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

• Polisse

  published June 7, 2012

  French director/actor Maïwenn’s latest directorial effort, Polisse (how a French child might spell “police”),... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Foreigner, King Hedley II, Made in America, Next to Normal

  published May 31, 2012

  The Foreigner Larry Shue's sweet backwoods comedy (1983), a staple of regional theaters, receives an equally sweet rendition at... More >>

• Long Live King Hedley

  published May 24, 2012

  Of all contemporary American playwrights, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner August Wilson, who died in 2005, is perhaps the most old-fashioned.... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Next to Normal, Travelsty, Twelve Angry Men, What We're Up Against

  published May 24, 2012

  Next to Normal The regional premiere of the rock musical Next to Normal has opened at Stages Repertory Theatre, giving us a... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Beams Are Creaking, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Foreigner, Magdalene, One Kiss: The Music of Sigmund Romberg, Travelsty

  published May 17, 2012

  The Beams Are Creaking The life of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who opposed Hitler and paid for his resistance with his... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Beams Are Creaking, First Baptist of Ivy Gap, The Foreigner, Magdalene, The Unexpected Man

  published May 10, 2012

  The Beams Are Creaking The life of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who opposed Hitler and paid for his resistance with his... More >>

• Main Street Theater's Richard III is punk-goth magnificence

  published May 3, 2012

  Shakespeare's magnificently malignant spider, the Duke of Gloucester, soon-to-be Richard III, as embodied by the equally magnificent Guy Roberts,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Don't Drink the Water, First Baptist of Ivy Gap, Mary Stuart, The Seafarer, The Unexpected Man

  published May 3, 2012

  Don't Drink the Water Woody Allen, already famous for his stand-up routines and comedy writing for TV giant Sid Caesar, went solo... More >>

• Art

  published May 3, 2012

  The bright and witty Art garnered just about every theater award there is to…uh, garn when it opened on Broadway in 1998.... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Don't Drink the Water, Mary Stuart, The Seafarer

  published April 26, 2012

  The Cripple of Inishmaan The University of Houston School of Theatre brings a bit of Ireland to Houston, re-creating the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Menopause The Musical, Oscar in the Box, See Rock City & Other Destinations, The Tempest

  published April 19, 2012

  Menopause The Musical Menopause The Musical turns angst into rollicking good humor as four disparate female strangers meet... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Cuttin' Up, Ragtime: the Musical, See Rock City & Other Destinations

  published April 12, 2012

  Cuttin' Up The chrome on the three barber chairs gleams brightly in Janelle Flanagan's "kitchen sink" set for Charles... More >>

• Asian Film Festival

  published April 12, 2012

  American Pastime, the opener for this weekend’s Asian Film Festival, takes place during the sepia-toned days of pre-WWII Los... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Below the Belt, Cactus Flower, Crimes of the Heart, Cuttin' Up, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)

  published April 5, 2012

  Below the Belt Existential comedy gets an effective workout at the intimate Black Box theater inside Country Playhouse. That the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Annie, Below the Belt, Cactus Flower, Our House

  published March 29, 2012

  Annie When it comes to the blockbuster Tony-winning Annie (1977) presented by Theatre Under the Stars with an optimistic... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Il Trovatore, Crimes of the Heart, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)

  published March 22, 2012

  Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi's monumental and monumentally exciting opera (1853) roars into Opera in the Heights and flattens everything... More >>

• Seeing Red

  published March 15, 2012

  "What does it need?" ponders abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko (Scott Wentworth) in Red as he stares deeply into the unseen... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 13 Miles from Security, Oscar in the Box, Play On!, Shout! The Mod Musical, Whatever Happened to the Villa Real?

  published March 15, 2012

  13 Miles from Security Local playwright Kathy Drum creates vivid characters in a Texarkana setting as the battle of the sexes rages... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Dinner with Friends, Proposals, Seussical the Musical, Whatever Happened to the Villa Real?

  published March 8, 2012

  Dinner with Friends Donald Margulies's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, seen here in Stark Naked Theatre's finely tuned hands, begins... More >>

• Seeing Double

  published March 1, 2012

  Sailing to more immediate shores, but on a journey no less fascinating, Me, Myself & I, the newest work from Edward Albee, the dean... More >>

• Golden Salvage

  published March 1, 2012

  By the final scene of the third installment of Tom Stoppard's magnificently rich triptych of 19th-century Russian revolutionaries, Coast of... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Dinner with Friends, Late Nite Catechism, Oscar in the Box, Whatever Happened to the Villa Real?

  published March 1, 2012

  Dinner with Friends Donald Margulies's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, seen here in Stark Naked Theatre's finely tuned hands, begins... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Endgame, The Seagull

  published February 23, 2012

  Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Don't take my word for it, listen to the slick con men sing in Masquerade Theatre's slick production of the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck, The Coitus Plays, The Seagull, Shadowlands

  published February 16, 2012

  Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck Let's see, where were we? The last time we met Tom Stoppard's displaced 19th-century Russian... More >>

• Great Britten

  published February 9, 2012

  After the storm and fury of Peter Grimes (1945), whose sea-tossed music and psychologically truthful and damaged characters were heralded... More >>