A Christmas Story — A Ghost Story of Christmas, Fruitcakes, The Nutcracker, The Santaland Diaries

  published December 22, 2011

  The Best Christmas Pageant Ever A substitute pageant director has (gasp!) to cast six unruly children to tell the story of The... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna Bella Eema, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Fruitcakes, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, The Nutcracker

  published December 15, 2011

  Anna Bella Eema The world of the surreal and the real is fashioned into bold theatrical relief by playwright Lisa D'Amour, composer... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna Bella Eema, A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage @ 1959, The Grand Manner, Museum of Dysfunction IV, The Nutcracker

  published December 8, 2011

  Anna Bella Eema The world of the surreal and the real is fashioned into bold theatrical relief by playwright Lisa D'Amour, composer... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Cinderella, A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage @ 1959, Dear Santa, My Fair Lady, Oliver Twist

  published November 24, 2011

  Cinderella The Ensemble Theatre's take on Cinderella gives the fairy tale a lively, rollicking treatment. There are moments... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Cosi fan tutte, Dear Santa, Speed-the-Plow, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, When the Day Met the Night (a moosehunt experience)

  published November 17, 2011

  Così fan tutte Among all of Mozart's splendid operas, perhaps Così is most special, because it has taken the... More >>

• Holidays with the Folks

  published November 17, 2011

  Where would theater be without family? This great fount of inspiration, conflict and character building (or warping) flows from drama's very... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Damaged Divas of the Decades, Oliver Twist, Once on this Island, Skin Deep, Speed-the-Plow, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is

  published November 10, 2011

  Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Damaged Divas of the Decades, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oliver Twist, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Zombie Prom

  published November 3, 2011

  Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This... More >>

• Ode to Joy

  published November 3, 2011

  Beethoven's only opera (1805, revised 1814), Fidelio, is a mighty ode to joy, political freedom and conjugal bliss. In coarse hands,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Evil Dead: the Musical, Oliver Twist, The Retreat from Moscow, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Wait Until Dark

  published October 27, 2011

  Evil Dead: the Musical Sam Raimi's 1981 cult film The Evil Dead has been reincarnated as a stage musical, with all its gore and... More >>

• Great Estate

  published October 20, 2011

  You know immediately, even before Horton Foote's gently warm 1989 comedy Dividing the Estate begins, what the characters want... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Death, the Musical Romeo and Juliet, String of Pearls, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom

  published October 20, 2011

  The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead This theater curiosity is a hybrid — part point-of-view drama, part acting... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Death, the Musical, Romeo and Juliet, A Texas Romance, Wait Until Dark

  published October 13, 2011

  The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead This theater curiosity is a hybrid — part point-of-view drama, part acting... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Damaged Divas of the Decades, Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, Galveston! the Musical!, Guys and Dolls

  published October 6, 2011

  Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This second... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna in the Tropics, Ether Dome, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Republic Day, A Texas Romance, Woof

  published September 29, 2011

  Anna in the Tropics While the cigar rollers toil in a small factory in '20s Tampa, Florida, a new "lector" reads to them to pass the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna in the Tropics, Damaged Divas of the Decades, Ether Dome, Farragut North, Republic Day, Woof

  published September 22, 2011

  Anna in the Tropics While the cigar rollers toil in a small factory in '20s Tampa, Florida, a new "lector" reads to them to pass the... More >>

• Brutal Blood

  published September 22, 2011

  Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who wrote Topdog/Underdog, Venus and Fucking A, has never been known as a... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Damaged Divas of the Decades, Farragut North, Goodbye Charlie, Kissless the Musical, Once Upon a Mattress, A Triumph of Love

  published September 15, 2011

  Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviws: Damaged Divas of the Decades, Once Upon a Mattress, Sylvia

  published September 8, 2011

  Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This... More >>

• Diva-licious

  published September 1, 2011

  "What good is sitting alone in your room. Come hear the music play. Life is a cabaret, old chum, come to the cabaret." That was... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Don Juan in Hell, Oklahoma!, Who Was That Masked Man?

  published August 4, 2011

  Don Juan in Hell Inside literary lion G.B. Shaw's philosophical comedy Man and Superman (1903) stands a dream scene like no other.... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: Hairspray, Spring Awakening, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Don Juan in Hell

  published July 28, 2011

  Hairspray Pick a color, any color, and before too long it'll appear somewhere onstage, in costume or set design, during Country... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Hairspray, The Mikado, Spring Awakening

  published July 21, 2011

  Hairspray Pick a color, any color, and before too long it'll appear somewhere onstage, in costume or set design, during Country... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: And Then There Were None, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, The Miss Firecracker Contest, Smokey Joe's Cafe

  published July 14, 2011

  And Then There Were None A remote island. One lonely house. Ten guests who've never met their host. And a creepy nursery rhyme... More >>