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

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  Modern Family, American Idiot, Jersey Boys: Busy Arts District Brings Big Shows to Winspear, Wyly

  published Apr 20, 2012

  ATTPAC is packing the spring and summer show skedge with enormo productions and gigundo names. Love the guys on Modern Familyr Got 'em. Craving some Gipsy Kingsr Coming. Jersey Boysr Oh, baby (in fou... More >>

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  Project X Theatre Stages a Dramatic Jewel with Diamond Dick

  published Apr 19, 2012

  The incident at the heart of the fact-based Erik Ehn play Diamond Dick: The Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 is as trivial as, say, a teenager walking home from a corner store with some Skittles in his hand. ... More >>

• Theatre Three Makes Muddled Mystery of The Art of Murder; Project X Hones Powerful Diamond Dick

  published April 19, 2012

  There's only one mystery in Theatre Three's latest, The Art of Murder, and that is how it ever made it onto a professional... More >>

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  Gird Your Loins for August: Osage County, Now In Its Farewell Week

  published Apr 17, 2012

  There may not be another 3-1/2-hour play that says as much about contemporary family life, and says it with such gritty realism, as Tracy Letts' explosive, hilarious August: Osage County. Director Ren... More >>

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  14 Things Close to George Hamilton's Tan on the Color Wheel

  published Apr 12, 2012

  George Hamilton is in town. You can tell the actor is somewhere near the Fair Park area by the faint orangey glow emanating from the stage at the Music Hall, where Hamilton is appearing in the touring... More >>

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  Turn of the Screw Drivers: Two Actors, One Staircase, Many Ghosts with British Accents

  published Apr 11, 2012

  Actors Jenny Ledel and Cameron Cobb have experience with ghosts. In last summer's Hamlet at Shakespeare Dallas, they played Ophelia and the moody Dane in an especially dark take on the Bard's dance wi... More >>

• A Funny, Furious Family Reunion from Hell in August: Osage County.

  published April 12, 2012

  The wild and wonderful Westons of Oklahoma are back. Think your family's crazy? This bunch thrives on hard liquor and invective. As the... More >>

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  Say Hey to the New Guy Performing The A-Gays: Stillwater, Oklahoma at Fair Park

  published Apr 05, 2012

  Nouveau 47 Theatre at the Magnolia Lounge in Fair Park is building a reputation as a developer of interesting new plays. Their new works festival is coming up soon and they like to foster relationship... More >>

• Ghosts Haunt Kitchen Dog's Turn of the Screw; at Nouveau 47, A-Gays Tells a Funny Coming-Out Story.

  published April 5, 2012

  A creepy mansion crawling with unhappy ghosts is the setting of Henry James' spooky 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw, now... More >>

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  The Vagina Dialogues: An Afternoon of Craftivism Marks the Beginning of Uterine Spring

  published Apr 02, 2012

  The ladies around the tables in actress Lulu Ward's converted garage in Garland were talking serious politics as they pieced together pretty scraps of fabric Sunday afternoon. Shiny bits of pink satin... More >>

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  Tracy Letts' Plays, Large and Small, Fill Dallas Theaters with Characters in Stages of Crisis

  published Mar 30, 2012

  On Monday night, April 2, WaterTower Theatre opens the first local production of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer- and Tony-winning masterpiece, August: Osage County. The sprawling drama has been compared with O... More >>

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  The Midwest Trilogy: A Visit to Corporate America, with a Side Trip to Enlightenment

  published Mar 29, 2012

  They'll make you wear a nametag at Bryant Hall, set up like a hotel conference room for Second Thought Theatre's mixed-media production of Dallas playwright Eric Steele's The Midwest Trilogy. There's ... More >>

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  DTC Announces a "Fly" Season with Peter Pan and Dracula; Lexus Broadway Series Trots Out War Horse

  published Mar 29, 2012

  Dallas Theater Center and the Lexus Broadway Series at the Winspear have announced their 2012-'13 seasons. Big doin's at two big venues for plays and musicals. Get ready for new takes on Peter Pan and... More >>

• Superior Donuts Takes the Cake; Midwest Trilogy Mixes Media Mighty Well.

  published March 29, 2012

  All rise for Superior Donuts. Tracy Letts' funny little play about lonely people has brought light and laughter (and the scent of... More >>

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  Eat, Screw, Love: 50 Shades of Grey Is "Mommy Porn" You Don't Have to Hide

  published Mar 22, 2012

  Let's talk about 50 Shades of Grey. Everyone else is. And by "everyone," I mean middle-aged ladies getting re-blonded in the nicer salons of Manhattan's Upper East Side (according to a friend who twee... More >>

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  A Yearbook Moment: Broadway's Biggest Stars Rehearse On Woodrow Wilson High School's Stage.

  published Mar 22, 2012

  Students at Woodrow Wilson High School in East Dallas performed the musical Les Miserables in 2005. On Wednesday afternoon, the creators of that long-running Broadway hit, lyricist Alain Boublil and c... More >>

• Uptown Players Do It Their Way; In the Heights Hits the Skids

  published March 22, 2012

  Uptown Players, take a bow. Ten years ago this gay-focused theater company, started by executive producers Craig Lynch and Jeff Rane, put on... More >>

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  This Just In: April's Go West Fest Wants to Draw Attention to the Arts across the River

  published Mar 20, 2012

  A day of art, music and food called Go West Fest is a new event set for Saturday, April 7. Theater company Upstart Productions is steering the bash, which will happen in a converted warehouse space at... More >>

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  Still Defying Gravity, Broadway Diva Stephanie J. Block Joins All-Stars for Friday's Epic Concert Do You Hear the People Sing

  published Mar 20, 2012

  Those who were in the audience that night in October 2005 remember it well. The national tour of Wicked had hit the Music Hall at Fair Park for the first time and it was a sold-out opening. A huge Bro... More >>

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  Steel Yourself for The Midwest Trilogy, Eric Steele's Serious Look at What's Wrong with Corporate America

  published Mar 16, 2012

  Eric Steele is a busy young Dallas playwright and screenwriter who thinks theater and film aren't mutually exclusive art forms. With his show The Midwest Trilogy, now playing through April 7 at Second... More >>

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  At Oral Fixation at The MAC, Confessions Are Good for the Soul

  published Mar 14, 2012

  Taking private, often painful experiences and making them public is the point of Oral Fixation (An Obsession with True Life Tales). The new monthly series of spoken-word performances drew a full hou... More >>

• WaterTower's Out of the Loop Fringe Fest Attracts a Slew of Sharp One- and Two-actor Shows.

  published March 8, 2012

  "That awkward moment when ..." is a running theme in some of the best shows in this year's busy Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at... More >>

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  Stop, Hey, What's That Soundr Check Out the Videos Goin' 'Round.

  published Mar 02, 2012

  There are strange noises emanating from the earth's core. There are even stranger noises booming down from the sky, according to witnesses around the world who've recorded them and put them up on Yo... More >>

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  At Theatre Three, Aaron Sorkin's Farnsworth Invention Rewinds to the Origins of the Boob Tube

  published Mar 01, 2012

  Everyone watches television, but hardly anyone can tell you who invented it. Lightbulbr Edison. Telephoner Bell. TVr Huhr You'll know a lot more after you see The Farnsworth Invention, a play by Aar... More >>

• Theatre Three Actors Click with Aaron Sorkin's Fast-Talking Drama The Farnsworth Invention

  published March 1, 2012

  What writer Aaron Sorkin did with the founding of Facebook for his Oscar-winning screenplay The Social Network, he does with similar... More >>