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

• Comedy of Manners

  published July 14, 2011

  In Emma, A.D. Players' stylishly elegant production of Jane Austen's sublime comedy of manners, actress Sarah Cooksey portrays... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Opening the Box

  published July 7, 2011

  The Great American Trailer Park Musical There's nothing wrong with fried food, except when it stains your pants and you can't get... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: To Kill a Mockingbird, Opening the Box, Wonderland! The Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice

  published June 30, 2011

  To Kill a Mockingbird Remarkable stagecraft, consummate acting and skilled direction create a memorable production of To Kill a... More >>

• Summer Blues

  published June 30, 2011

  Want a show that's cool enough for these humid nights of summer? Want a show that's also hot enough to steam up the windows? Three talented ladies... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Opening the Box, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Murder at the Howard Johnson's, Wonderland! The Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice

  published June 23, 2011

  Opening the Box Five veteran performers from Masquerade Theatre, Houston's repository of Broadway musicals, have left that company... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Big Range Dance Festival, Death of a Salesman, It's Only Life, The Taming of the Shrew,

  published June 16, 2011

  Big Range Dance Festival In its second of three weekends, the Big Range Dance Festival delivers just that — a big range of... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Asylum, The Money in Uncle George's Suitcase, Opening the Box, The Great American Trailer Park Musical

  published June 9, 2011

  Asylum Sweet, nerdy Gary (Chris Patton), who seems permanently stuck somewhere near adolescence, finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into... More >>

• Two Spirits

  published June 9, 2011

  In July 2001, Fred Martinez, a Native American high school freshman in Cortez, Colorado, was bludgeoned to death by 18-year-old Shaun Murphy, a... More >>

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with the Invincible Czarz

  published June 9, 2011

  In 1920, actor John Barrymore was perhaps the most famous man on earth. Handsome and charismatic, he was known for his great profile. (He looks... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Opening the Box, Raising the Barre, The Threesome

  published June 2, 2011

  Opening the Box Five veteran performers from Masquerade Theatre, Houston's repository of Broadway musicals, have left that company... More >>

• Transformers

  published June 2, 2011

  George Bernard Shaw's most convivial play — he subtitled it a "Romance in Five Acts" — Pygmalion takes on class... More >>

• Crave

  published June 2, 2011

  By the time English playwright Sarah Kane’s last play was produced (4:48 Psychosis), she had hanged herself in a mental institution.... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Crave, Debt Collectors, Essential Self Defense, Jekyll and Hyde

  published May 26, 2011

  Crave Crave is by Sarah Kane, the acclaimed British playwright who committed suicide at the age of 28, and the Catastrophic... More >>

• 13 Assassins

  published May 26, 2011

  Hey, what’s a movie without sex and violence? Not much if you’re hot Japanese director Takashi Miike. Miike makes movies at a phenomenal... More >>

• Jekyll and Hyde

  published May 26, 2011

  For a musical that never got any respect — the New York Times review from the 1997 premiere is downright withering, as were most of the other... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Debt Collectors, I Am Barbie, Four Places, [title of show]

  published May 19, 2011

  Debt Collectors It's a wonder the influential Swedish playwright (also painter, novelist, photographer and essayist) August... More >>

• On The Bowery

  published May 19, 2011

  The faces are eerily familiar. Grizzled and glowing like Rembrandt’s old men, infused with monumental fervor like Eisenstein’s... More >>

• Harmony and Me

  published May 19, 2011

  Months after his girlfriend dumped him, mopey Harmony (Bishop Allen musician Justin Rice) still wears her picture inside a locket around his neck.... More >>

• Trust

  published May 12, 2011

  David Schwimmer, better known as Ross from the television series Friends, wants to be a movie director. He has more than enough riches from... More >>

• Opening the Box

  published May 12, 2011

  Take five former members of Masquerade Theatre (Houston’s pre-eminent Broadway musical revival company), put them in the space formerly... More >>

• Essential Self-Defense

  published May 12, 2011

  Playwright Adam Rapp (Pulitzer Prize-finalist for Red Light Winter) can be an uncertain, quirky writer, somewhere between Sam Shepard with... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Come Back, Little Sheba, Four Places, A Murder Is Announced, Our New Age of Information

  published May 5, 2011

  Come Back, Little Sheba Never has a bottle of whiskey perked up a play so much. Until Doc (Mack Hays) careens into the kitchen,... More >>

• Sublime Strauss

  published May 5, 2011

  The physical production of Houston Grand Opera's Ariadne auf Naxos is ravishing. But just wait until you hear the sublime music and... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Marriage of Figaro, King Lear, Come Back, Little Sheba,  Under the Big Dark Sky

  published April 28, 2011

  The Marriage of Figaro Mozart's sublime opera is all about love. All kinds, from raunchy seduction to moonlight serenade. Based on... More >>

• Four Places

  published April 28, 2011

  In Joel Drake Johnson’s play Four Places, siblings Warren and Ellen take their mom Peggy to her favorite restaurant without... More >>