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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2008 Stories by Elaine Liner

• Trysts in Toledo: Theatre Three's 17th-Century Nunsense Doesn't Wear Well

  published December 25, 2008

  As the Tina Fey of the 17th century, Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz wrote sly comedy that by all accounts cracked up audiences in the parlors and... More >>

• One Play's Too Long, Another Too Slow. Hey, it's the Holidays.

  published December 18, 2008

  What a shame that Ebenezer Scrooge didn't have a gentleman's gentleman like Jeeves at his side. Scrooge's forced march to personal redemption... More >>

• Some Holiday Fare Is Fairer Than Others—and Funnier

  published December 11, 2008

  In a cage match, Crumpet the Elf could kick the cranberries off Ebenezer Scrooge and still have the energy to stomp Tiny Tim and the Ghost of... More >>

• DTC's A Christmas Carol Offers a Good Scrooging

  published December 4, 2008

  Ignorance, poverty, greed, forgiveness—the themes of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol are particularly relevant at this... More >>

• A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant

  published November 27, 2008

  Seesawing between vicious satire and fawning tribute, A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant offers a... More >>

• Love and The Goat Get Messy Onstage

  published November 20, 2008

  Just in time for the holiday season comes a play about a man having sex with a goat. Leave it to Kitchen Dog Theater, never ones for... More >>

• Topdog/Underdog and Neat Explore Bitter and Sweet Stories of Very Different Black Families

  published November 13, 2008

  On November 4, Topdog/Underdog became a period piece. Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer winner about black brothers named Lincoln and... More >>

• Make Me a Song Makes a Case for William Finn; Coronado Cast Stages a Walkout

  published November 6, 2008

  A neon portrait of its composer-lyricist smiles down on Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn, now playing in WaterTower... More >>

• The Light in the Piazza at Theater Three Would Benefit from Low Expectations

  published October 30, 2008

  Lower your expectations a notch for Theatre Three's production of the 2005 hit Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza.... More >>

• Dallas Theater Center's Engrossing, Heretical Take on the Civil Rights Movement

  published October 23, 2008

  No single character represents The Good Negro in Tracey Scott Wilson's explosive new play, getting its world premiere at... More >>

• Jerry Russell Keeps On Golden Pond From Being its Schmaltzy Self

  published October 16, 2008

  When Jerry Russell plays the lead, that's reason enough to see the show, even when that show is On Golden Pond, Ernest Thompson's... More >>

• Lipstick on a Pig

  published October 9, 2008

  Nobody in the theater intentionally puts on a "steaming turd of a play," says Sylvia Glenn, one of two actress-characters in the showbiz-based... More >>

• The Pillowman: A Modern Fairy Tale (No Happy Ending)

  published September 25, 2008

  Once upon a time there was a writer named Katurian. Full name Katurian K. Katurian. His parents had a sick sense of humor, he explains to the... More >>

• Few Good Men

  published September 18, 2008

  Merely by chance, Defiance, a snappy 2006 drama by Moonstruck writer John Patrick Shanley, and A Soldier's... More >>

• Crazy Cool

  published September 11, 2008

  Scruffy but beautiful kids singing and dancing their angry, aching hearts out against graffiti-scrawled walls of Manhattan... More >>

• Enter Stage Right

  published August 28, 2008

  Scene 1: Enter the prince It's the first hour of the first day of rehearsal for Dallas Theater Center's first... More >>

• Your Show of Shows

  published August 28, 2008

  If it were produced the way its characters intended, The Big Bang would fill a big stage with 312 actors, 6,000 costumes, 302... More >>

• Bizarro World

  published August 14, 2008

  In Zanna, Don't! every kid has two mommies. Or two daddies. Being gay is the norm, and heteros are closeted in the candy-colored,... More >>

• Valli High

  published July 31, 2008

  Oh, what a night. A great big Broadway smash called Jersey Boys hits the Music Hall at Fair Park and suddenly everything... More >>

• Two-Timing

  published July 24, 2008

  Two plays, one cast of characters. That’s the tricky problem of House and Garden, the simultaneous double bill... More >>

• Clique Shtick

  published July 10, 2008

  With its Romeo and Juliet-inspired plotline about a troubled romance between teenagers from competing cliques, with its soaring love... More >>

• Magnum Farce

  published July 3, 2008

  A good production of a good play about a bad production of a bad play is the tricky part of staging Noises Off. Michael Frayn's... More >>

• Frog Hops, Yanks Croak

  published June 26, 2008

  Hard to tell who gets a bigger kick out of A Year With Frog and Toad—the kiddos in the seats at Dallas Children's... More >>

• Blair Bitch Project

  published June 19, 2008

  Which of the following was not in an episode of the 1980s sitcom The Facts of Life: (a) Tootie announces the onset of puberty by yelling... More >>

• Coot Trick

  published June 12, 2008

  The years have been kind to The Oldest Living Graduate. The last play in Preston Jones' Texas Trilogy holds up even better... More >>