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: Easter Catechism, The Marriage of Figaro, A Murder Is Announced, The Trip to Bountiful

  published April 21, 2011

  Easter Catechism When a show is semi-scripted, with ample audience participation, a lot depends on the stage presence of the MC, and... More >>

• Mediocrity versus Genius

  published April 21, 2011

  In Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, his fanciful, dramatic, Tony- and Oscar-winning look at genius vs. ho-hum, the art of mediocrity gets... More >>

• Mesrine (Part 1 & 2)

  published April 21, 2011

  Everybody likes gangsters, those indelible, antisocial movie archetypes such as Capone, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, and Michael Corleone that... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Jitney, This, Breaking the Code

  published April 14, 2011

  Jitney The big dramatic confrontation in August Wilson's thrilling Jitney happens at the end of Act I, between father and son.... More >>

• The Marriage of Figaro

  published April 14, 2011

  In a bit of serendipity, Houston Grand Opera is presenting Mozart’s masterpiece The Marriage of Figaro, just around the corner from... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Curtains, Jitney, Masters of Semblance, Urinetown

  published April 7, 2011

  Curtains When musical veterans John Kander and Fred Ebb come up with such a clunker as Curtains, there's got to be a reason.... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: A Fertle Farewell, I Do! I Do!, The Miracle Worker, The Pearl Fishers

  published March 31, 2011

  A Fertle Farewell A Fertle Farewell chronicles the demise of the hamlet of Dumpster, Texas, population 12, a distant relative of... More >>

• Prison Reform Film Festival

  published March 31, 2011

  The Romanian shocker If I Want to Whistle, I’ll Whistle opens the Prison Reform Film Festival today. Director Florin... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Gone Missing, I Do! I Do!, An Inspector Calls, OVO, Shards of Love

  published March 24, 2011

  Gone Missing Experimental, yes, but still entertaining — talent will out. Gone Missing is based on actual interviews... More >>

• Dry Cocktail

  published March 24, 2011

  Contrary to the findings of the recent U.S. census, the WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) is merrily alive and doing quite well. In plays such... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Gone Missing, Or, OVO, Sleeping Beauty

  published March 17, 2011

  Gone Missing Experimental, yes, but still entertaining — talent will out. Gone Missing is based on actual interviews with real... More >>

• Movies Houstonians Love: Nothing But a Man

  published March 17, 2011

  Michael Roemer’s Nothing But a Man (1964) is a forceful treatment of the rural black experience after segregation, but the film... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Billy Elliot, A Fertle Farewell, An Inspector Calls, Shards of Love

  published March 10, 2011

  25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Precocious little Logainne SchwartzandGrubenniere (Monica Passley) — she has two dads,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Billy Elliot, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The War of the Worlds

  published March 3, 2011

  Billy Elliot For a show set in the rough-and-tumble mining fields of northern England, this inspirational musical, adapted from... More >>

• The Human Resources Manager

  published March 3, 2011

  Israeli director Eran Riklis’s The Human Resources Manager, which won Best Picture at this year’s Israel’s Ophir Awards and... More >>

• Eggshells

  published March 3, 2011

  Austin’s favorite filmmaker, Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist), made what he called his “hippie... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Luck of the Draw, Paradise Hotel, The War of the Worlds

  published February 24, 2011

  Luck of the Draw Earthen Vessels, the Sandra Organ Dance Company is currently showcasing Luck of the Draw, the 13th annual Black... More >>

• A Pointed Victory

  published February 24, 2011

  Into Masquerade Theatre's immense white set, the painter Georges Seurat purposefully strides. He throws out his arm like a sorcerer as a simple... More >>

• Bronze Age

  published February 24, 2011

  Russian sculptor Ernst Neizvestny publicly battled Nikita Khrushchev over so-called degenerate modern art and the right of the artist to depict... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Last 5 Years, Paradise Hotel, Stairway to Paradise: The Young George Gershwin

  published February 17, 2011

  The Last 5 Years Directed by Jimmy Phillips with pace and deftness, and presented by Mildred's Umbrella Theater, this is an ambitious... More >>

• Battleship Potemkin

  published February 17, 2011

  When Max Reinhardt, then the world’s most famous theater director, saw the German premiere of Sergei Eisenstein’s monumental 1925 film... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Bus Stop, Gee's Bend, Triple Focus, Weekend with Pablo Picasso

  published February 10, 2011

  Bus Stop In the 1950s, William Inge was lauded along with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller as one of the three great American... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviws: Candida, Don Carlo, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Year of Magical Thinking

  published February 3, 2011

  Candida There's no front curtain at Classical Theater's production of George Bernard Shaw's sparkling comedy, so when you enter... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: God of Carnage, Sonia and Suzy, Triple Focus

  published January 27, 2011

  God of Carnage By the time chic and sleek Annette announces she feels sick, after eating Veronica's much-vaunted apple and pear... More >>

• Not Dead

  published January 27, 2011

  If there are any of you out there who, after hearing the words "modern opera," scratch at imaginary scars or develop an annoying tic, I have a... More >>