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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  When Charlie Met Squeaky: Matthew Posey's Bold New Musical Mean Imagines the Birth of the Manson Family

  published Feb 28, 2012

  Here's how small the Ochre House theater is: When the actors in Mean, Matthew Posey's new musical about Charlie Manson, enter and exit, they use the front door of the place. A whoosh of wind comes in ... More >>

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  WaterTower Theatre's Terry Martin Returns to Acting for a Big Role at Dallas Theater Center

  published Feb 24, 2012

  Casting news for local plays isn't usually headline-worthy. Unless, that is, the artistic director from one major theater is cast as an actor in a much-anticipated production at another major theater.... More >>

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  The Chicken Who Wasn't Chicken: Its Yolks, er, Jokes Are Funny and Its Message Isn't Scrambled

  published Feb 24, 2012

  The kids in the sweet, funny new play The Chicken Who Wasn't Chicken, running in Plano through Sunday, February 26, don't know how lucky they are. The script is a new one from Matt Lyle, a former Dall... More >>

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  What Happens on the Porch Stays on the Porch in Second Thought Theatre's Pluck the Day

  published Feb 23, 2012

  The guys hanging out together in Steven Walters' get-down funny play Pluck the Day are old high school buds, now in their 30s and starting to go to seed. Duck, the former gridiron star (played with lo... More >>

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  Contemporary Theatre's Actors Keep It Steamy in The Night of the Iguana

  published Feb 22, 2012

  Tennessee Williams had a weird thing about hotels, beaches and death. In his play The Night of the Iguana, currently onstage at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, the rundown Costa Verde beach resort in... More >>

• Manson Family Values

  published February 23, 2012

  "A long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy." Charles Manson said that. If anybody's qualified to weigh in on... More >>

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  In His New Out of the Loop Festival Show, Mime Bill Bowers Explores the Sound of Silence

  published Feb 21, 2012

  In his new solo show Beyond Words, Bill Bowers combines mime, music and text to tell stories from his life growing up in Montana. He also shares some stories from other lives, including one about a sm... More >>

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  Kitchen Dog Theater's Collapse Builds a Bridge between Hope and Fear

  published Feb 17, 2012

  Sometimes a play is worth seeing for the words the actors are saying. Sometimes it's for the actors saying the words. See Collapse, a new play by Allison Moore at Kitchen Dog Theater, for the red hot ... More >>

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  In Theatre Three's The Farnsworth Invention, Alex Organ Keys in on His Latest Starring Role

  published Feb 16, 2012

  A few good men were involved in the invention of television. That's the subject of the play The Farnsworth Invention, written by Oscar and Emmy winner Aaron Sorkin (West Wing, The Social Network, Mone... More >>

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  Bring It On: The Musical Is a Silly, Soaring Celebration of Blood, Sweat and Cheers

  published Feb 15, 2012

  It may never win a Tony but Bring It On: The Musical deserves a solid gold spirit stick for mixing the dynamic moves of those cheerleading competitions on ESPN with the happy-peppy singing and dancing... More >>

• Night of the Iguana and Pluck the Day Delve Deep Into Life on the Porch.

  published February 16, 2012

  A lot of drinking and heavy thinking can happen on a hot day on a veranda. Two good shows running on Dallas stages right now — The... More >>

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  Coming to Echo Theatre in April: Matt & Ben (That's Damon and Affleck) Played by Women

  published Feb 14, 2012

  You know Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor on six seasons of the NBC comedy The Office. But did you also know that Kaling won a whole bunch of awards portraying Ben Affleckr She did, co-starring with Bren... More >>

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  With Her Musical Out of the Loop Show, Diana Sheehan says Midlife Is a Cabaret

  published Feb 09, 2012

  Five years ago, actress Diana Sheehan had what she describes as "the most euphoric day of my life." Both of her young children were in school all day at last and, for the first time in years, Sheehan ... More >>

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  Nouveau 47's Coyote Keeps You Guessing in a Howling Good Night of Theater

  published Feb 08, 2012

  This is the final weekend of performances of Coyote, a seat-gripper of a play at the Magnolia Lounge in Fair Park. Nouveau 47, the little troupe modeling itself on the Margo Jones theater company of 6... More >>

• Coyote and Collapse Twist Real-life Drama into Dark Comedy

  published February 9, 2012

  As small, intense, pull-your-hair-out comedies, the new plays Coyote and Collapse have a lot in common.... More >>

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  Giant at Dallas Theater Center Takes a Great Novel and Turns It into Musical Queso

  published Feb 07, 2012

  Bick and Leslie's Big Song in Giant There are many things amiss in the musical Giant, the Dallas Theater Center/Public Theater co-production playing a couple more weekends at the Wyly Theatre. But l... More >>

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  No Joke, Thomas Ward Writes of Stand-Up Comedy Years in International Falls at Out of the Loop Fest

  published Feb 03, 2012

  Among the promising slate of new works by local playwrights debuting at this year's Out of the Loop Fringe Festival, March 1-10 at WaterTower Theatre in Addison, is the dark comedy International Falls... More >>

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  When Idol Judge Randy Jackson Says "You're Too Broadway," Betty Buckley Takes It Personally

  published Feb 03, 2012

  Tony Award winner and Fort Worth resident Betty Buckley watches American Idol. She loves American Idol. But she's about to blow a gasket over Idol judge Randy Jackson's putdowns of some of the singers... More >>

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  Constantine Maroulis Goes Mean and Green in Alley Theatre's Comic Book Musical Toxic Avenger

  published Feb 01, 2012

  Former American Idol finalist Constantine Maroulis has turned into one of Broadway's favorite leading men. It was announced in January that he'll star as both title roles in the New York revival of Fr... More >>

• Giant Pumps a Dry Hole

  published February 2, 2012

  A giant of a musical opened here the other night, but it wasn't Giant, the horseless cowpoke operetta now plodding along at the... More >>

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  At Plano Children's Theatre, They've Shampooed All the Black Kids out of Hairspray

  published Jan 30, 2012

  You need two things when you do the musical Hairspray: a fat girl to play the lead character, Tracy Turnblad, and a bunch of African-American kids to play the African-American kids. There are about a ... More >>

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  The 2012 Festival of Independent Theatres Will See You Now

  published Jan 27, 2012

  You have 35 days to get that great play you've been writing finished and entered in the next Festival of Independent Theatres. FITfest, as it's redundantly known, is the quirky-wonderful midsummer s... More >>

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  Melancholy Play Will Make You Sad (About the State of Plays)

  published Jan 26, 2012

  Playwright Sarah Ruhl, still in her 30s, is a favorite of the "edgy" theater companies around here. But whyr Her plays are witless and obtuse, hardly worth producing, much less paying to see. Melancho... More >>

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  Elvish Is in the Building When One Man Lord Of the Rings Opens Out of the Loop Fest

  published Jan 25, 2012

  One actor, 42 characters, sound effects, musical score and more Hobbits than you can shake a crooked stick at -- Charles Ross' performance of his One Man Lord of the Rings show will open this year's O... More >>

• Gooey Love for Toxic Avenger

  published January 26, 2012

  "If a blind girl won't love ugly people, who will?" That's the central dilemma in Toxic Avenger, the eye-popping, knee-slapping,... More >>