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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2010 Stories by Elaine Liner

• Murder Was The Case

  published December 30, 2010

  Pegasus Theatre makes the fans of its "Living Black and White" comedies wait a year for a new show. This new one bears evidence that... More >>

• Moby-Dick tops our list of 2010's best on DFW stages

  published December 30, 2010

  Funny how the little moments in some plays stay with you. An actor wiping a tear from his cheek in a quiet scene in Our Town. That same... More >>

• Mark Hadley, after 10 years as the Dallas Theater Center's managing director, steps into a different stage of his career

  published December 23, 2010

  For the past few months at Dallas Theater Center, Mark Hadley was forgotten but not gone. He announced last July that after 10 years as... More >>

• Theatre Three's musical The Drowsy Chaperone could use a lot more caffeine.

  published December 16, 2010

  "I hate theater," a whiny voice in the dark says at the tippy-top of The Drowsy Chaperone. "Well, it's so disappointing,... More >>

• Christmas Fare on Dallas Stages Fares Well Despite the Been There, Done That.

  published December 9, 2010

  You can't swing an elf without hitting a Christmas-themed play or musical in Dallas theaters this week. And for swinging elves, there's... More >>

• Kitchen Dog's Tina Parker puts the shine on Charm; gods are not great at Theatre Too's Tales From Mount Olympus.

  published November 25, 2010

  The leading role in Kitchen Dog Theater's Charm fits actress Tina Parker like a velvet glove. But the character she plays,... More >>

• Dallas Theater Center's world premiere "Trinity River" trilogy runs long and dry.

  published November 18, 2010

  Except for the title and some dropped-in references to Parkland Hospital, Neiman Marcus and the long-gone H.L. Green downtown five-and-dime,... More >>

• A Certain Type of Charm

  published November 11, 2010

  Kathleen Cahill's dreamy comedy, Charm, gets a sweet production at Kitchen Dog Theater. Tina Parker stars as Margaret Fuller, a real-life... More >>

• The other six MasterMinds Awards finalists are so good, the tough part was picking only three winners.

  published November 11, 2010

  Frank Campagna Many a young artist's career has been launched from the walls of Frank Campagna's... More >>

• MasterMinds: Matthew Posey, Joel Hester and Karen Blessen Are Winners in Our Inaugural Creativity Awards

  published November 11, 2010

  Artists will make art even if they don't make money. With a few dollars, however, they can make more art, bigger art and even take some time to... More >>

• At WaterTower and Amphibian Stage, two plays about drama teachers deserve big fat A's.

  published November 11, 2010

  "Play should make you understand something new," says a character in Nilaja Sun's brief, beautiful play, No Child. Good plays can... More >>

• Dallas Observer Names Nine Dallas Artists as Finalists in Its First Annual Masterminds Award

  published November 4, 2010

  Times are tough all around, and especially for artists. Grant money is scarce and patron support isn't what it was during boom... More >>

• Only mystery in new musical The Night of the Hunter is why Lyric Stage is doing it at all.

  published November 4, 2010

  Every night of live theater is an adventure. When things go right, it's a thrill ride. When things go wrong, as they did at the final preview... More >>

• Murder, they typed at the Margo Jones; The Dog Problem's got problems at Undermain; and how to succeed in preschool at Circle Theater

  published October 28, 2010

  What are you up for? A play about a guy who shoots a dog? A play about yuppie parents who poison a lady with pesto? How about a comedy with... More >>

• WingSpan Theatre Entertains With Absurd Albee One-Acts; Theatre Three Plods Through 33 Variations

  published October 14, 2010

  The Edward Albee one-acts that WingSpan Theatre Company is doing right now taste as bitter and icy as dry martinis. The American... More >>

• Shrek stinks up Fair Park; In Closer to Heaven the devil's in the deets.

  published October 7, 2010

  A farting contest in the middle of Shrek the Musical turns out to be one of its classiest moments. The competition takes place... More >>

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  Adam Carolla Makes Time for Pie... Between Rants

  published Oct 01, 2010

  There are cake people and pie people. Adam Carolla, headlining a special two-night event at the Addison Improv Tuesday and Wednesday (October 5-6), is a confirmed pie man. More about that in a minute... More >>

• Drink Up, You Cheap Winos

  published Sep 30, 2010

  You've heard of Two Buck Chuckr How about three-buck Winkr The $2.99 Winking Owl Merlot is found exclusively at Aldi, the deep discount grocery store. Bottled by Gallo, it's a thoroughly respectable ... More >>

• Into The Madness

  published September 30, 2010

  Moises Kaufman, who wrote The Laramie Project, is the author of this drama (a vehicle earlier this year for Jane Fonda on Broadway) about a... More >>

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  Soup's on at the Green House Lunch Truck

  published Sep 29, 2010

  If you're not Tweetin', you're not in on the eatin' from the The Green House Truck. Every day the gourmet grub lunch truck tweets out highlights of the day's menu. This week, with the air feeling cris... More >>

• WaterTower Theatre's Stunning Our Town Reveals Timeless Truths, Raw Emotions

  published September 30, 2010

  A full moon bathes a window in sugary white. A train whistles. Bacon curls in a skillet. These simple sensory references are part of everyday... More >>

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  Eat Cheese Fries for a Good Cause

  published Sep 24, 2010

  At last, a way to feel virtuous while stuffing your gullet with chili cheese fries and "Triple Dippers" at Chili's restaurants. On Monday, September 27, the 25-year-old burger chain will donate 100 pe... More >>

• A Better Way to Get Juiced

  published Sep 23, 2010

  Lalani Amin makes juice. Lots of juice. Fresh juice from Louisiana-grown sugarcane mixed with fresh-squeezed lime and kiwi, a cold, green kiss of a juice that tastes just sweet enough to be a treat in... More >>

• Mean Green Musical

  published September 23, 2010

  In moving the hit film to the stage, with dozens of show tunes, the edgy humor of the DreamWorks flicks gets lost in a mountain of in-jokes about... More >>

• Whose Town?

  published September 23, 2010

  Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer winner from 1938 is on few critics' lists of plays they'd love to see again. It's usually done with heavy doses of... More >>