Email Author Elaine Liner

Awards

• 2006 - Katie Awards

  "First, Noel"

• 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"

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2003 Stories by Elaine Liner

• Open Toad

  published December 18, 2003

  Dallas theatergoers can be aggressively vocal with their opinions. Some audience members open their gobs and offer audible reviews of a show while... More >>

• Plaid Tidings

  published December 11, 2003

  Somewhere Lawrence Welk is smiling. This holiday season there's ah-one and ah-two oldies musical revues on the boards, each offering Welkified... More >>

• Double-wide Indemnity

  published November 20, 2003

  Bad things happen in trailer parks. Between tornados, they're magnets for human mayhem. Any episode of Cops finds a squad car rolling into... More >>

• Hungarian Rhapsody

  published November 13, 2003

  Disturbing, daring, exceedingly funny, The Danube takes dark, unexpected turns. This fascinating one-act, now onstage in a sharply... More >>

• Painful With Drawl

  published November 6, 2003

  Each scene in The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild, now onstage at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, is introduced with a... More >>

• Ghoul Crazy

  published October 30, 2003

  Beneath the jagged scars on the heaving chest of Dr. Frankenstein's scary monster beats the heart of a true romantic. Just whose heart it is--or... More >>

• Shaw Business

  published October 23, 2003

  'Tis pity Mother is a whore. That's the theme of George Bernard Shaw's drawing-room drama Mrs. Warren's Profession, now getting a... More >>

• Tangled Webs

  published October 16, 2003

  In Kiss of the Spider Woman, the haunting Kander and Ebb musical now running at the Trinity River Arts Center, two men share a tiny... More >>

• Casts of Killers

  published October 9, 2003

  Stephen Sondheim's Assassins takes aim at the American dream and blows it to smithereens. The strangely hypnotic musical, now... More >>

• Island Fantasy

  published September 25, 2003

  At a recent performance of Hamlet at the Dallas Theater Center, the temperature inside the Kalita Humphreys Theater was so cold the ushers... More >>

• Hamlet Maneuver

  published September 18, 2003

  Here's one way to tell if a production is good. Say the curtain goes up at 8 p.m. If the first time you check your watch the little hand is near... More >>

• Anatomy Lesson

  published September 11, 2003

  Hedwig and the Angry Inch is every inch the rock musical Rent tried to be and wasn't. That Hedwig also is a campy drag... More >>

• Auntie Mom

  published September 4, 2003

  You have to have some big set of scones to rewrite William Shakespeare's longest, most famous play. So here's some advice for Dallas... More >>

• Walküre, Texas Ranger

  published July 31, 2003

  Squeezing Wagner's four-opera, 17-hour Der Ring des Nibelungen down to two hours and 20 minutes leaves no room for the... More >>

• Hollow Victory

  published July 24, 2003

  For a moment in The Hollow, a toothsome Agatha Christie murder mystery now onstage at Theatre Three, it looks as if... More >>

• Delusions of Grandma

  published July 17, 2003

  Just opened at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas is a play called Close Ties. The title is misleading, for the truth is, the... More >>

• Bard to Tears

  published July 10, 2003

  One thing about watching Hamlet, Shakespeare's longest play: By the time the drama drags its boots into the fifth and final act, we... More >>

• Will Power

  published July 3, 2003

  With a curtain time of 8:15 p.m., performances of Shakespeare Festival of Dallas' current production of The Taming of the Shrew light up... More >>

• Coming and Going

  published June 12, 2003

  Lovers meet each other coming and going in The Last Five Years, a poignant and inventive two-person musical now onstage at Plano... More >>

• Harlem Nocturne

  published June 5, 2003

  In the parlance of Harlem circa 1943, an "old settler" was an unsettling term for a woman of a certain age who had no children, no husband and no... More >>

• So Seuss Me

  published May 29, 2003

  "Adults are obsolete children," said Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, the beloved author of dozens of books that taught children to read... More >>

• Altar Egos

  published May 22, 2003

  Shortly after saying "I do," Jane, the main character in Ground Zero Theater Company's strange, sexy, wonderful new one-act play... More >>

• Chaos Theories

  published May 15, 2003

  The plot thickens. In any decent stage play, that's what usually occurs around the 20-minute point in Act 1. We get some conflict, some trouble.... More >>

• Bats Amore

  published May 8, 2003

  Bat Boy just wants to be loved. Is that so wrong? In the creepy, funny, disturbing Bat Boy: The Musical, now playing... More >>

• Full Steam Ahead

  published May 1, 2003

  On a stripped-down set of black metal scaffolding and simple black wooden cubes, Irving's Lyric Stage company makes the audience see things... More >>