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

• It's a schlong way to Tipperary in Watertower's The Full Monty.

  published July 29, 2010

  The naked truth is, The Full Monty is a cock tease. You won't see the full anything in this gently ribald musical, now onstage at... More >>

• School's Out

  published July 22, 2010

  Billy Aronson had a cutesy idea for a sex farce. Take a couple of "helicopter parents" who blow off work on their kids' first day of school and... More >>

• Only Alice in Wonderland works wonders (so far) at this year's Festival of Independent Theatres.

  published July 22, 2010

  Going to the annual Festival of Independent Theatres is a bit like tumbling down Alice's rabbit hole. You jump in and hope for amusing... More >>

• This Year's Bath House FIT Fest Will Be Extra Cool. (The New Air-Conditioner Helps.)

  published Jul 16, 2010

  Each summer the Festival of Independent Theatres puts Dallas' hottest stage actors in a bunch of short one-act plays in rotating rep over four weekends. The 12th annual FIT fest, as it's redundantly n... More >>

• It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's the Reason Why Last Night's Superman Was Canceled

  published Jul 16, 2010

  Villain Max Mencken's tired vocal cords forced the cancellation of last night's performance of It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! at the Dallas Theater Center. Actor Patrick Cassidy, who pl... More >>

• Flaming Guns Is Cut-'em Up Comedy, But First Day of School Flunks As Sex Farce.

  published July 15, 2010

  By the time the ladies of Theatre Too's Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage start sawing up the body of a villainous Ukrainian... More >>

• The DTC Flies High

  published July 8, 2010

  A complete overhaul of the book of this 1966 Strouse-Adams musical has been achieved by comic book author and screenwriter Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.... More >>

• The Music Hall's Dreamgirls, With Its Big Voices and Big Spectacle, Is A Big Crowd Pleaser; Circle Theatre's Something Intangible Is Smaller But Just As Loud.

  published July 8, 2010

  Exploding with forced fabulosity, the national tour of Dreamgirls currently at the Music Hall at Fair Park lifts the 1981... More >>

• Craft Dallas Cooks Up Sweet Deal
  For Hungry Theatergoers

  published Jul 07, 2010

  Slow biz and showbiz make for a good dining deal at Craft Dallas at the W Hotel in Victory Park right now. With dinner service falling off during summer doldrums, the restaurant is offering a special ... More >>

• And She's Telling You...

  published July 1, 2010

  Just as this show's girl-group, The Dreams, get a makeover on their way to stardom, the show itself has received an overhaul by... More >>

• In The Dallas Theater Center's Super-fun Superman Musical, You Don't Need X-Ray Vision To See Deeper Themes.

  published July 1, 2010

  Yes, he flies. Superman, an American icon in blazing blue tights, red cape and sassy leather boots, soars into view and lands like a... More >>

• Barnyard Mutiny?

  published June 17, 2010

  The animals take over the barnyard in this musical comedy for kids at Dallas Children's Theater. But it doesn't become Animal Farm. The... More >>

• Gem of the Ocean

  published June 10, 2010

  Jubilee Theatre in Fort Worth stages a marvelous, if LOUD, production of this August Wilson play, the ninth in his 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle, but... More >>

• Kitchen Dog's Long Way Go Down Too Cinematic For Stage;Jubilee Sails With Gem Of The Ocean

  published June 10, 2010

  Fluids of all sorts have cameo roles in Zayd Dohrn's soggy new play, Long Way Go Down, getting its debut production in Kitchen... More >>

• The Dixie Swim Club

  published May 27, 2010

  Three writers from Asheville, North Carolina, came up with this 2008 mash-up of Steel Magnolias and Beaches, a comedy tinged with... More >>

• 100 Favorite Dishes: The Pad Pak at Bangkok City

  published Jun 03, 2010

  As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular... More >>

• Local Actress Liz Mikel Out-sings Every Musical In Town (Including Wicked and Avenue Q).

  published June 3, 2010

  The most moving of three musicals that have just opened on Dallas stages is the little one with no orchestra, only two characters and a... More >>

• Black Pearl Sings

  published May 27, 2010

  Dallas diva Liz Mikel gets a plum role as a 1930s ex-con who sings up a storm, all the way to New York high society. Based loosely on the story of... More >>

• Long Way Go Down

  published May 27, 2010

  Kitchen Dog Theater holds its annual New Works Festival with this new play by Zayd Dohrn as its central production. Set in a dirty Phoenix... More >>

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  100 Favorite Dishes: Sliders at Dish at the Illume

  published May 26, 2010

  As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular... More >>

• Pocket Sandwich Theatre's Dixie Swim Club Stays Afloat On A Sea Of Sentiment And Snappy Lines

  published May 27, 2010

  "I never knew what true happiness was till I got married. By then it was too late." Good line. And if you didn't know you were watching... More >>

• 100 Favorite Dishes: Summer Platter For Two at Big Shucks

  published May 20, 2010

  As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particula... More >>

• Little House Musical A Bit Unsettling; Big Hand For Puppet Carnival

  published May 20, 2010

  Scarlet fever, blindness, a blizzard and a crop-killing fire hit the Ingalls family in Little House on the Prairie, The Musical.... More >>

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  City of Ate's 100 Favorite Dishes: #95 Flatbread Pizza at Dish

  published May 17, 2010

  As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particula... More >>

• DCT's Most Valuable Player Swings For The Fences; T3 Tunes UP [title of show]; One Thirty Productions Presents Its Favorite Austin Playwright

  published May 13, 2010

  Nine innings of baseball can go three hours easy, so it's remarkable that Most Valuable Player, a play about Jackie Robinson's... More >>