Email Author Margaret Downing

Awards

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 23, 2010

  "Children of God"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 23, 2010

  "Children of God"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 30, 2010

  "The Whipping Boy"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published June 3, 2010

  "Homeless High"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published June 4, 2009

  "Let the Record Reflect"

• 2009 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published April 10, 2008

  "Exit Exams"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 8, 2008

  "Mental Anguish"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published November 13, 2008

  "Bad Faith"

• 2008 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published May 31, 2007

  "Killing Fences"

• 2008 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published October 25, 2007

  "Death in a Box"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published October 25, 2007

  "Death in a Box"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published August 23, 2007

  "Judging Books and Their Covers"

• 2007 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published October 5, 2006

  "Opt In, Opt Out'

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published October 5, 2006

  "Opt In, Opt Out"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published May 11, 2006

  "Diary of a Mad Man"

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published August 11, 2005

  "Who Cares?"

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published February 17, 2005

  "Mind Reading"

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2012 Stories by Margaret Downing

• The Coast of Utopia: An Extended Run and Revival of Part I -- Good News For Tom Stoppard Lovers

  published Feb 13, 2012

  ​Gird your loins. Main Street Theater which has experienced great success with Voyage, the first part of its The Coast of Utopia trilogy, has decided to extend its run and bring back the Voyage More >>

• HISD's Grier Scores a Semi-Win in Contract Extension, Three Trustees Search for Their Cojones

  published Feb 10, 2012

  ​Three abstentionsr Reallyr You're voting on extending the contract of the man who works for you and you opt outr Decide not to have an opinionr Decide not to share your opinionr Certainly it's More >>

• Bring It On: The Musical

  published January 19, 2012

  Last time out, playwright Jeff Whitty put foul-mouthed puppets on stage and won a Tony for Avenue Q. So why go from that to Bring It... More >>

• Riverdance Winds Down Its U.S. Tour With a Stop in Houston

  published Feb 07, 2012

  ​It was 1996 and Padraic Moyles was sitting in Radio City Music Hall when he got his first glimpse of Riverdance, which was just breaking out to world acclaim. An Irish dancer himself, he decide More >>

• Jacques Imbrailo in The Rape of Lucretia

  published Feb 03, 2012

  ​Jacques Imbrailo, a baritone from South Africa, never intended to be an opera singer. But while working on an undergrad degree in law there, he discovered that he really didn't enjoy it and dec More >>

• Michelle DeYoung in HGO's The Rape of Lucretia

  published Feb 01, 2012

  ​If she had her druthers, mezzo soprano Michelle DeYoung wishes Benjamin Britten had chosen some other name than The Rape of Lucretia for a work with music she describes as "beautiful and lovely More >>

• A Little Respect

  published February 2, 2012

  Antonia Rivas didn't want much out of life. She loved her family: two daughters living in Houston and a son in the U.S. Army stationed in... More >>

• Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia Part 2: Guy Roberts on the Long Arc

  published Jan 31, 2012

  ​The most annoying and in some ways enthralling character in Voyage, the first part of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia trilogy, is revolutionary Michael Bakunin. In fact, there are some part More >>

• Bring It On: Now with Behind-the-Scenes Flips on Video

  published Jan 27, 2012

  Our intrepid Art Director Monica Fuentes went behind the scene to film the cheerleaders rehearsal for Bring It On: The Musical. As our reviewer said previously, this is a show filled with flips and d More >>

• Houston Grand Opera Announces Its Next Season

  published Jan 26, 2012

  ​Expanding to include a seventh opera, a gung-ho Houston Grand Opera today announced its upcoming 2012-13, which will include four new productions. Without further ado, here's the season: Pucc More >>

• Mistakes Were Made: A Comedy of Errors on the Phone

  published Jan 25, 2012

  ​Be prepared. In Mistakes Were Made there will be silent parts. That's because for the entire 90 minutes of the comedy opening at Stages Repertory Theatre next Friday, actor David Matranga is al More >>

