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

• Review: Cafe R&D

  published June 5, 2008

  The prettiest dishes at Café R&D aren't coming out of the busy open kitchen; they're posing around the oval stretch of bar, or... More >>

• Doggie Style

  published June 5, 2008

  The dog days of Dallas theater are upon us. With A Dog's Life at Theatre Three, we have the sweetest musical comedy of the... More >>

• For Heavy Historical Drama, Intimate Apparel Seems Too Transparent

  published May 29, 2008

  As soon as Esther, the modest black seamstress at the center of Intimate Apparel, says she's sewn her life savings into the... More >>

• Ring of Fire Walks the Line and Stumbles With Johnny Cash's Music

  published May 22, 2008

  Not quite a concert, not quite a bio, not quite much of anything, Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash takes two hours of tunes... More >>

• Rain Drips With Beatles Nostalgia, While Freakshow and Misanthrope Make for Hard Day's Nights at the Theater

  published May 8, 2008

  Something funny, sad but a little bit wonderful happens between audience and players in Rain: The Beatles Experience, the musical... More >>

• Say Hello, Dolly! or Spend Tuesdays With Morrie

  published May 1, 2008

  Few shows are so overdone as this one. Critics dread reviewing it again and again. Ardent theatergoers greet its title on a new season brochure... More >>

• The Wedding Singer Stage Performance Falls Way Short of the Flick

  published April 24, 2008

  In the second hour of Bent, two men carry rocks, one at a time, from one pile to another. When all of them are stacked, the same... More >>

• Richard III

  published April 3, 2008

  Trust Kitchen Dog Theater not to do anything ordinary with Shakespeare’s second-longest play. For starters, director Ian Leson (who’s... More >>

• Snake Eyes at the Mardi Gras Motel

  published April 3, 2008

  Steven Walters’ latest new work for Second Thought Theatre combines high school football, violence, sexual abuse and the death penalty for... More >>

• Review: Spiral Diner & Bakery

  published April 17, 2008

  Dining out with a vegan is like a date with Mr. Bean, the Rowan Atkinson character for whom things rarely go right. In our group of friends,... More >>

• Leukemia for laughs in CTD's Marvin's Room

  published April 17, 2008

  A comedy about terminal illness? That's the ticket at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas' production of the late Scott McPherson's 1991 play... More >>

• Review: Kitchen Dog Theater Puts on a Lean, Mean Richard III

  published April 10, 2008

  By comparison, King Richard III makes Macbeth look like a pussycat. As Shakespeare's worst/best sociopath, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, romps... More >>

• Theatrical Version of Neil Young's Greendale Leaves an Unpleasant Aftertaste

  published April 3, 2008

  Rooted in his signature bluesy folk-rock and branching out into all sorts of other forms, Greendale has become Neil Young's... More >>

• Major Barbara is Worth the Major Commitment

  published March 27, 2008

  All 103-year-olds should look as good as Major Barbara. There are lots of lines but few wrinkles in George Bernard Shaw's... More >>

• Dallas Theater Center Finely Combs Through The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead

  published March 20, 2008

  The latest out-of-town import to arrive at the Dallas Theater Center's Kalita Humphreys stage lets the audience see through walls. In... More >>

• The Unseen Steals the Show at the Out of the Loop Festival

  published March 13, 2008

  The Unseen must be seen. Wedged into a ragged repertory of a dozen shows at WaterTower Theatre's seventh annual Out of... More >>

• Murder at the Howard Johnson's Serves Up Flavorful Fare

  published March 6, 2008

  Pocket Sandwich Theatre gets no respect. The only for-profit theater in Dallas, the charming but grungy playhouse tucked into a corner... More >>

• Review: BayGrill in Frisco

  published February 28, 2008

  Takes some nerve to open a restaurant in the westernmost flatlands of Frisco and call it BayGrill. It doesn't even have a bay window,... More >>

• Bare Returns to Catholic School Where Boys Will Be Boyfriends

  published February 28, 2008

  Count on these things in most every Uptown Players production: cute guys kissing and at least one young man stripping down to scanty... More >>

• Cold Hands, Warm Hearts in Almost, Maine

  published February 21, 2008

  How sweet the sound of the other shoe dropping. All through Almost, Maine, the captivating comedy at WaterTower's Studio... More >>

• Tony 'n' Tina's Nuptials Take the Cake

  published February 14, 2008

  The fourth wall springs a leak in two shows now playing Dallas stages. At Risk Theater Initiative's Slaughterhouse Five, a... More >>

• Ella

  published January 31, 2008

  The First Lady of Song? How about Empress of All That Swings? Ella Fitzgerald comes to life again in the voice and “scat-itude” of... More >>

• Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

  published January 31, 2008

  Like Ella, this one-woman biographical musical, directed by Phyllis Cicero, allows for lots of songs, interspersed with personal monologues about... More >>

• Spotless Acting in Stage West's Clean House

  published February 7, 2008

  From a chance remark overheard at a party, East Coast playwright Sarah Ruhl was inspired to create The Clean House, now playing... More >>

• First Ladies of Jazz

  published January 31, 2008

  Things just got a whole lot cooler around here. At two Dallas theaters, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday are back and ready to swing. Giving... More >>