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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2012 Stories by Elaine Liner

• The Divine Sister is Charming the Kalita Humphreys Theater for One More Week

  published Jul 23, 2012

  See also: Second Thought's Bomb-itty of Errors Playwright Charles Busch always plays the leading lady in his en travisti comedies on a New York stage. But Dallas actor Coy Covington is so close to Bu... More >>

• How Michael Morpurgo's War Horse Went from Failure to Broadway to Movie Screens to the Winspear

  published Jul 23, 2012

  There used to be a family joke in the Morpurgo farmhouse in Devon, England. Whenever the phone would ring at odd hours or during a meal, dad Michael, author of more than 100 children's books, or his w... More >>

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  Second Thought's Bomb-itty of Errors: Big on Errors, Light on Laughs

  published Jul 20, 2012

  Dromio and Antipholus of Ephesus have long-lost identical twin brothers named Dromio and Antipholus (they live in Syracuse). The two sets of servants and masters collide in Shakespeare's The Comedy of... More >>

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  Dallas' Five Best Wig Shops

  published Jul 20, 2012

  Find more of DFW's best in our Best Of app, available for the iPhone and Droid. Like taking a new car for a test drive, sometimes it's fun to try on a different head to see what you'll look like befo... More >>

• Bowing at the Feet at of Uptown Players' Divine Sister, Plus a Breakdown of Bath House's FIT

  published July 19, 2012

  Shout hallelujah! Come on, get happy! Coy Covington is back in a Charles Busch comedy at Uptown Players at the Kalita Humphreys... More >>

• Theatre Too's Avenue Q Has Sold So Well It's Extending its Run into September

  published Jul 17, 2012

  The puppets have found their people. Theatre Too's local debut of the musical Avenue Q is such a hit, the run has been extended an additional six weeks. Since it opened earlier this month, every perfo... More >>

• Will.He.Is

  published July 5, 2012

  They’re identical twins! Who don’t know each other! Comedy! Second Thought Theatre winds up its eighth season with The Bomb-itty... More >>

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  The Festival of Indie Theatres Starts Tonight. Here's Your Survival Guide.

  published Jul 13, 2012

  Find more theater events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. The monthlong Festival of Independent Theatres, redundantly nicknamed FITfest, opens at the Bath House Cultural Center this weekend. Eight pla... More >>

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  Broadway Vet Brent Barrett, Star of the Music Hall's Peter Pan, on Life as an Actor's Actor

  published Jul 13, 2012

  Find more theater events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Brent Barrett has played almost every great Broadway musical leading man role either in New York or on national tours: Tony in West Side Story... More >>

• A Sunny Day on Avenue Q at T2, Bomb-itty Riddled with Errors at Second Thought and Orton's Last Farce at Stage West is Flaccid

  published July 12, 2012

  What do you do with a B.A. in English? Learn to make lattes? Live with your folks? Or buckle down and create something fresh, funny and smart... More >>

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  The 10 Sexiest Actors and Actresses Heating Up DFW Stages

  published Jul 09, 2012

  No doubt about it, getting gorgeous actors into Bible-based musicals and Shakespearean tragedies definitely ratchets up the "let's go see it" factor. Right now Dallas/Fort Worth stages have a bumper s... More >>

• Twelfth Night Makes Outdoor Shakes A Breeze

  published Jul 05, 2012

  Quick, while temps have dipped slightly below heatstroke levels, make plans to catch Shakespeare Dallas' Twelfth Night at Samuell-Grand Amphitheater. You can take a picnic or sack of snacks with you. ... More >>

• Crimes Of The Heart Commits Comedy Misdemeanors

  published Jul 05, 2012

  Playwright and SMU grad Beth Henley won a Pulitzer for her 1981 Southern gothic comedy Crimes of the Heart. Interesting to note that the 1981 Pulitzer for fiction went to John Kennedy Toole's A Confed... More >>

• DTC Sews Up Its Season with Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

  published July 5, 2012

  Among things you can see in Dallas Theater Center's production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing... More >>

• Rene Moreno: The Tough Director

  published Jul 02, 2012

  In this week's Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issu... More >>

• Natalie Young: The Showstopper

  published Jun 29, 2012

  In this week's Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issu... More >>

• Shakespeare Dallas Brings The Heat To Coriolanus

  published Jun 28, 2012

  Leave it to director Rene Moreno (profiled in this week's "People" issue) to find a way to make Coriolanus hot. For Shakespeare Dallas' first production of this rarely done bit of Bard, Moreno cast t... More >>

• Too Good To Be Truer Gotta Love Jersey Boys

  published Jun 28, 2012

  The audience-goes-crazy moments are cleverly written into the book of Jersey Boys, the long-running hit Broadway musical on view at the Winspear for three more weekends. Frankie Valli and his three pa... More >>

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  Learn This Dance, Become Famous.

  published Jun 27, 2012

  Kent, you lost me at "and four." Do you think you can dancer Do want to "co-star" in Dallas Theater Center's just-opened production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Wyly Theatre... More >>

• Coriolanus, Twelfth Night Heat Up Under the Stars; Jersey Boys Brings the Cool Again

  published June 28, 2012

  A flood of flawed heroes! An abundance of bounders and bastards! A cavalcade of troubled characters has arrived on summer's... More >>

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  Tap Dancing Video: Dallas' Dance Duo Rhythmic Souls

  published Jun 26, 2012

  There aren't that many young dancers anymore who cite the elegant 1930s Broadway and movie stars the Nicholas Brothers as inspirations. Or who even know who one-legged tap dancer Clayton "Peg Leg" Bat... More >>

• American History Rocks in Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson

  published Jun 22, 2012

  Dallas actor Cameron Cobb played Hamlet in 100-degree heat in Samuell-Grand Park last summer for Shakespeare Dallas. He portrayed numerous roles, male and female, in Kitchen Dog's excellent two-hander... More >>

• You Cain't Say No To Lyric Stage's Oklahoma!

  published Jun 21, 2012

  Nobody does big American musicals like Lyric Stage, the Irving theater company that does only musicals and only in the biggest way possible. Their season-ender, Rodgers and Hammerstein's 70-year-old c... More >>

• Betty Buckley's Students Fill The Modern With Music, Tonight

  published Jun 20, 2012

  "It's my responsibility to pass on what I know," says Tony-winning singer and actress Betty Buckley. The Fort Worth native pays it forward artistically with her series of Song Interpretation and Monol... More >>

• How the West is Sung

  published June 21, 2012

  The singing, dancing cowboys in Lyric Stage's Oklahoma! compete for your attention this week with the singing, dancing seventh... More >>