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

• Moby-Dick Rides Opera's New Wave; DTC's Salesman Has The Goods

  published May 6, 2010

  Dallas Opera's triumphant world premiere of Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick is so un-opera in the traditional sense that it's... More >>

• Uptown's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Plays Naughty Con Games; PFamily Arts Theatre's I Do! I Do! Doesn't

  published April 29, 2010

  "Give Them What They Want" is the first number in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and the current entertainment model of Uptown... More >>

• Screen Door: If Mama Cooked This Good, We'd A-Stayed Home

  published April 29, 2010

  Before you take the first bite of Screen Door's tasso ham soup, pause a moment to listen. This soup talks to you. It's a lady with a... More >>

• At DTC, Many Reasons to See pretty; DSM's Xanadu Exudes Strange Magic; Theatre Arlington's Spelling Bee, a Winner

  published April 15, 2010

  The pretty girl gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop in reasons to be pretty, the third and last installment in Dallas Theater... More >>

• A Long-Lost Twain Comedy Comes to Life in Addison, and T2 Burps Up an AA Play

  published April 8, 2010

  Funny how these dead writers keep coughing up new plays. Shakespeare's got one, Cardenio, confirmed by British scholars earlier this... More >>

• Spring Awakening Puts Teen Angst to a Driving Rock Beat and Lets It Go Buck Wild.

  published April 1, 2010

  Nothing depicts teenagers' lives with less authenticity than the typical musical about teenagers' lives. Think about the kids in shows like... More >>

• Ocean Prime -- So Fancy, They Should Put Goldfish on the Menu

  published April 1, 2010

  On a day when you're feeling all up in your fine self, when your wrinkle-fillers have smoothed out the frown lines and your good car is out of... More >>

• In subUrbia, Angst and Nihilism at 7-Eleven; In Fat Pig, Love Comes Super-Sized

  published March 25, 2010

  Meet the burnouts of Burnfield, USA. The young adults of Eric Bogosian's play subUrbia, now being done by Upstart... More >>

• Death Lite: Two Shows at the Bath House Dare to Laugh in the Face of the Grim Reaper

  published March 18, 2010

  A slab of Velveeta with Miracle Whip on a slice of white bread. For 90-year-old Grace, that's a happy meal. That's also a pretty accurate... More >>

• Tramontana: A Restaurant Made for Grandma

  published March 11, 2010

  This ain't your mother's bistro. No, it's your grandmother's. And if you visit Tramontana of an evening, though not too long past the... More >>

• Shape of Things Gives DTC its First Neil Labute; Watertower's Loop Fest Offers Eclectic Lineup of Shows

  published March 11, 2010

  Neil LaBute and Nora Ephron. Now there's a cage match waiting to happen. LaBute, the reigning American writer of terse stage and screen... More >>

• Uptown Players' Revival of Equus a Rough Ride: Circle Theatre's Opus Goes Full Gallop

  published March 4, 2010

  When Equus, a 1974 play by Peter Shaffer, returned to Broadway in 2008 after a successful revival in London, the sensation... More >>

• Stage West's Copenhagen Makes Physics Into Fizzy Drama; CTD Stages A Sassy Sisters Rosensweig

  published February 25, 2010

  Theater provides its own version of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. By observing an actor in performance, we, the audience, unwittingly... More >>

• Charmageddon

  published February 18, 2010

  Where would you rather be at the end of the world? In an underground bunker with a nervous gay biologist and not quite enough food? Or in a... More >>

• DISH Suffers From a Lack of Focus on Getting the Food Right

  published February 11, 2010

  The egg must not be cold. Here we are in Oak Lawn's dishiest new restaurant, DISH (the insistent capital letters an attempt to... More >>

• Richardson Theatre Centre And Onstage in Bedford Present More Jewish Comedy Than You Can Shake A Shiksa At

  published February 4, 2010

  Sometimes the sweet nobility of a heartfelt community theater production can make its flaws forgivable. At all-volunteer playhouses such as... More >>

• The Dallas Theater Center's World Premiere, Give It Up! Asks The Audience To Give Up More Than Two And A Half Hours To Its Redbull-buzzed Idiocy

  published January 28, 2010

  Legally Blonde meets Glee meets Xanadu in Dallas Theater Center's latest, the world premiere of the hyperactive... More >>

• Winspear's August:Ossage County And Watertower's Laughter On The 23rd Floor Find Fun And Fury In Tempers Run Amok

  published January 21, 2010

  "This situation is fraught." It is, it is, it is. August: Osage County, the Steppenwolf production finishing its two-week run at... More >>

• Pocket Sandwich Theatre's Fangs For The Memories Revives A Biting Comedy; Artisan's Swing! Falls Flat

  published January 14, 2010

  Nobody ever accused Pocket Sandwich Theatre of being too sophisticated. Tucked into the corner of a shopping strip across from... More >>

• Pegasus Theatre's Death Express! A Black And White Bust; Amy's View Just A Bad (David) Hare Day

  published January 7, 2010

  The most exciting moment in a show done by Pegasus Theatre is that first glimpse of the set and actors as the curtain goes up. Performed... More >>