Email Author Margaret Downing

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 22, 2011

  "Mistaken Identities"

• 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

• Il trovatore (The Troubador)

  published June 14, 2012

  The story is not a happy one. There's poison, babies switched at birth, thwarted love and fratricide. ''But the music is fantastic,'' says Italian... More >>

• The Elephant Man

  published June 14, 2012

  Before Joseph Merrick employed his one useful arm, his left, to build a model of St. Phillip's Church, he was an abused star performer in a freak... More >>

• Tristan and Isolde

  published June 14, 2012

  Never mind that the plot is convoluted and dense, and filled with potions and metaphors. It's the incredible music, the layered emotions that have... More >>

• Dollhouse

  published June 14, 2012

  In Dollhouse, the new play at Stages Repertory Theatre, the character Nora is ''constantly making bets, playing tactics, trying to... More >>

• Rigoletto

  published June 14, 2012

  If you know nothing else about opera, chances are you'll recognize the tune ''La donna è mobile'' from Giuseppe Verdi's... More >>

• Jersey Boys

  published June 14, 2012

  Here's a test. Try reading the following song names without having at least one of them stick in your brain for the rest of today. ''Big Girls... More >>

• A Few Good Men

  published June 14, 2012

  It was the breakthrough moment for playwright Aaron Sorkin. His courtroom drama A Few Good Men ran for more than a year on Broadway... More >>

• God of Carnage

  published June 14, 2012

  Anyone who sits down to watch God of Carnage has to realize that what follows won't exactly be realistic, says Kim Tobin, actress... More >>

• The Language Archive

  published June 14, 2012

  Imagine a professional linguist, a man who speaks countless languages and specializes in preserving dying ones, but who is unable to talk with his... More >>

• Wittenberg

  published June 14, 2012

  Even before Shakespeare's Hamlet, the gloomy Danish prince haunted by the ghost of his murdered father, couldn't make up his mind back at... More >>

• Catch Me if You Can

  published June 14, 2012

  If you thought the 2002 movie version of Catch Me if You Can was exhausting with all those times con man Frank Abagnale Jr. was... More >>

• Memory House

  published June 14, 2012

  Several years ago, playwright and college professor Kathleen Tolan interviewed a woman who had adopted a six-year-old girl from a village in... More >>

• Don Giovanni

  published June 14, 2012

  First performed in Prague in 1787, Mozart's Don Giovanni (Italian for Don Juan) is the story of a notorious womanizer who destroys... More >>

• Show Boat

  published June 14, 2012

  Canadian tenor Joseph Kaiser says he'd always wanted to come sing in Houston and now he's gotten his wish; he'll be playing the role of the... More >>

• Camelot

  published June 14, 2012

  In this production of Camelot for Theatre Under the Stars, director Richard Stafford has gone with lead actors who are younger than... More >>

• The Mountaintop

  published June 14, 2012

  When Katori Hall started pitching her play about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night on earth, no one in the United States was interested.... More >>

• Hit-Lit

  published June 14, 2012

  Actor/writer/director Robert Wuhl (Good Morning, Vietnam; Bull Durham; and HBO’s Arli$$) has come back to the... More >>

• The Marriage of Figaro and Moscow, Cheryomushki

  published June 14, 2012

  If you want a chance to see opera and musical theater stars in the making, then check out Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston, which... More >>

• STOMP !

  published June 14, 2012

  Andres ''Pooh'' Fernandez (he got his nickname because he often wore Winnie-the-Pooh regalia) has been a member of STOMP! for 16... More >>

• Stephen Petronio Company: Underland

  published June 14, 2012

  With so many stories to tell, American dancer/choreographer Stephen Petronio chose a darker journey when the Sydney Dance Company commissioned him... More >>

• It's New Year's Eve and Houston's Discovery Green Is Looking a Little Soggy

  published Dec 31, 2012

  It was a plaintive lament from our city's mayor sent out earlier today. But alas, while Annise Parker may be the mayor of the fourth largest city in America, she does not control the weather. And as... More >>

• First Look Became First Sound at AMC Theatre in First Colony Sunday

  published Dec 31, 2012

  Art Attack is a big fan of AMC Theatres with its Stubs card that gets us free stuff and the cleanliness of its theaters and all. We go all the time. But sometimes, especially on weekends, things can... More >>

• December 31, 2012: Last Chance to Make a Donation to Your Favorite Arts Group

  published Dec 31, 2012

  Put this under the heading of "Priming the Pump" or "How to Avoid Pissing Away the Last Day of the Year." Today you're either at home or barely going through the motions at your office, hoping your b... More >>

• Joseph Kaiser Takes on the Riverboat Gambler Role in the Houston Grand Opera's Show Boat

  published Dec 28, 2012

  This January 18 will be opening night for Houston Grand Opera's production of Show Boat, a somewhat risky, untraditional choice for an opera company, and one that Artistic and Music Director Patrick S... More >>

• Peter Pan

  published June 14, 2012

  Cathy Rigby, the former world champion gymnast and Olympian who transformed herself into an actress and stage performer, has unretired from her... More >>