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: KOOZA, Mr. Marmalade, Steel Magnolias, Tamarie Cooper's DOOMSDAY REVUE (the greatest musical ever), The Wrong Side of the Law

  published August 16, 2012

  KOOZA In KOOZA's loose narrative, a shy, foppish character known as The Innocent discovers a world of magic, acrobatics and... More >>

• Celebrating the Bard

  published August 9, 2012

  HAMLET For the Houston Shakespeare Festival, director Steve Pickering sets the world's most famous play in Edwardian... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: First Lady Suite, KOOZA, The Lion King, Top Shelf Shorts, Travelsty

  published August 2, 2012

  First Lady Suite After its mesmerizing former production of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, the young Bit of a Stretch Theatre Company... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Beehive, Black Coffee, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Lion King, Tamarie Cooper's DOOMSDAY REVUE (the greatest musical ever), Travelsty

  published July 19, 2012

  Beehive From bubble gum to Southern Comfort, the women of '60s pop had a radical musical transformation. Whether their music exactly... More >>

• The Zoo Story

  published July 12, 2012

  Jim Tommaney's Edge Theatre has given us the alpha and omega of Edward Albee (Tommaney also covers theater for the Houston Press). In... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Beehive, Large Animal Games, Alice in Wonderland: the Musical Queen, Black Coffee

  published July 12, 2012

  Beehive From bubble gum to Southern Comfort, the women of '60s pop had a radical musical transformation. Whether their music exactly... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Little Shop of Horrors, The Psychic, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, Travelsty

  published June 28, 2012

  The Dark at the Top of the Stairs This portrait of a small-town family dealing with the changing world of the 1920s features playwright... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Kiss of the Spider Woman, New Arrivals, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, The Psychic

  published June 21, 2012

  Kiss of the Spider Woman This is not the Kander & Ebb musical version of Manuel Puig's best-selling novel. There are no shirtless chorus boys... More >>

• Noises Off!

  published June 14, 2012

  If Michael Frayn's peerless farce Noises Off! isn't the funniest play ever written, I don't know what is. And if this isn't one of... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Extremities, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Romeo and Juliet

  published June 14, 2012

  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas A revival of the 1978 rollicking Broadway musical about the famed Texas "Chicken Ranch" rides... More >>

• An American in Paris

  published June 14, 2012

  Gene Kelly completely dominates An American in Paris, the story of a Yank painter living in the City of Light. With assistance from... More >>

• Classic Bogart Movies at Miller: Casablanca

  published June 14, 2012

  When Warner Brothers green-lighted the low-budget 1942 romance melodrama Casablanca, studio head Jack Warner thought producer Hal... More >>

• Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis)

  published June 14, 2012

  Director Marcel Carné and scriptwriter Jacques Prévert, whose previous collaborations were the classics Port of Shadows and... More >>

• Frankenstein: The New Musical

  published June 14, 2012

  Not to be confused with Mel Brooks’s irreverent tuner, also from 2007, Frankenstein, A New Musical — also about... More >>

• Tartuffe

  published June 14, 2012

  The more things change, the more they stay the same — that's the perfect description of Molière's 1664 classic black comedy... More >>

• Movies Houstonians Love: Moneyball

  published June 14, 2012

  Astros rookie General Manager Jeff Luhnow gets his turn at bat in the continuing film series Movies Houstonians Love at the Museum of Fine Arts,... More >>

• Barrymore

  published June 14, 2012

  John Barrymore was perhaps the most famous of all American actors before WWII and was certainly among the best Shakespearean actors ever. He had... More >>

• Love Goes to Press

  published June 14, 2012

  Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles were two of the best war correspondents of their era. Between them, they covered every major world conflict... More >>

• Das Boot

  published June 14, 2012

  There's no war film more claustrophobically terrifying than Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (1981). Seen from the German side, these... More >>

• Brazil

  published June 14, 2012

  One thing's certain after watching Terry Gilliam's phantasmagoric Brazil(1985): You will forever after reconsider cosmetic surgery.... More >>

• People

  published June 14, 2012

  You won't confuse the crumbling heap that takes center stage in Alan Bennett's prickly new comedy People with the high polish of... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Extremities, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Next to Normal, Rum and Vodka

  published June 7, 2012

  Extremities Theatre Southwest's production has put the tingle into William Mastrosimone's creepy little Off-Broadway hit. Psychotic... More >>

• UCLA Festival of Preservation: The Crusades

  published June 7, 2012

  Hold onto your chain mail; you’re in for a glorious medieval romp with master filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille’s The Crusades... More >>

• Anna Bolena

  published June 7, 2012

  In its continuing effort to bring the world’s greatest opera performances to the movie screens of the hinterlands, New York’s... More >>

• Citizen Kane

  published June 7, 2012

  “It’s terrific!” blazed the 1941 RKO posters for Orson Welles’s first movie, Citizen Kane (1941).... More >>