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    Mindless Fun

    Gilligan's Island is so silly and appealing, you can only enjoy it

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: June 19, 2008

    Sitcom classic Gilligan's Island has been in syndication for so long, it's a shock to realize that it ran on CBS for only three seasons, 1964 through 1966. Savaged by the...

  2. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Electile Dysfunction, Present Laughter

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
    Published: June 19, 2008

    bare Damon Intrabartolo (music and book) and Jon Hartmere (book and lyrics) call their vigorous and entertaining R-rated musical set at a co-ed Catholic boarding school a "pop...

  3. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Big Range Dance Festival, Electile Dysfunction, La Sylphide and A Doll's House, Present Laughter, The Splasher

    By D.L. Groover, Marene Gustin and Lee Williams
    Published: June 12, 2008

    bare Damon Intrabartolo (music and book) and Jon Hartmere (book and lyrics) call their vigorous and entertaining R-rated musical set at a co-ed Catholic boarding school a "pop...

  4. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Ashes to Africa, The Heiress, Time of My Life, The Wedding Singer, You Can't Take It With You

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
    Published: May 15, 2008

    Ashes to Africa Everything from death to sexual dysfunction troubles the Henderson family. Grandma's about to kick it, Mom's overworked, Dad's got his nose in girly mags and...

  5. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Billy Budd, The Heiress, One Flea Spare, Time of My Life

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: May 8, 2008

    Billy Budd Throughout Houston Grand Opera's Billy Budd (1951), an unseaworthy mechanical gizmo spins on stage — it's an annoying mechanical platform that's supposed to be...

  6. Theater

    Ignore the set of Billy Budd, and you'll hear a masterpiece

    Listen Up

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: May 1, 2008

    Throughout Houston Grand Opera's Billy Budd (1951), an unseaworthy mechanical gizmo spins on stage — it's an annoying mechanical platform that's supposed to be the deck...

  7. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: La Bohème, One Flea Spare, Twelve Angry Men

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: May 1, 2008

    La Bohème It doesn't really matter that there's no passion or fire between Ana Maria Martinez and Garrett Sorenson in their roles as eternal lovers Mimi and Rodolfo, in...

  8. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: La Bohème, Leading Ladies, Love Loves a Pornographer, Rounding Third, Twelve Angry Men

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
    Published: April 24, 2008

    La Bohème It doesn't really matter that there's no passion or fire between Ana Maria Martinez and Garrett Sorenson in their roles as eternal lovers Mimi and Rodolfo, in...

  9. Theater

    Loving Love Loves a Pornographer

    Nova Arts Project surprises with a wicked Victorian comedy-of-manners parody

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: April 17, 2008

    It takes a few minutes to become acclimated to Nova Arts Project's immaculate staging of Love Loves a Pornographer, Jeff Goode's wicked parody of a late Victorian comedy of...

  10. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Gutenberg! The Musical!, La Bohème, Rounding Third, Underneath the Lintel, Young and Fertle

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
    Published: April 17, 2008

    Gutenberg! The Musical! Pirate Queen, Dance of the Vampires and Kelly – these were rank bombs all, made legendary by their horridness. Billed as serious Broadway...

  11. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Gutenberg! The Musical!, Sty of the Blind Pig, Underneath the Lintel, Wit

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
    Published: April 10, 2008

    Gutenberg! The Musical! Pirate Queen, Dance of the Vampires and Kelly – these were rank bombs all, made legendary by their horridness. Billed as serious Broadway...

  12. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Lucky Stiff, Pack of Lies, Sty of the Blind Pig, Underneath the Lintel, Wit

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
    Published: April 3, 2008

    Lucky Stiff The Tony Award-winning musical theater duo of Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music), creators of Ragtime, Seussical the Musical and, on April 19, the...

  13. Theater

    See Sty of the Blind Pig

    The Ensemble Theatre produces a work of poetry and power

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: March 27, 2008

    In her south-side Chicago apartment, matriarch Weedy Warren (Deborah Oliver Artis) waits for her spinster daughter Alberta (Cheray Dawn Josiah) to get home from work. She rocks...

  14. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Gutenberg! The Musical!, Othello, Pack of Lies, Young and Fertle,

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: March 27, 2008

    Gutenberg! The Musical! Pirate Queen, Dance of the Vampires and Kelly – these were rank bombs all, made legendary by their horridness. Billed as serious Broadway...

  15. Theater

    Veteran Villain: Othello

    James Black paints a magnificent portrait of evil

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: March 20, 2008

    Veteran Alley actor James Black slips so completely under the skin of Shakespeare's most malignant knave, he might as well be slathered in K-Y. The role of blackhearted Iago in...

  16. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, Pack of Lies, Translations, Young and Fertle

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
    Published: March 20, 2008

    Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead Oh, that Peanuts gang. Dear old Charles Schulz would be spinning in his grave if he knew what happened to his lovable bunch of...

  17. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Cinderella, Pack of Lies, Regrets Only, Young and Fertle

    By D.L. Groover and Marene Gustin
    Published: March 13, 2008

    Cinderella All those little girls obsessed with Disney princess culture should go watch Houston Ballet's Cinderella. Spoiler alert: Cinderella does not end up with the prince....

  18. Theater

    The Importance of Being Earnest is Just About perfect

    Power Players

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: March 6, 2008

    Oscar Wilde's 1895 delicious comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, is verifiably one of theater's masterpieces. A perfect play, it works like gangbusters on the...

  19. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: "Hello, Dolly!," "Lady," "Last Acts," "Regrets Only"

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
    Published: March 6, 2008

    Hello, Dolly! So who stuck a pin into Jerry Herman's buoyant classic 1964 musical and let all the air out? You recognize the music — almost all the songs in Hello, Dolly!...

  20. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: "Regrets Only," "Young and Fertle"

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: February 28, 2008

    Regrets Only After seeing Paul Rudnick's torn-from-the-headlines social satire about gay marriage, you'll know one thing for sure: Never get into a bitch-slap contest with him,...

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