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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2007 Stories by Elaine Liner

• Oddballs

  published May 3, 2007

  An oldie but a goody pops up at Theatre Three. Doug Jackson and Bob Hess play Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar, divorced, middle-aged journalists... More >>

• Truth Be Told

  published May 24, 2007

  Big title for a little gem written and performed by veteran stage and TV actress Ronnie Claire Edwards (The Waltons, Designing Women). In tiny... More >>

• Life and Limb

  published April 19, 2007

  Second Thought Theatre is back with a vengeance with this taut little one-act comedy by Canadian writer Morris Panych. The title characters, the... More >>

• The Right Way

  published April 19, 2007

  It's about time somebody revived a Preston Jones play the right way. Director René Moreno has assembled a cast that really gets the sound... More >>

• Shrew-ed Criticism

  published May 3, 2007

  When Petruchio pulls up his coat to reveal that he's wearing assless pants, director Richard Hamburger, intentionally or not, makes his final... More >>

• Siblings Sedaris

  published May 10, 2007

  The Squeamish are cousins to the Amish, tucked away in Quilt County, selling cheeseballs to gourmet stores to keep the sect afloat. Then one day,... More >>

• Don't Be Afraid

  published June 7, 2007

  You shouldn't be, even if Edward Albee's 45-year-old masterpiece of marital discord does go on well past the three-hour mark. WaterTower Theatre... More >>

• Spamalittle

  published June 28, 2007

  Enough with the meta-musicals, where are the meaty musicals? Monty Python's Spamalot, now at the Music Hall at Fair Park, is... More >>

• Tale o' the Pup

  published June 21, 2007

  Who wouldn't want to take Sylvia home? Talk about adorable. Young, blond, frisky—she's every middle-aged man's fantasy. She also has four... More >>

• Boom Times

  published June 14, 2007

  Hear that? It's the happy hum of satisfied theatergoers enjoying a harmonic convergence of musical theater. At Fair Park you've got a... More >>

• Just Beachy

  published June 14, 2007

  If only The Cape Grill were situated where ideally it should be. That is, a half-mile or less from a pounding blue surf, a stretch of white... More >>

• Playing Rough

  published June 7, 2007

  Reality TV has left little to fear about Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee's once-shocking and still unsettling 1962... More >>

• Joust OK

  published May 31, 2007

  My, my, Michael York looks happy. Why shouldn't he? He's starring in a national tour of Camelot, getting away with sleepwalking... More >>

• Hot Thespian Action

  published May 24, 2007

  He used to see plays for a living. Now Tom Sime is writing them. The former Dallas Morning News and Dallas Observer theater... More >>

• Sibling Ribaldry

  published May 17, 2007

  What a friend she has in cheeses. Sister Elizabeth Donderstock, member of an obscure offshoot of the Amish called the "Squeamish," is the goddess... More >>

• The Wiz That Was

  published April 26, 2007

  The road tour of Wicked first blew into town during the 2005 State Fair with a company that rivaled the Broadway originals for sheer... More >>

• Laughing Mater

  published April 19, 2007

  There's a happy, bouncy lilt to the writing of Preston Jones and Charles Busch. Their plays are nothing alike, but, man, their use of language... More >>

• Imaginary Fiends

  published April 12, 2007

  With friends like these—oh, boy. Two new stage productions—each disquieting, amusing and refreshingly brief—explore the absurd... More >>

• Craic Den

  published April 12, 2007

  When you stop by McCarty's in Richardson—and you should—ask one of the regulars at the bar about the time a guy tried to make... More >>

• Theory's Company

  published April 5, 2007

  Imagine Ben-Hur acted out on a stage the size of a twin bed and you've got The Big Bang. Pure madness is what it is, the... More >>

• Fuzzy Thinking

  published March 29, 2007

  Look at James and the Giant Peach through the eyes of a 5-year-old and you'll see a cute play about a sad British orphan boy who... More >>

• Girls Gone Mild

  published March 22, 2007

  Wendy Wasserstein wrote An American Daughter more than a decade before Hillary Rodham Clinton's election to the Senate and her push... More >>

• Get the Hook

  published March 22, 2007

  Seafood is brain food" says the motto on the menu at Fish Express. Given the name of the place, an expectation of good fish served quickly... More >>

• Perfect Game

  published March 15, 2007

  Finally, Dallas Theater Center does August Wilson. Only took them 20 years to get around to it. That's about how long Wilson's work has... More >>

• Without a Hitch

  published March 8, 2007

  Cara Statham Serber, Megan Kelly, Patty Breckenridge, Stacey Oristano and Sara Shelby-Martin crowd the top shelf of Dallas' professional musical... More >>