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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  83 Things We Learned in 2012

  published Dec 27, 2012

  With a long lens, you can see Kate Middleton's boobs. Everyone needs to be nicer to the weird kids. Don't leave the monkey in the car too long when you're at IKEA. Jon Stewart is always correct. T... More >>

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  The Five Greatest Hair Moments in the Musical Jekyll & Hyde

  published Dec 05, 2012

  There are 23 people in the cast of Jekyll & Hyde, but the real star of the show is lead actor Constantine Maroulis' hair. It shimmers, it glistens, it flips, flies and flaps. It goes back in a long po... More >>

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  Second Thought Theatre, Theatre Nouveau, Trinity Shakespeare Announce 2013 Seasons

  published Nov 27, 2012

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  The Best Plays about JFK

  published Nov 26, 2012

  In this week's Dallas Observer, we chronicle the history of Jack Ruby, All-American Boy, perhaps the best play ever produced by Dallas Theater Center. It's on a surprisingly short list of American pla... More >>

• Crazy for You at Theatre Three Takes Some Nutty Missteps

  published November 22, 2012

  Here's how lack of attention to detail sucks the funny out of a big musical comedy like Crazy for You, the show packed with... More >>

• Let’s Get Ready To RU-U-MBLE!

  published October 18, 2012

  Dallas Theater Center has turned the Wyly Theatre into a sports arena for its latest play, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity.... More >>

• Not Much to Dig in Undermain Theatre's Burying Our Father

  published November 15, 2012

  If Burying Our Father, the biblical whatchamacallit at Undermain Theatre, is supposed to be comedy, it needs to be funnier. If... More >>

• Where's the Joy in Kitchen Dog's Beauty Queen of Leenane?

  published November 15, 2012

  "Better 50 enemies outside the house than one within," says an old Irish proverb. In the tiny, moldy Connemara cottage that's the setting for... More >>

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  Before MacHomer Ends After 17 Years, an Interview with the Guy Bringing Macbeth and the The Simpsons Together in Dallas

  published Nov 14, 2012

  Something funny comes to the Winspear on Thursday with the one-night-only performance of the family-friendly one-man show MacHomer, actor-writer Rick Miller's comic adaptation of Macbeth using charact... More >>

• At Wyly Theatre, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Offers More Head Smacks Than Smackdowns

  published November 1, 2012

  What is the one thing you'd expect to see in a play about the world of professional televised wrestling? And what is missing from The... More >>

• Lyric Stage's 1776 is a Star-Spangled Treat

  published November 1, 2012

  Great idea by Lyric Stage producer Steven Jones to open his revival of the grand old musical 1776 during campaign season. If only... More >>

• Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Irma Vep.

  published September 27, 2012

  One dark and stormy night, Lady Enid arrives at a spooky old estate with her new husband. But the ghost of his first wife haunts the place (shades... More >>

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  At the Ochre House, Perro y Sangre's Flamenco is Tearing Up the Floor for Four Nights Only

  published Oct 25, 2012

  The limits of time, space and geography seem to fall away in Perro y Sangre ("dog and blood"), a thrilling blend of music, drama, flamenco and sex that opened for a four-night run at the 40-seat Ochre... More >>

• Ugly People, Pantagleize Theatre Company's Political Satire, Lives Up to its Adjective

  published October 25, 2012

  Oh, dear, oh, dear. From the sublime experience of An Iliad to the stumbling and mumbling of amateurs in Ugly People at... More >>

• Undermain's Iliad: A One-Man Iliad

  published October 25, 2012

  "Every time I sing this song, I hope it's the last time," says the weary troubadour played by Bruce DuBose at the start of Undermain Theatre's... More >>

• Gimme Moor

  published October 11, 2012

  Sex, racism, dirty politics, spousal abuse — Shakepeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is so full of juicy... More >>

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  Home, Strange Home, HGTV's New Show, Starts with a Cool House in North Dallas

  published Oct 18, 2012

  Cable channel HGTV goes big and goes Home, Strange Home with the new show about odd domiciles and the people who dwell in them. Premiering at 8 p.m., Friday, the weekly series starts with a visit to C... More >>

• Uptown Players' Hello Again Sings Songs in the Key of G-spot

  published October 18, 2012

  Ah, autumn. The leaves are falling, and so are the costumes in Uptown Players' adults-only musical Hello Again. Now... More >>

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  Ugly People: A Fort Worth Writer's Timely Play About Politics as Reality TV

  published Oct 17, 2012

  Politics as an extension of reality television isn't so farfetched. That's part of the premise of Ugly People, an interactive comedy by Fort Worth playwright James Venhaus that opens October 18 at the... More >>

• WaterTower Drains Life and Laughs from Mystery of Irma Vep; at Fair Park, Addams Family Lacks Snap

  published October 11, 2012

  They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky. But are they worth a looky? They'll close before Halloween, but the... More >>

• DTC Postpones New Dracula for Neil Simon Comedy

  published Oct 09, 2012

  We're beginning to suspect that Dallas Theater Center's Kevin Moriarty has a secret plan to stage all the plays that put our teeth on edge. Besides all the Shakespeare he loves doing (they have King L... More >>

• We Hear It Kilt, Live

  published September 13, 2012

  Something wicked this way comes in Shakespeare Dallas’ fall production of Macbeth, directed by Stefan Novinski with an... More >>

• Freud's Last Session at Theatre Three Argues About the Existence of God (Be Patient)

  published October 4, 2012

  In Freud's Last Session, the smart one-act now on view at Theatre Three, novelist and Oxford don C.S. Lewis utters this snappy... More >>

• Open Wide For Party Mouth

  published September 20, 2012

  It’s 1968 and a couple of bored girls from Mesquite venture into Big D to find some thrills in Party Mouth, the latest new... More >>

• They Still Shoot Puppets, Don’t They?

  published September 13, 2012

  The national tour of the Tony-winning drama War Horse is at the Winspear right now, with double matinees on its two Sundays. Based... More >>