D.L. Groover

D.L. Groover writes on the arts for the Houston Press, OutSmart magazine, Arts & Culture, and Dance Source Houston. He has received two national awards for his theater criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN), and has previously won three statewide Lone Star Press awards for the same. He is co-author of the irreverent appreciation Skeletons from the Opera Closet (St. Martin’s Press), now in its fourth printing.
  • OutSmart’s Fall Arts Preview

    A leprechaun named Og. A guy who turns into a doll. The heady whiff of ether. A vengeful redhead. A German wife who rescues her husband from the dankest prison…

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  • Arts & Entertainment

    The Arts: Hotter than Houston

    Houston’s 2010 theatrical fall season has something for everyone. There’s a psycho looking for his missing hand, a wild boy who refuses to grow up and lives with a fairy,…

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  • All About A and E

    House of Yes Through September 12 There’s a perfectly good reason why fiancées don’t like to meet potential in-laws—and you’ll learn even more reasons in Wendy MacLeod’s deep dark comedy…

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  • Fall for Art (part two)

    November 7–22 Times Square Angel Playwright, actor, and drag artist extraordinaire Charles Busch—he's the Michelangelo of drag, actually—wrote the hardscrabble character Irish O'Flanagan for himself to play in this goofy…

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  • Fall for Art

    If you can pry yourself away from the 24/7 coverage of the presidential election and get outside the house for some air, you'll find plenty of splendid entertainment to clear…

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  • Some Like Art Hot! (continued)

    What will Houston's newest modern ballet company do with this classical ballet beauty, originally choreographed by 19th century master choreographer Marius Petipa. The gorgeous Tchaikovsky score will remain, we hope,…

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  • Some Like Art Hot

    Hot enough for you? Well, things will get hotter, as the fall arts season heats up with a range of simmering productions that will invigorate, tweak, provoke, make you laugh…

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  • Terrence McNally: Live! Love! Write!

    Terrence McNally is a gentleman and a scholar. Gracious, measuring his words with all the rightness of Julia Child spooning out flour, he has spent 40 years in the American…

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  • Out in the Arts: March 2004

    Understandably excited and anxious over his March 4 Houston Grand Opera world premiere End of the Affair, openly gay composer Jake Heggie points out that he would much rather be…

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  • The Great Gay Way

    Richard Greenberg’s gay baseball play Take Me Out may have recently gone to the showers on Broadway after winning numerous Tony awards and a Pulitzer for best 2003 drama, but…

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