• And the Winner of Two Artopia VIP Tickets Is....

  published Jan 24, 2012

  ​We got a lot of response to our giveaway offer for two free VIP tickets to the Houston Press fourth annual Artopia party at Winter Street Studios on January 28. And the person picked randomly More >>

• Adrienne Warren Adds Cheerleading Stunts to Her Repertoire

  published Jan 24, 2012

  ​Last time out, actress Adrienne Warren was touring in a revival of Dream Girls and before that she was in The Wiz. Now she's hitting the boards in Bring It On: The Musical, a show in which dan More >>

• HGO's La Traviata Changes Tenors at the Last Minute

  published Jan 23, 2012

  ​Mexican tenor David Lomeli, who was scheduled to sing the Alfredo role in the Houston Grand Opera production of La Traviata, has had to bow out at the last minute due to illness. He has been r More >>

• Carol O'Connell: The Chalk Girl

  published January 12, 2012

  A red-haired, eight-year-old girl with an elfin smile runs up to strangers looking for a hug. Rather than embracing her, they back off.... More >>

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  Connor Barwin Shows Up at Our Artopia Preview Party! You Should Have Been There!

  published Jan 20, 2012

  ​Check out the rest of our pics from last night's Artopia Preview Party at Roak. Texans linebacker Connor Barwin showed up at last night's Artopia Preview Party and posed for a few photos with More >>

• The Addams Family: The Broadway Musical

  published January 12, 2012

  Forget about hitting the gym in order to get in shape for a role. All actor Blake Hammond, who plays Uncle Fester in the touring company of the... More >>

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  Union Protest at Comcast Friday Over Low-Income Kids Internet Program

  published Jan 19, 2012

  ​Back in September, Comcast made a deal with the Federal Communications Commission as part of its takeover of NBC and Universal Studios that it would provide low-cost Internet services and a che More >>

• Win Two VIP Tickets to the Houston Press Artopia Party

  published Jan 19, 2012

  ​Okay, so the Houston Press is about to throw its annual Artopia party at Winter Street Studios at the end of this month -- a celebration of all things arty and the people who are so inclined. More >>

• La Traviata's Soprano Albina Shagimuratova & HGO's Life-Changing Possibilities

  published Jan 17, 2012

  ​Albina Shagimuratova was going to be a concert pianist. Growing up in what has become the independent republic of Uzbekistan, she was 12 years old when she heard a recording of Maria Callas sin More >>

• Mike Lunceford Elected Prez of HISD School Board, Love Boat-Style

  published Jan 13, 2012

  ​It was a veritable love fest on Thursday night as Michael Lunceford was elected the new president of the Houston ISD school board, nominated by the two trustees who had reportedly been in the r More >>

• Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia Opens at Main Street Theater

  published Jan 11, 2012

  ​Main Street Theater Executive Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden says she loves the work of playwright Sir Tom Stoppard -- "his ideas and his language and the way he's able to articulate co More >>

• Bring It On: The Musical -- Complete With Stunts & Cheers

  published Jan 09, 2012

  ​Last time out, playwright Jeff Whitty put foul-mouthed puppets on stage and won a Tony for Avenue Q. So why go from that to Bring It On: The Musical (soon to be at Houston's Hobby Center cour More >>

• Carol O'Connell Back with Another Kathy Mallory Mystery, Book Signing

  published Jan 05, 2012

  ​ It's difficult to say what's the more gripping image in the opening pages of The Chalk Girl. Is it the strange, elfin child with the wide grin who's covered in dirt and suspicious red spots wh More >>

• Happy New Year to You

  published Jan 01, 2012

  It's Happy New Year time. A wide range of hope (Will this headache ever quitr Can we have world peacer) abounds. You've partied, you've spent, you're full of good ideas for a better 2012. We've been More >>