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

• Theatre Too Shows There's Good Times Singing About Hard Times in its Woody Guthrie Revue; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Runs Out of Gas

  published July 2, 2009

  Bad times make for good music. Woody Guthrie's American Song, now playing at Theatre Too in The Quadrangle, celebrates the... More >>

• Casting Young Cuts Against Chemistry in Romeo and Juliet

  published June 18, 2009

  With Romeo and Juliet, the problem is this: Cast seasoned actors who look a little too old for the title roles or use young ones... More >>

• Uptown Players Drag Forth A Faye-Ragious Mommie Queerest; Watertower's Receptionist Leaves No Message

  published June 11, 2009

  Serious theater exploring the existential boundaries of the human condition, provoking deep thoughts and stirring the soul—Uptown... More >>

• New actors freshen up old fave, Greater Tuna; no bite in Kitchen Dog’s contest winner

  published June 4, 2009

  Seeing Greater Tuna performed by two actors other than Joe Sears and Jaston Williams is like going to a concert knowing it's a... More >>

• Death: The Musical Breathes Life into Pocket Sandwich Theatre

  published May 28, 2009

  Pocket Sandwich Theatre takes a break from its usual popcorn-throwing fluff to give audiences something better to chew on, the premiere... More >>

• The Nuns in the Runs of Two Local Performances--Hail Mary and Nunsense--Are Praying It for Laughs

  published May 21, 2009

  Nuns are funny. They must be, or why would so many playwrights type so many comedies about goofy brides of Christ in black-and-white get-ups?... More >>

• There's an Insanely Well Acted House of Blue Leaves in Arlington and Bedlam in Bedford with Cuckoo's Nest.

  published May 14, 2009

  Take four or five of those deluded fame-seekers of American Idol's audition episodes—the lumpenproles in tutus and tiaras... More >>

• At the DCT, Stories of the Children Who Experienced the Holocaust Come Alive

  published May 7, 2009

  Too rare is the transcendent theater experience. Now there is one in And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne... More >>

• DTC’s Sarah, Plain and Tall is Stretched Too Long; As Thousands Cheer Deserves Your Applause.

  published April 30, 2009

  Calling the current production of the musical Sarah, Plain and Tall a "world premiere" is a stretch. But that's how Dallas... More >>

• At Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, The Cemetery Club has gallows humor in spades while WaterTower hits a false note with Totally True Story

  published April 23, 2009

  If it weren't for the fine quartet of older actresses in Contemporary Theatre of Dallas' current production of Ivan Menchell's The... More >>

• The History Boys earns top grades at Uptown Players

  published April 9, 2009

  The least important theme in Alan Bennett's wonderful play The History Boys is that a great teacher can also be a bad person.... More >>

• An actress going buck naked on stage doesn't give Closer the sexual chemistry it demands.

  published April 2, 2009

  The stripper alone should make Patrick Marber's play Closer a red-hot ticket. The character's name is Alice Ayres, and in a scene... More >>

• Back Back Back: Un-enhanced Performance with Too Many Errors

  published March 26, 2009

  Careers of baseball players and playwrights have more in common than you might think. Both professions have major and minor playing fields.... More >>

• Garland Civic Theatre's Beverly Hillbillies is Doggone Funny

  published March 19, 2009

  Old television shows never die; they stubbornly live on in cable reruns, DVD boxed sets, online and now as theatrical productions. Like popular... More >>

• Kitchen Dog Theater's Psychos Never Dream is a Comedy of Terrors

  published March 12, 2009

  Two shows in a row, Kitchen Dog Theater has picked plays about older men having carnal relations with animals. In Edward Albee's The... More >>

• When Scary Met Sally

  published February 26, 2009

  Goodbye, winter blues. Hello Human Female, springing from the wildly funny imagination of Texas playwright Matt Lyle, arrives as... More >>

• Getting to No | Eat Less Live Longer

  published February 26, 2009

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• The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife

  published February 19, 2009

  There’s not a single gay character onstage in the latest play by Sordid Lives writer Del Shores. But the forced estrangement from her... More >>

• Cheatin' Hearts At Uptown Players and Theatre Three, Straying Spouses Make for Easy Laughs

  published February 19, 2009

  Not a bad time to invest in an entertainment stimulus package. Two just-opened shows are pretty fair bets, paying off with a high percentage of... More >>

• Stay Hungry, Live Longer: the Science Behind the Calorie Restriction Diet

  published February 19, 2009

  In a windowless, climate-controlled chamber on the third floor of the Dedman Life Sciences building at Southern Methodist University, thousands... More >>

• Last Train to Nibroc Makes for a Subtle, Sentimental Journey

  published February 12, 2009

  A little bit of Walton's Mountain, a sprinkling of Horton Foote, a dash of Tennessee Williams and you're on Last Train to Nibroc,... More >>

• Say Amen.Somebody?

  published February 5, 2009

  In the beginning, there was the word. And it was the playwright's. And the actors said the word. And the audience watched and heard the word.... More >>

• WaterTower gets little musical mileage from a girl, a bus and a busted face in Violet.

  published January 22, 2009

  Violet Sherlock's Last Case Plenty of musicals tell the story of an ugly girl yearning to be pretty. My Fair Lady, Funny... More >>

• Boldly Going From Collin County Community College to SciFi's New Stargate Series

  published Jan 16, 2009

  The top story in today's Hollywood Reporter billboards the cast of the new Sci Fi Channel series Stargate Universe, third in the Stargate franchise. Starring opposite Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, T... More >>

• Uptown's Broadway Our Way Showcases Dallas Talent, and It's Anything but a Drag

  published January 15, 2009

  The annual evening of folderol known as Broadway Our Way started out several years ago at Uptown Players as a... More >>