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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2009 Stories by Elaine Liner

• To Hell With The Recession -This Year Gave Dallas Audiences The Best Productions Of The Decade

  published December 31, 2009

  Art happens. And against all predictions of doom and gloom for the arts in 2009, theaters in and around Dallas and Fort Worth kept making it... More >>

• Winspear's South Pacific Casts A Sexy Spell, Getting Hot But Never Too Heavy

  published December 24, 2009

  South Pacific cuts right to the chase. Moments after the orchestra plays the overture, ex-patriot Frenchman Emile de Becque... More >>

• Puppet Season! Coppertone Wishes Us All A Filthy Christmas; DCT'S Show Counters With G-Rated Aplomb

  published December 17, 2009

  Matthew Posey does things with puppets no child should ever witness. Posey's Balanced Almond troupe is at it again over at The Ochre... More >>

• New Ghosts, New Scrooge Boost DTC's Final Carol At Kalita; Plan Nine's Perfect Fun For Humbugs

  published December 10, 2009

  Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol for quick cash. Dallas Theater Center stages it every December for the same... More >>

• For Some Fee-fi-fo-fun, Go Into the Woods With Jack, A Giant And A Sexy Wolf; Then A Pretty Purrfect Puss In Boots

  published December 3, 2009

  Many wishes are granted in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's much-loved musical Into the Woods, now playing at Richardson... More >>

• Crushing Grain and Slasher Blend Violence And Dark Comedy With Mixed Results

  published November 26, 2009

  The hardest words for some playwrights to type: The End. Two new plays on Dallas stages right now—Bill Fountain's Crushing... More >>

• Upstart's Talk Radio Has A Mouth That Roars; Ochre House Welcomes Terror To An Empty Room

  published November 12, 2009

  Small theaters around Dallas once again are brimming with big ideas and hot talent. The show to see right now—one that will make you... More >>

• DTC's Midsummer is a Blackboard Jumble of Fun, But the Wyly Theatre is a Hard Sit

  published November 5, 2009

  As opening nights go, Dallas Theater Center's October 30 season premiere of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream was a... More >>

• A Triple Order of Frank 'N' Furters Makes for a Rocky Horror Halloween on Area Stages.

  published October 29, 2009

  "It's not easy having a good time," moans Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the glam-rock, cross-dressing mad scientist diva of The Rocky Horror... More >>

• African American Rep, In Its Production of Master Harold... and the Boys, Once Again Proves Why It’s The Strongest Small Theater Company in North Texas

  published October 22, 2009

  The time is 1950. The place is the St. George's Park Tea Room in Port Elizabeth, the Detroit of South Africa. On a rainy afternoon free of... More >>

• Lyric Stage’s Road To Qatar leads a Caravan of Small New Musicals on Local Stages

  published October 15, 2009

  For the creators of The Road to Qatar, the giddy little musical getting its world premiere at Irving's Lyric Stage, a... More >>

• WaterTower Theatre's Grey Gardens: Shades of Glamour Amid Stray Cats and Corn

  published October 8, 2009

  Not until the second act of the musical Grey Gardens, now playing in a rather splendid production at WaterTower Theatre,... More >>

• Theatre Three just passes the Putnam County Spelling test; Mary Poppins does a fly-by

  published October 1, 2009

  Those high school misfits who sing and dance their way to higher self-esteem in the new TV series Glee could be the older siblings of... More >>

• Sticky Situation

  published September 17, 2009

  Playwright Theresa Rebeck loves a neat plot gimmick. Her plays (among the best known are Bad Dates and Omnium Gatherum) have a... More >>

• Echo Theatre’s Mauritius makes harrowing suspense out of postage stamps; while Dallas Children's Theater monkeys around with Junie B. Jones

  published September 24, 2009

  Enjoy a tasty plot twist in your drama? With Mauritius, running one more weekend in a crisp little production by Echo... More >>

• Lyric Stage Finds a Brash, Beautiful Funny Girl in Newcomer Kristin Dausch

  published September 17, 2009

  Funny Girl, now running at Irving's Lyric Stage, is Broadway's great musical comedy Cinderella story. Up from the ash heap... More >>

• Coppertone III: Asylum

  published September 3, 2009

  Matthew Posey and his rude puppets of the Pioneers of the Suavante-Garde troupe pull out a third short saga in the life of Coppertone Jones, "the... More >>

• Get Trapped

  published September 3, 2009

  Every now and then the Pocket Sandwich Theatre puts away the popcorn melodramas and stages a real play. They have a doozey in this 30-year-old... More >>

• Three Dallas Stages Find Dark, Smart Humor in Murder Mental Illness and Fatal Diseases

  published September 3, 2009

  A comedy-mystery about triple murder; a filthy-funny R-rated puppet show; and a gentle, amusing piece about the unlikely bond between a... More >>

• You just can't mask the many missteps of Garland Civic Theatre's Phantom (The Other One)

  published August 27, 2009

  Among items decorating the set of Garland Civic Theatre's production of the musical Phantom: four ceramic lion statues, a... More >>

• Blessed With Sexy Synthpop Satire, Altar Boyz Zings

  published August 13, 2009

  "American consumers are demanding more God in their entertainment every day!" So chirps Matthew, lead singer of an adorably clueless,... More >>

• Theatre Three's Revival of The Royal Family Almost Misses Mightily: Brevity Can't Save Dallas Hub Theater's Romeo and Juliet

  published August 6, 2009

  Powerful gusts of fabulosity must whip around the stage to blow the scent of mothballs off a comedy like The Royal Family. It's... More >>

• Legally Blonde Guilty of Contempt of Audience; FIT Fuels Up Under a Texaco Canopy

  published July 30, 2009

  There is a prima facie case that Legally Blonde The Musical, the latest Broadway tour to roll through the Music Hall at... More >>

• FITs And Starts

  published July 23, 2009

  The slightly scaled-down Festival of Independent Theatres is the tapas bar of local theater, a chance to spend just a few dollars to... More >>

• A Chorus Line, Gutenberg! the Musical: one big, one small, one Dallas, one Fort Worth, both worth it.

  published July 16, 2009

  The 24 dancers going through the "step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch" combination in the iconic opening moments of A Chorus Line... More >>