Email Author D.L. Groover

Awards

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

  "Imperfect Score"

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2012 Stories by D.L. Groover

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Panto Mother Goose, Sanders Family Christmas, The Santaland Diaries, The White Christmas Album: A Beatles Holiday

  published December 27, 2012

  Panto Mother Goose The latest installment of Stages Repertory Theatre's annual Christmas "pantomimes" has a nimble score by David Nehls but... More >>

• Cathy Rigby Flying High

  published December 20, 2012

  From the magical moment when Cathy Rigby catapults through the Darling nursery room windows, trailing glittering pixie dust in her jet stream,... More >>

• Houston's Theater Scene a Very Stuffed Stocking

  published December 13, 2012

  Once you've had your fill of Sugar Plums, Messiahs and Scrooges, there's always room for more presents, so... Panto Mother... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: It's a Wonderful Life, Kimberly Akimbo, Sanders Family Christmas, Sylvia, Viv!

  published December 13, 2012

  It's a Wonderful Life Old-time radio drama gets a nostalgic analog tune-up under Texas Repertory Theatre's shrewd adaptation of Frank... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: It's a Wonderful Life, The Santaland Diaries, The Snow Queen, Sylvia

  published December 6, 2012

  It's a Wonderful Life Old-time radio drama gets a nostalgic analog tune-up under Texas Repertory Theatre's shrewd adaptation of Frank... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Beebo Brinker's Chronicles, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Home for the Dysfunctional Family Holidays!, Love Goes to Press, Sylvia

  published November 29, 2012

  Celebration Theatre specializes in gay theater, and presents its third production, a play set in Greenwich Village in the '50s, centering... More >>

• capsule Stage Reviews: Crazy for You, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Home for the Dysfunctional Family Holidays!, Sylvia

  published November 22, 2012

  Crazy for You This is a 1992 version of B'way's 1930 Girl Crazy, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, with a newly... More >>

• Young Lovers and a Hypocrite

  published November 15, 2012

  I Capuleti e i Montecchi You can hear the haste in Vincenzo Bellini's The Capulets and the Montagues (1830), whose... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Beebo Brinker's Chronicles, Fleaven, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Murdering Marlowe,

  published November 15, 2012

  Beebo Brinker's Chronicles Celebration Theatre specializes in gay theater, and presents its third production, a play set in Greenwich... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Assassins, Body Awareness, Fleaven, Murdering Marlowe, The Oldest Profession,

  published November 8, 2012

  Assassins Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's disturbing and deeply inky cult musical (1990), whose main characters happen to be either... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Body Awareness, The Italian Girl in Algiers, La Bohème, The Oldest Profession, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

  published November 1, 2012

  Body Awareness It's Body Awareness Week at Shirley State College, a small liberal arts school in Vermont, and our typical American... More >>

• Frankenstein and Evil Dead

  published October 25, 2012

  Halloween is upon us, and I can't think of any better place to celebrate the spooky weekend than at Country Playhouse with its scary double... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Death of a Salesman, La Bohème, Much Ado About Nothing, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder

  published October 25, 2012

  Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller's vaunted and much-lauded play remains full of fresh surprises, and the Alley's reverential production is... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Death of a Salesman, Jekyll & Hyde, Life Is a Dream, Missionary Position

  published October 18, 2012

  2 Pianos, 4 Hands Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra, both talented Canadian pianists and actors trained for careers as classical... More >>

• The Nacirema Society

  published October 11, 2012

  It's so rare when a new play makes an impression that when it does, you feel like you're walking on air. Pearl Cleage's romantic comedy,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Miss Julie, Getting Sara Married, The Glass Menagerie, Life Could Be a Dream, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure

  published October 11, 2012

  Miss Julie August Strindberg's ground-breaking psychological drama, originally set in Sweden in 1874, is transferred to New Orleans in the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Awesome America!, Miss Julie, Getting Sara Married, Life Could Be a Dream, Otello, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure

  published October 4, 2012

  Awesome America! In its inaugural production, the Ohana Theatre Company presents four short unrelated plays set in different American... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Getting Sara Married, Life Could Be a Dream, Life Is a Dream, Superior Donuts, Women@Art

  published September 27, 2012

  2 Pianos, 4 Hands Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra, both talented Canadian pianists and actors trained for careers as classical... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Getting Sara Married, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Happily Ever at the Box, Life Could Be a Dream, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Superior Donuts

  published September 20, 2012

  2 Pianos, 4 Hands Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra, both talented Canadian pianists and actors trained for careers as classical... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Happily Ever at the Box, Leading Ladies, Life Could Be a Dream, Next Fall, Superior Donuts

  published September 13, 2012

  2 Pianos, 4 Hands Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra, both talented Canadian pianists and actors trained for careers as classical... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Leading Ladies, Life Could Be a Dream, Next Fall, Our Town

  published September 6, 2012

  Leading Ladies In Leading Ladies, two down-on-their luck Shakespearean actors seek to impersonate the heirs to an estate, and... More >>

• Mamet’s November Lacks Bite

  published September 6, 2012

  Whatever happened to David Mamet? The testosterone-fueled playwright — responsible for Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Glengarry Glen... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Happily Ever at the Box, KOOZA, Leading Ladies, Next Fall, Our Town

  published August 30, 2012

  Happily Ever at the Box Fairy-tale archetypes get a scrumptious musical makeover from our favorite cabaret troupe, The Music Box Theater.... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Houston Theater Awards

  published August 23, 2012

  Check out our slideshow, The Year in Houston... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Happily Ever at the Box, Life Could Be a Dream, Mr. Marmalade, Our Town, Tamarie Cooper's DOOMSDAY REVUE (the greatest musical ever)

  published August 23, 2012

  Happily Ever at the Box Fairy-tale archetypes get a scrumptious musical makeover from our favorite cabaret troupe, The Music Box Theater.... More >>