Email Author Elaine Liner

Awards

• 2006 - Katie Awards

  "Something to Sneeze At"

• 2006 - Katie Awards

  "Grain Man"

• 2006 - Katie Awards

  "With a Vanya on My Knee"

• 2006 - Katie Awards

  "Madame Ovary"

• 2006 - Katie Awards

  "First, Noel"

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2013 Stories by Elaine Liner

• Val Kilmer as Mark Twain at the Wyly: Our Non-Review Review

  published Apr 19, 2013

  "I like criticism, but it must be my way," said Mark Twain. That also goes for the actor Val Kilmer, currently portraying Twain at the Wyly Theatre (through April 22) in a one-man touring production h... More >>

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  Val Kilmer is in Dallas, Eating Jimmy's and Prepping for Citizen Twain, So We Talked

  published Apr 18, 2013

  By now, every media slob in Dallas has interviewed Val Kilmer. The 53-year-old actor's been in town for a couple of weeks, rehearsing his one-man Citizen Twain show, playing April 18 through 21 at the... More >>

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  Fun House Theatre's New All-Kids Play is Glengarry Glen Ross but with Girl Scouts

  published Apr 16, 2013

  Nobody's doing children's theater around here the way Jeff Swearingen, Bren Rapp and the kids of Fun House Theatre and Film in Plano are doing it. We liked their all-youth Man of La Mancha and were im... More >>

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  How to Improve the Arts in Dallas: The Best Lessons from Mayor Rawlings' Symposium

  published Apr 11, 2013

  At City Performance Hall last night, Mayor Mike Rawlings led a panel discussion about the future of the arts in Dallas, part of his #DallasArtsWeek initiative. All the panelists - Dallas Museum of Art... More >>

• D.L. Coburn Won a Pulitzer for The Gin Game in '78, and the Game's Been Going Ever Since

  published Mar 22, 2013

  The best things that can happen to a playwright happened to Dallas writer D. L. Coburn in the 1970s. Then in his mid-30s and working in advertising, Coburn wrote his first play, The Gin Game, a two-ac... More >>

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  Six Shows to Check Out at the WaterTower Theatre's Out of the Loop Fringe Fest

  published Mar 05, 2013

  For the impatient theatergoer, festivals such as WaterTower Theatre's Out of the Loop Fringe are a good fit. Lots of short, provocative pieces. (Most performances come in under an hour.) A mix of danc... More >>

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  The Dallas Theater Center's New Season: Fortress of Solitude, Les Mis and More

  published Mar 04, 2013

  By now it's clear that Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty wishes he could fly. This season he has two shows back-to-back with "Fly" in the title: Fly by Night, set during the 1965 ... More >>

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  At Fun House Theatre, a Bunch of Kids Are Doing Hamlet, and Doing it Really Well

  published Mar 01, 2013

  There are child actors and there are real actors who happen to be children. At Fun House Theatre in Plano, a company we've praised before, 18 serious actors, ages 10 to 17, are doing an impressive pro... More >>

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  We'll Get Another Ride On The Eve, This Time at Theatre Three

  published Feb 19, 2013

  If you missed On the Eve, the thrilling new rock musical by Dallas' own Michael Federico (book) and Seth and Shawn Magill of the band Home by Hovercraft (music), during its sold-out run at the Magnoli... More >>

• Why Couldn't the Dallas Theater Center's New House Playwright Be Someone from Dallasr

  published Jan 08, 2013

  Dallas Theater Center now has a full-time playwright-in-residence. He is Will Power, recipient of a fat grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which is spending $3.7 million to support new play... More >>