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

• Actors in Uptown Players' The Temperamentals Add Heat to Tepid Script

  published Oct 21, 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 >>

• Spring Awakening Lets Young Talent Bloom at WaterTower Theatre

  published Oct 20, 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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  Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Making Sense of a New Glut of Reality Shows

  published Oct 19, 2011

  Back in the 1960s, there was a Milton Bradley board game called Mystery Date. Advertised during Saturday morning cartoons with a nifty jingle -- "Open the doooooor for yooooour mystery date" -- it was... More >>

• Temperamentals Opens Door on Gay Rights

  published October 20, 2011

  What would an Uptown Players production be without a naked man in it? Its core audience, gay middle-aged men who flock to Uptown's... More >>

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  The State Fair of Texas is a Living Museum of Pop Culture. Don't Take it For Granted.

  published Oct 13, 2011

  We take the State Fair of Texas for granted. Every fall it comes around, preceded by a few fluffy TV news pieces and food blogger posts about the latest fried snacks to bubble up from the grease. This... More >>

• Free Screening of Giant Tomorrow, Meanwhile...Casting in New York

  published Oct 12, 2011

  The new musical version of Edna Ferber's Giant, about a mid-century West Texas oil-and-ranch family, won't open at Dallas Theater Center until January. But to prime the pump, the theater, ATTPAC and t... More >>

• At WaterTower Theatre, a Spring Awakening Not Quite Awake Enough.

  published October 13, 2011

  For Spring Awakening to work its magic, it needs young performers who look hot, sing hotter and radiate sexuality with the heat... More >>

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  Season of Love for These Young Stars of WaterTower's Spring Awakening

  published Oct 11, 2011

  In a big cast of hot young actors, two of the stars of WaterTower Theatre's current production of Spring Awakening are sizzling standouts: Adam Garst, a 2010 Baylor theater grad in only his second rol... More >>

• Jeff Swearingen Embarks on Marathon of Mirth for a Good Cause

  published Oct 06, 2011

  If there's anyone we'd like to see be funny for a continuous 48 hours, it's Dallas actor and improv comic Jeff Swearingen. He's a funny guy on and off a stage, but especially on. And starting at 8 p.m... More >>

• Moody Dane Goes on Killing Spree (Including Poetry) in Shakespeare Dallas' Hamlet

  published Oct 04, 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 >>

• Gliddy Gloop Gloopy, This Tour of Hair Is Kinda Goofy

  published Sep 30, 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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  Where's the Beefr Where's the Verbr Something's Missing in New Ad Slogans

  published Sep 28, 2011

  "Life begins here." That's the current advertising slogan for a famous product many of us reach for every day. Can you guess which oner Take 10 seconds. Ready, go. Time's up. It's Coca Cola, the No. ... More >>

• Cooked Dane

  published September 29, 2011

  Outdoor theater offers scant opportunity for subtlety, but Dallas Shakespeare's current Hamlet, performed to audiences... More >>

• As Fashion Juxtaposition, Moto Boots and Cocktail Dress Say "Look, I'm On A Reality Show"

  published Sep 27, 2011

  At the Fashionistas event the other night at the Trinity River Audubon Center, the buzz wasn't about the clothes on the runway. It was about the blond in the audience rocking a sparkly tube-dress and ... More >>

• In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play Is all About The O-Face

  published Sep 26, 2011

  Playwright Sarah Ruhl knows how to construct plays. Focus tightly on a topic -- a crime, a scandal, some scurrilous bit of history. Then follow a Law & Order-style template of revelations and crises u... More >>

• Casting of Leads in DTC's A Christmas Carol Makes It a Tall Tale Indeed

  published Sep 23, 2011

  We've seen old Scrooges and fat Scrooges and bearded ones and bald-headed ones. Now for Dallas Theater Center's annual staging of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, we'll get to see a tall, good-look... More >>

• Shakespeare's The Tempest Rides Waves of Words at Dallas Theater Center

  published Sep 22, 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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  Another Starlet as Marilyn, and 11 Other Magazine Cover Tropes We're Tired Of

  published Sep 21, 2011

  Oh, no, not that again. But there she is, actress Michelle Williams on the cover of the October Vogue, trussed into a white gown and done up as Marilyn Monroe for an Annie Leibovitz photo shoot. Will... More >>

• DTC's Tempest Offers Magical Misery Tour

  published September 22, 2011

  Starting the fall theater season seeing Shakespeare is like being served a big dose of cod liver oil as an aperitif. The stuff is hard to... More >>

• On Tour At Winspear, Rock Musical Hair Still Hasn't Gone Gray

  published Sep 19, 2011

  The Age of Aquarius may have become the Age of Activia, but Hair, the anti-war "tribal-rock musical," somehow stays young. The 44-year-old show opens Tuesday, September 20, for a two-week run at the W... More >>

• Two More Days And Nights of Good Shows At Uptown's Dallas Pride Arts Fest

  published Sep 16, 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 >>

• Gypsy at Lyric Stage Bumps It With A Lot of Trumpets

  published Sep 15, 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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  No Job Shortage at The Office, Which Has Opened Branches Worldwide

  published Sep 15, 2011

  The Office is 10 years old. The first episode aired in the UK in the summer of 2001, assigned a 9:30 p.m. timeslot on a Monday because the BBC thought it was a loser. By the time it debuted on NBC in ... More >>

• DFW Critics Forum Honors Last Season's Class Acts

  published Sep 14, 2011

  The votes are in from the Dallas/Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum for the latest round of honors recognizing the best work on local stages big and small. The awards are decided at an annual potluck lu... More >>

• Gypsy Comes Up Roses

  published September 15, 2011

  A strong Patti LuPone vibe buzzes through Lyric Stage's Gypsy, running through September 18 at the Irving Arts Center, and... More >>