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 World Is A Stage, In Spanish

  published September 20, 2012

  In the Latino Cultural Center’s three-day one-act play festival, a trio of theater companies present pieces telling stories from the... More >>

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  Out, Damned Spot!: The Best Pop Culture References That Came from Macbeth

  published Sep 26, 2012

  When you hear someone say "Out, damned spot!," that's from a line in Macbeth (used in endless headlines for stories about acne cures and stain removers). When you hear "there will be blood" or a refer... More >>

• Armed and Loquacious

  published September 27, 2012

  Is that a handgun that I see before me? It is. In Shakespeare Dallas' just-opened production of Macbeth, the Scottish and... More >>

• Titles and Tiaras

  published September 20, 2012

  Honey Boo Boo, reality TV's hillbilly kiddie diva, has nothing on Puddles Johnson, a tiny titan in the world of glitzy tots with fake tans and... More >>

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  Eight Ways DTC's Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Will Feel Like the Real (Fake) Thing

  published Sep 19, 2012

  Dallas Theater Center's next main event sounds like a knockout. Or, more accurately, it hopes to bring the "white heat." Kristoffer Diaz' Pulitzer-finalist play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity,... More >>

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  Five Reasons to Love the JFK Bit in Dallas Theater Center's Second City Does Dallas

  published Sep 13, 2012

  See also: Holy War Horse There's a Lot of Great Theater Opening in Dallas in the Next Week So a couple of snooty critics and uptight theater patrons are upset about a sketch in The Second City Does D... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  My Oh Yes

  published September 13, 2012

  It gives us pleasure to confess that Frank Loesser's snappy show tune "Big D" (little-A, double-L-A-S) helps spell success for two productions... More >>

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  The Dallas Opera Needs a Bunch of Hotties for its Next Show, Aida

  published Sep 12, 2012

  See also: Ten Must-Hear Classical Music Shows in Dallas This Fall No flabr Check. No shirtr Check. No singing talentr Check, and you still get a paycheck if Dallas Opera deems you and your tight abs ... More >>

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  The Best Shows and Performances of the Theater Season, According to DFW's Critics

  published Sep 10, 2012

  See also: Holy War Horse There's a Lot of Great Theater Opening in Dallas in the Next Week The annual fried chicken and loud cackling session known as the DFW Critics Forum luncheon was lighter on bo... More >>

• Stage West's Around the World in 80 Days is an Amazing Race

  published September 6, 2012

  What a trip! Stage West's production of Around the World in 80 Days is featherweight comedy that floats along nicely,... More >>

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  Holy War Horse There's a Lot of Great Theater Opening in Dallas in the Next Week

  published Sep 05, 2012

  See also: Dallas' Seven Best Post-Theater Hangs Dallas doesn't really have a theater "season." With more than 50 professional and semi-professional companies crowding the stages, there's hardly a wee... More >>

• In Uptown Players' The Producers, Springtime for Hitler Goose-steps to Greatness

  published August 30, 2012

  How did Uptown Players prepare for the first local production of the hit Broadway musical The Producers? Step One: They... More >>

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  Here's Your First Look at the Dallas Summer Musicals 2013 Schedule

  published Aug 28, 2012

  See also: The Five Best Bald Actors on DFW Stages The circle of life for Dallas Summer Musicals is to find big shows based on popular movies and bring them back to the Music Hall at Fair Park season ... More >>

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  The Five Best Bald Actors on DFW Stages

  published Aug 23, 2012

  How do you get ahead as a theater actor in Dallas and Fort Worthr Try shaving it. Finding good roles is not a hairy problem for this quintet of talented gents who don't mind that their scalps occasion... More >>

• Cruising with Neil Labute Down the Autobahn.

  published August 23, 2012

  Unfasten your seatbelts; Autobahn isn't such a bumpy ride. The seven short, intense two-character scripts by Neil LaBute, grouped... More >>

• Sweeney Flawed

  published August 16, 2012

  Any way you slice it, Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street can be bloody good fun. Currently running... More >>

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  Reflectors vs. Absorbers: A Hollywood Theory for Why Romney-Ryan Will Lose

  published Aug 15, 2012

  Here's why the Romney-Ryan ticket is a turn-off to voters and why they won't win in November, and it isn't only about their granny-starving, wealth-worshiping policies. The secret to the scary-bad vib... More >>

• It's What's Inside

  published August 9, 2012

  "There's something awfully sad about happiness, isn't there?" says the leading man in Noel Coward's bubbly 1939 comedy Present... More >>

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  ATTPAC and Shakespeare Dallas Will Perform Every Shakespeare Work Ever Over the Next Five Years

  published Aug 03, 2012

  See also: The Rise of the Understudies Over the next five years, the AT&T Performing Arts Center and Shakespeare Dallas will present all of William Shakespeare's work, including every one of the play... More >>

• Smokey But No Fire at WaterTower Theatre, While Amphibian's Understudy Underwhelms

  published August 2, 2012

  Someday musical theater will unplug the jukebox and come up with new tunes. Just not anytime soon. Not as long as audiences are still paying to... More >>

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  The Rise of the Understudies: Two Booker T. Grads Step into the Lights on Broadway

  published Aug 01, 2012

  It was a good weekend on Broadway for the Booker T. High School Class of '92. Actors Brian J. Gonzales and Cedric Neal, who graduated the same year from Dallas' performing arts magnet school, both ste... More >>

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  Five Jukebox Musicals We Wish Were Real

  published Jul 31, 2012

  See also: Dallas' Seven Best Post-Theater Hangouts Addison's WaterTower Theatre has just opened its production of the jukebox musical Smokey Joe's Cafe, celebrating the many rock and roll hits of com... More >>

• Stage West's What the Butler Saw Should Be Good. It Really Should.

  published Jul 27, 2012

  Find more theater at dallasobserver.com/calendar. In good farce, there shouldn't be time to breathe. Farce moves. Its momentum picks up speed. When you're watching well-done farce, you should be laug... More >>

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  Dallas' Seven Best Post-Theater Hangouts

  published Jul 25, 2012

  See also: Our five favorite local wig shops. They don't have a Joe Allen or a Sardi's to repair to after an evening of theater. So where do Dallas actors gather to unwind when the curtain rings downr... More >>

• The Long and Short of FIT

  published July 26, 2012

  Women who talk to God, to a coyote, to a therapist and to the world at large speak their minds in four plays, three of them world premieres,... More >>