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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2011 Stories by Elaine Liner

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  Cue the Confetti: Movies' 12 Greatest New Year's Eve Scenes

  published Dec 30, 2011

  Should auld acquaintance be forgot - or if you forgot to make plans for the evening -- don't forget that there are lots of cinema New Year's Eve scenes worth celebrating. Pop a cork and ring in the Ne... More >>

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  Les Miz, Loud and Long, Remains Master of the Opera House

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Next year we'll have the big-budget movie starring Hugh Jackman (as Jean Valjean) and Russell Crowe (as Javert) to compare it to, but right now you can see what critics and audiences are loving in the... More >>

• Les Miz, Oui; La Bete, Non

  published December 29, 2011

  It's called Les Misérables, so don't expect comedy. You don't look to Victor Hugo's depiction of the 1832 Paris uprisings... More >>

• From Lake Highlands, Actor Jim Crump Paints a Living Portrait of Artist Charlie Russell

  published Dec 27, 2011

  In his backyard studio, behind a house packed to the rafters with books, photos, sculpture and paintings, Dallas actor-writer James Crump, 65, has re-created the world of early 20th century Western ar... More >>

• In Pop Culture, Music and Fashion, Is Boring the New Excitingr

  published Dec 22, 2011

  A few weeks ago a photograph titled "Rhein II" (above) by artist Andreas Gursky was won at auction at Christie's in New York by an anonymous bidder who paid more than $4 million. It is a digital photo... More >>

• Dallas Theater in 2011: Give it a Standing O

  published December 22, 2011

  The real world beyond their stage doors may have been spinning from disaster to disaster, but somehow in the land of make-believe inside Dallas... More >>

• Betty White, 90, Gets a Tribute - And a New Show That's like Punk'd with Grandma

  published Dec 20, 2011

  The greatest old broad on TV, Betty White, doesn't just outlive her contemporaries; she outworks them, too. She's about to turn 90 and will celebrate with a TV special, Betty White's 90th Birthday: A ... More >>

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  DTC Spins a Great Ghost Story in Its Lavish Staging of A Christmas Carol

  published Dec 20, 2011

  You have until Christmas Eve to catch Dallas Theater Center's robust production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. For this one, the company moves back to its old home at Kalita Humphreys Theater ... More >>

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  Snooki Smells Like Kiwi, Cupcakes and the Future of All Mankind

  published Dec 19, 2011

  Outside, standing toward the back of a line of 500 or so fans of the MTV reality show Jersey Shore, Janessa Salas, 12, and her mother Stacey were super excited about getting VIP tickets to meet Snooki... More >>

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  Brad, Brad World's Brad Goreski on Styling at the Golden Globes, His Fashion Icons

  published Dec 15, 2011

  He survived schlepping Fed Ex boxes for Hollywood fashion stylist Rachel "It's bananas" Zoe, and now Brad Goreski will star in his own cable TV "docu series,"It's a Brad, Brad World. Premiering at 9 p... More >>

• Pegasus Theatre Returns in Glorious Black and White

  published December 15, 2011

  There's something to be said for seeing the world in shades of gray. For 26 years that's been the philosophy of Dallas' Pegasus Theatre, which... More >>

• With Greetings! the Bath House Stage Is Flooded with New Age Ideas

  published Dec 13, 2011

  Given that their core audience comes on buses from places where risk-taking might mean eating dinner past 5, One Thirty Productions is surprisingly edgy with the choice of Greetings! as a Christmas se... More >>

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  The Best Pop Culture Moments of 2011 in Shorthand (Part Two)

  published Dec 13, 2011

  Let's shorthand it, shall wer Because in Twitterworld, who needs complete sentencesr U w/me, pplr -Birds are angry. -Alec Baldwin is angry. He plays Words with Friends. (He has friendsr) -Be angry... More >>

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  Dick Whittington: Bawdy Fun with a Classic English Panto

  published Dec 12, 2011

  If you haven't experienced the wacky tradition of the holiday season English "panto," get yourself to Theatre Britain's production of Jackie Mellor-Guin's Dick Whittington, currently onstage at Plano'... More >>

• Pegasus Theatre Puts It Out There in Black and White

  published Dec 09, 2011

  There's something to be said for seeing the world in shades of gray. For 26 years that's been the philosophy of Dallas' Pegasus Theatre, which performs its annual murder mystery comedy in trademarked ... More >>

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  The Pop Culture Moments of 2011 in Shorthand (Part One)

  published Dec 08, 2011

  Let's shorthand it, shall wer Because in Twitterworld, who needs complete sentencesr U w/me, pplr -January 2011. Eleven lifetimes ago. Hop-skip through year's tops and flops in pop culture. -Golden ... More >>

• Wassail out the Wahzoo with Three Holiday Plays

  published December 8, 2011

  Like Ebenezer Scrooge, a certain rotund, snow-haired, thrice-married GOP presidential candidate regards poor children as slackers. "It is... More >>

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  WaterTower's Rockin' Christmas Party Deserves a Big Lump of Coal

  published Dec 07, 2011

  If you remember flopping on the divan in your flannels and scuffies to watch TV Christmas specials starring Perry Como, the King Sisters and the Osmonds back in the day, you'll feel right at home at W... More >>

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  Coming Full Circle, Second Thought Theatre Returns to Turtle Creek

  published Dec 06, 2011

  For its eighth season, Second Thought Theatre, the small-ensemble company founded by Baylor grads, will move back to where it started -- or close to it. Second Thought is leaving the Addison Theatre C... More >>

• Puppet Theater's Sweet Nutcracker Deserves a Big Hand

  published Dec 02, 2011

  Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder -- or a teaser, if you procrastinate -- of her full-length reviews in The Mixm... More >>

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  Here, from Christmases Future, DTC's "Ghost" Speaks

  published Dec 01, 2011

  Part of the fun of Dallas Theater Center's huge production of A Christmas Carol, opening Friday night for a three-week run at Kalita Humphreys Theater, is seeing who plays the ghosts that visit Ebenez... More >>

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  A Look Back at 11 Crazy-Great Holiday TV Moments

  published Nov 30, 2011

  T'was the night(s) before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring 'cept you and your mouse. Click, click, click to these 11 merry moments of TV Christmas specials past -- some... More >>

• Rockin' Christmas Party: Not Rockin', Not a Party, Not Christmas-y

  published December 1, 2011

  The title of WaterTower Theatre's revival of Rockin' Christmas Party is missing its "g" for a reason. Throughout the... More >>

• A Gathering Gathers Momentum at Rehearsal

  published Nov 29, 2011

  If the run-through Monday night is any indication of the breadth of talent taking part in the December 6 benefit event called A Gathering, the real thing is going to be quite a show. In the ninth flo... More >>

• Open Stage Talent Showcase Keeps It Playful, Positive

  published Nov 25, 2011

  At the Monday night Open Stage talent show in Richardson, the emcee, Russ Sharek, shows the audience the "Positivity Pill." It's a stuffed toy shaped like a capsule and it's tossed at anyone who doesn... More >>