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

• Waiting to Inhale

  published April 24, 2003

  More than anything, Cyrano de Bergerac is terrified that his beautiful cousin, Roxane, will laugh at his nose. Cyrano is madly in love with... More >>

• In a Drood Mood

  published April 17, 2003

  When all elements come together, a night at the theater can be as refreshing as a three-day weekend. In WaterTower Theatre's production of... More >>

• These Foolish Things

  published April 10, 2003

  Harold Pinter scares people. His plays can be obtuse, his characters off-putting and brittle. He likes to juggle time, tossing conversations... More >>

• It's De-Lovely

  published April 3, 2003

  As escapist entertainment, Cole Porter's Anything Goes hits all the right notes. Within its two hours of slap-happiness are heard... More >>

• Three's a Crowd

  published March 27, 2003

  Setting a play at a high school reunion is a risky choice. Most people dread reunions. Like weddings and funerals, those two other overused plot... More >>

• French Letters

  published March 20, 2003

  Times being what they are, one line in Act 2 of the play Transatlantic Liaison is guaranteed to goose the audience to... More >>

• Look Who's Stalking

  published March 13, 2003

  Plays by Rebecca Gilman should come with a warning label: "As seen in Ladies Home Journal." Gilman constructs heavy, overwritten dramas,... More >>

• Non-fat Greek Wedding

  published March 6, 2003

  Some actors really throw themselves into their roles. Throughout the 90-minute drama Big Love, now playing at Dallas... More >>

• Sour Hereafter

  published February 27, 2003

  Collectively, giant squid now outweigh the entire human population. Got that from a report in Weekly World News, the most reliable of... More >>

• Look Oy Vey, Dixieland

  published February 20, 2003

  Two plays, one question: What does it mean when members of an ethnic group practice intolerance toward their own? In Alfred Uhry's The Last... More >>

• Supreme Fare

  published February 13, 2003

  Everybody sings up a storm in Dreamgirls, the nostalgic backstage musical about a stormy Motown girl group torn asunder by ambition... More >>

• Fission Trip

  published February 6, 2003

  This is a glowing review for a play about plutonium. For three hours in Michael Frayn's fact-based Copenhagen, nearly perfect in the... More >>

• Surface Tension

  published January 30, 2003

  Though The Laramie Project recounts some scant details of his life and the awful facts of his death, Matthew Shepard himself is... More >>

• Patriot Acts

  published January 23, 2003

  If comedy is tragedy plus time, then 150 years from now, The Complete History of America (abridged) might be hailed as a comic... More >>

• Wilde Things

  published January 16, 2003

  As light and crisp as the bubbles in a Buck's Fizz, the dialogue in Oscar Wilde's infrequently performed comedy-melodrama Lady Windermere's... More >>

• Disorganized Crime

  published January 9, 2003

  Hello, Godmudda. Hello, fodder for a Pocket Sandwich Theatre comedy whose jokes are so bad one suspects the script was... More >>

• The Freaks Come Out

  published January 2, 2003

  Dallas theater turned out some cruel and freaky work in 2002. In A Clockwork Orange at Quad C Theatre, gangs of cranked-up... More >>