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

• Open Stage Showcases the Power of Positive Thinking

  published November 24, 2011

  It's a quarter to 8 on a Monday night at Open Stage, the weekly talent showcase at House of Poets in Richardson, and the incense... More >>

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  Deck the Halls and Stages with Fa-la-lots of Holiday Shows

  published Nov 23, 2011

  If you have to use "the Method" to act excited about seeing in-laws at your holiday gatherings, you have something in common with all the actors in Scrooge and Santa drag night after night from now ti... More >>

• Brother-sister Team Try to Plant Interest in Theater in The Colony

  published Nov 21, 2011

  Tish Mussey and her brother Martin grew up as army brats, moving frequently and learning that their shared love of theater gave them an identity and something to do together wherever they were. When t... More >>

• Kitchen Dog Theater Goes 26 Miles in New Road-Trip Play

  published Nov 18, 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 >>

• Love and Lyrics Fill the Air in It's Only Life at Theatre Too

  published Nov 17, 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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  Costas's Tough Interview with Sandusky Reveals Current Malaise in TV Q&A's

  published Nov 16, 2011

  Watching Bob Costas interrogate the unseen, unrepentant Penn State shower jockey Jerry Sandusky on NBC's Rock Center Monday night -- and then in replay every hour since -- was a worthwhile reminder of... More >>

• It's Only Life Sends a Singing November Valentine

  published November 17, 2011

  November is early for valentines, but at Theatre Too love is in the air with It's Only Life, a 30-song revue by composer... More >>

• Off with Their Heads and on with the Show in On the Eve

  published Nov 15, 2011

  The new rock-and-roll musical is called On the Eve. Actor Michael Federico wrote it with his friends Seth and Shawn Magill, the husband-and-wife team who head up East Dallas band Home by Hovercraft. I... More >>

• Pay a Little, Enjoy a Lot of Drama Tonight at Ochre House's Frida Kahlo Play, Ex Voto

  published Nov 14, 2011

  Have a buckr You could see a play tonight. And a good one at that. The Ochre House theater, Matthew Posey's hothouse of experimental work, is doing a pay-what-you-can performance of its latest, Ex Vo... More >>

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  Three New Fall Shows Reach for Fairy Tales, Hoping for Happy-Ever-After Ratings

  published Nov 10, 2011

  Once upon a time, there were fewer TV channels but better TV shows. Now there are many, many TV channels, but a narrower range of attractive choices. You get many hours of Kardashians and many more ho... More >>

• Elizabeth Evans: Frida Be Who She Wants to Be

  published Nov 09, 2011

  With her dark unibrow and shadow of upper lip fuzz, Dallas actress Elizabeth Evans looks eerily like the title character in the Ochre House's latest production, Ex Voto: The Immaculate Conceptions of ... More >>

• Eyebrow Drama

  published November 10, 2011

  Seeing any show at Matthew Posey's 40-seat Ochre House is a bit like watching a circus unfold in a walk-in closet. So much happens in so... More >>

• DFW Stage Talent Give It the Old Holidazzle on Charity CD

  published Nov 08, 2011

  Get a bunch of local musical theater stars together and there will be singing. Plus some gratuitous kissy-face, lots of hugs and a little gossip about who's got what role where. Monday night at Kalit... More >>

• In a Glorious Revival, Lyric Stage's Rags Is Dressed for Success

  published Nov 03, 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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  Listen Closely: After More Layoffs, Radio Just Got a Lot Less Local

  published Nov 02, 2011

  Driving through Arkansas not long ago, I turned on the radio and scanned for local stations talking about anything but rightwing politics or Jesus. It was early on a Saturday morning and I stopped on ... More >>

• Dallas Theater Center Presents a Muted, Miscast To Kill a Mockingbird

  published Nov 02, 2011

  The smaller roles and the actors who play them are the reasons to see To Kill a Mockingbird, now playing at the Wyly Theatre in a Dallas Theater Center production. Anastasia Munoz, playing both the ju... More >>

• The Riches of Rags

  published November 3, 2011

  There is a fiddler and there is a roof in Rags, the 1986 musical getting a splendid revival at Irving's Lyric Stage. But... More >>

• Theatre Three Serves Sally Soldo a Good Role in Catered Affair

  published Oct 31, 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 >>

• This Week in Vintage and Thrift Store Death and Devil Paintings

  published Oct 31, 2011

  Need new decor for your covenr Something to camouflage the bloodstains on the basement wallr Local thrift and vintage stores are well stocked with affordable, terrifying pieces of art depicting death'... More >>

• Bad Dates Offers a Good Time at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas

  published Oct 28, 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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  Did Steve Jobs Leave Behind Designs for a Smarter Idiot Boxr

  published Oct 27, 2011

  One of the last things Steve Jobs was working on, before he died October 5, was television. He told biographer Walter Isaacson about it and a few details are included in the just-published book Steve ... More >>

• Theresa Rebeck hits high note in solo comedy; Theatre Three musical falls flat.

  published October 27, 2011

  Two good Dallas actresses are getting their due in a pair of shows obsessed with courtship, marriage and the whole damn thing called love. One... More >>

• In DTC's To Kill a Mockingbird, This Young Actor's High in the Pecking Order

  published Oct 25, 2011

  Dallas actor and painter Aidan Langford rolls like a rock star. He has a driver to chauffeur him to and from the theaters where he's performing. His agent is busy fielding offers for acting and modeli... More >>

• Wanted: Playwrights. Now's the Time to Finish That Script

  published Oct 21, 2011

  Have a hot idea for a playr Start typing. Deadlines are fast approaching for several local playwriting competitions and not a few national ones. Scripts as short as 10 minutes are wanted by some conte... More >>

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  Halloween Yard Art Tricks Out Our Streets

  published Oct 21, 2011

  There are ghosties in the treezies all over town. Halloween yard decorations are adding spookily Goth touches to lawns, especially in Highland Park, where not a few elegant mansions are under attack... More >>