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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2013 Stories by Margaret Downing

• Dollhouse: Figuring the Odds While Trying to Hold onto a Life

  published Mar 22, 2013

  Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House shocked audiences in the late 1800s with its ending. (Spoiler Alert for all the people who fell asleep in high school English.) Nora, the wife and mother, walks out, slam... More >>

• UH's Moores Opera Center Tackles "Lust, Love and a Fateful Curse" in Rigoletto

  published Mar 21, 2013

  Never let it be said that Buck Ross and the University of Houston's Moores Opera Center hesitate to think big. Not when they're getting ready to roll out their production of Giuseppe Verdi 's Rigolett... More >>

• Tommy Tune Awards 2013 Nominees Announced; Let's Talk About It

  published Mar 20, 2013

  Theatre Under the Stars has just released its list of finalists for the Tommy Tune Awards and as in years past, there will be a best actor and best actress and a best play and other bests at the April... More >>

• Guy Roberts: Into the Breech

  published March 21, 2013

  Anyone lucky enough to catch Guy Roberts at Houston's Main Street Theater last year, knows of his chameleon-like properties. In the Tom... More >>

• Guy Roberts, Last Year's Bad King Richard III is This Year's Good King Henry V at Main Street Theater

  published Mar 19, 2013

  Update: The run of Henry V has been extended to April 28. Actor/ Director Guy Roberts was going to be a painter until he saw Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet when he was 15. "I literally had somethi... More >>

• Person of Interest: All In

  published Mar 15, 2013

  This season, Person of Interest has really been up and down as Pete Vonder Haar has been reporting. Filling in for him last night, I had hoped I'd be seeing one of the better ones, making him regret t... More >>

• Cruzar la Cara de la Luna: The Mariachi Opera Returns to Houston After a Trip to France

  published Mar 14, 2013

  Growing up in Hermonsillo , Mexico, Octavio Moreno entered a couple mariachi contests when he was in junior high and high school, and even made it to the regionals one year. But he never thought of si... More >>

• Jersey Boys: Rev Up Your Falsetto and Walk Like a Man

  published Mar 12, 2013

  Colby Foytik grew up in Southern California in the '70s and '80s. "There's absolutely nothing Italian or Jersey about me," he says laughing. But that hasn't stopped him from playing Tommy DeVito in ... More >>

• Here's the Champion Artwork at the 2013 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

  published Mar 05, 2013

  Denisse Molina, who drew a picture of a cowboy getting his saddle ready for a day's work, took top honors out of more than 300,000 pieces entered in this year's Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School... More >>

• A Few Good Men: A Courtroom Thriller and Character Study at the Alley Theatre

  published Feb 28, 2013

  Audiences are making a mistake if they think A Few Good Men is a courtroom thriller and nothing more, says Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd. "Its provenance certainly lies in the tradit... More >>

• Preserving Houston in Photo Mashups: Houston Press's Abrahan Garza on PBS W/ VIDEO

  published Feb 28, 2013

  Houston Press front desk receptionist Abrahan Garza is also an avid photographer. His mashups of old postcards and photographs with the city of Houston as it is now, have been presented several time... More >>

• Taiwan Cinema Film Fest at Rice Media Center This Weekend

  published Feb 22, 2013

  Rice Media Center is hosting a film festival from Taiwan -- the other China -- that gives you a chance for a closeup look at films made there in the mid-1980s. Entitled Taiwan New Cinema: 30 Years On... More >>

• Food Writing Freelancers Wanted for China -- No, Silly, for the Houston Press

  published Feb 22, 2013

  The Houston Press is looking for a few more freelance food writers to help our readers navigate the gastronomic layout of the Houston area. Crucial ingredients: You not only know something about foo... More >>

• God of Carnage Proves Playground Fights Aren't Just Kids' Territory

  published Feb 20, 2013

  A playground fight between two children has led to a meeting of four concerned (well some not so much) parents. In playwright Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, politeness turns to disagreement and then i... More >>

• In This Man of la Mancha, They'll Be Moving, But Not Off Stage

  published Feb 20, 2013

  Probably the most interesting conceit in this version of Man of La Mancha as produced by Theatre Under the Stars is that all the actors stay on stage the whole time throughout the play. They're pris... More >>

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  Catastrophic Theatre Announces its Fifth Season & With Good Reason, There's More Verse, So Don't Be Adverse (To Going)

  published Feb 16, 2013

  Catastrophic Theatre has announced its fifth season in which it's bringing back a recent success (There Is a Happiness That Morning Is) , presenting two world premieres (Tamarie Cooper is Old as Hell ... More >>

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  Theatre Under the Stars Announces its 2013-14 Season: An Elf, a Mermaid, A Wizard and Two Drag Queens and a Transsexual to Boot

  published Feb 16, 2013

  Today, Theatre Under the Stars is announcing its main stage Hobby Center productions for the next season, one that depends heavily on the tried-and-true and Hollywood-to-stage offerings. And a little ... More >>

• Sally Edmundson Makes Her Directing Debut in The Language Archives at Stages

  published Feb 06, 2013

  George is a very smart man. He's a linguist, speaks countless languages and specializes in preserving dying ones. He's on the verge of making a great professional breakthrough. Alas, however, in play... More >>

• Catch Me If You Can: Fast Talking and Fast Action

  published Feb 04, 2013

  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 running like hell to escape his dedicated pursuer, Carl Hanratty, and ... More >>

• Actor/Director and Now Playwright Robert Wuhl Speaks About the Genesis of Hit-Lit at UH

  published Feb 01, 2013

  Check out our review of Hit-Lit. The great thing about theater, says actor/writer/director Robert Wuhl (Good Morning Vietnam, Bull Durham and HBO's Arli$$), "is you can use imagination more." "Wit... More >>

• Opening for Houston Press Web Editor

  published Jan 31, 2013

  The Houston Press has an immediate opening for a full-time web editor. This position combines journalism with social media marketing and analytical data management to increase the audience for the Pre... More >>

• Take That, Canada! Soccer Nerd Chants at USA-Canada Game

  published Jan 30, 2013

  Last night's soccer game between the U.S. Men's team and Canada's Men's Team was a little slow, admittedly, but fans seated in Section 113 got to experience fanatic behavior at its most bizarre. Well ... More >>

• The Book of Mormon, War Horse, Top List of Gexa Energy Broadway Houston Offerings For 2013-14 Season

  published Jan 27, 2013

  Today, Gexa Energy Broadway is announcing its 2013-14 musical season starting in September with one that a lot of theater patrons have been hoping to see here: The Book of Mormon, the story of two Mor... More >>

• Houston Grand Opera Gets $2 Million Gift From Two Donors Who Really Like Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungen

  published Jan 24, 2013

  With less than two weeks to go before Mardi Gras season, two gentlemen from Louisiana began the party early for the Houston Grand Opera by deciding to donate $2 million toward the company's ambitious ... More >>

• Houston Press Artopia 2013 - The Winners are In

  published Jan 23, 2013

  In today's edition of the Houston Press we are announcing this year's winners of our MasterMind Award. For five years now we've handed out checks of $2,000 to three individuals or groups for doing wha... More >>