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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  Beyond Southfork: The 5 Best TV Shows Shot In Dallas

  published Jun 13, 2012

  Welcome back, Ewings. Where y'all beenr Only in television limbo, it turns out, because everything that ever was on TV eventually is reborn. (Out of desperation, apparently. What else explains the soo... More >>

• You Should Be Going Going To Boeing-Boeing

  published Jun 12, 2012

  Summer is the season for light comedy at the theater and Boeing-Boeing, the farce now running at Addison's WaterTower Theatre, will have your giggle muscles going boing-boing for two solid hours of fu... More >>

• High-Flying Boeing-Boeing Hits Comedy Stratosphere

  published June 7, 2012

  Shut the front door. And the kitchen door. And the bathroom and bedroom doors. If it's a farce, and WaterTower Theatre's... More >>

• It's a Tony Watch Party and Costume Contest at the Winspear. Go as Jesus or Gypsy.

  published Jun 05, 2012

  ATTPAC invites you to dress as your favorite Broadway character for the Tony Award-watching party Sunday, June 10, at the Winspear Opera House. So how easy is it to throw on a rumpled suit, carry an o... More >>

• Ruth Rises at Kitchen Dog's New Play Fest

  published Jun 04, 2012

  Like fellow Oklahoman Tracy Letts (of August: Osage County fame), playwright Vicki Caroline Cheatwood has a good ear for how people in that state talk to each other. Plain-spoken, yes, but with a cert... More >>

• DTC's God of Carnage: A Comedy of Manners, Vomiting

  published May 30, 2012

  There isn't a "splatter zone" for Dallas Theater Center's production of the play God of Carnage, but maybe there should be. A massive, catastrophic bout of vomiting by a character happens early on, a ... More >>

• KDT's Ruth Links Dust Bowl Okies to Modern Xenophobia

  published May 31, 2012

  Where are the great new American plays coming from? Not just from East Coast graduate programs that follow the Paula (How I Learned to... More >>

• At Ochre House Theater, It's (Henry) Miller Time

  published May 25, 2012

  When Ochre House founder Matthew Posey gets his teeth into something, he takes big bites. For his latest play, Cicerone, he's masticating his way through the life and loves of Tropic of Cancer author ... More >>

• Stage West Lets Molly Ivins Say it All

  published May 24, 2012

  At Fort Worth's Stage West, Texas' brashest political commentator lives again in the one-woman play Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. Actress Georgia Clinton portrays Ivins in the prod... More >>

• Urban Savages Slug it out in God of Carnage; Cicerone Needs to Cheer Up

  published May 24, 2012

  Are we barbarians under our civilized veneers? Or are we just big babies in grown-up clothes, ready to throw tantrums when we don't get our... More >>

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  In Ruth, Vicki Cheatwood Explores Life's Darkest Stages

  published May 21, 2012

  Dallas writer Vicki Cheatwood's new play Ruth is a modern retelling of the Ruth and Naomi story from the Old Testament. What Cheatwood went through personally while writing it, however, sounds more li... More >>

• Politics and Pop Culture Take a Whoopin' in Shows Inspired by Green Day and Molly Ivins

  published May 17, 2012

  Turns out Green Day and Molly Ivins had a lot in common. The musical American Idiot at the Winspear Opera House and the... More >>

• DCT's Diary Of A Worm, A Spider & A Fly Is Good For What's Bugging You

  published May 14, 2012

  Join the swarm at the regional premiere of the kids' musical comedy Diary of a Worm, a Spider & a Fly, now onstage at Dallas Children's Theater. They do things big at DCT, but this may be their bigges... More >>

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  Pinter's Birthday Party Is A Gift To The Audience At Undermain Theatre

  published May 10, 2012

  The whiff of menace enters the room right at the top of The Birthday Party, the 1958 Harold Pinter dark comedy now on view at Deep Ellum's Undermain Theatre. An older couple, Petey and Meg (T.A. Taylo... More >>

• DCT Swats it Out of the Park with Diary of a Worm, a Spider & a Fly.

  published May 10, 2012

  Something bugging you? Hop over to Dallas Children's Theater to catch the regional premiere of the delightful Diary of a Worm, a... More >>

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  Just Announced: Dennis Miller To Rant At Bass Hall On June 8

  published May 08, 2012

  Dennis Miller, comedian, talk show host, rant artist, Bill O'Reilly acolyte and Bill Maher mirror-opposite, returns to Bass Performance Hall for a concert at 8 p.m., Friday, June 8. Tickets are on sal... More >>

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  Upstart's New Comedy The Better Doctor Can't Find Its Pulse

  published May 04, 2012

  Matt Lyle's new play The Better Doctor has a lot to say about the American healthcare industry. But it says it without talking. As the latest in Lyle's series of "silent films for the stage," Doctor k... More >>

• Uptown Players' Movie Spoof Silence of the Clams Commits Mollusk Aforethought

  published May 04, 2012

  For filthy fun, get your merkin to Jamie Morris' Silence of the Clams. Uptown Players is doing the outrageous drag spoof of the movie thriller about the cross-dressing serial killer and the butch FBI ... More >>

• DTC's Tigers Be Still Is Merely A Sitcom Of Another Stripe

  published May 02, 2012

  Young playwrights play the old shell game with their work these days. They write a TV sitcom pilot or a screenplay but try to pass it off as a piece for the stage. It's easier to get plays done and th... More >>

• Silence is Golden (Then, Not)

  published May 3, 2012

  To get down with Uptown Players and Upstart Productions, you'd better be up on your movies. Both theater companies have shows... More >>

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  DTC's God-and-Gays Drama Next Fall Leaves No Big Issue Off The Table

  published Apr 27, 2012

  Next Fall, the Geoffrey Nauffts play now running at Dallas Theater Center, presents a family acting out more issues than an episode of Dr. Phil. Mom and Dad (played by Kieran Connolly and Candy Buckle... More >>

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  Ladybug, Ladybug Flies Back Home. Can a Reunion Reading Have a Butterfly Effectr

  published Apr 26, 2012

  As Joni Mitchell sings it, "sometimes you don't know what you've got till it's gone." That's sort of the story of what happened to the play Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home, written by Texas actress an... More >>

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  Pictures at an Execution: Theatre Three's The Art of Murder Offers Brush with Bad Farce

  published Apr 25, 2012

  A new musical with a book by Joe DiPietro opened this week on Broadway. It's called Nice Work If You Can Get It and it stars Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara singing Flapper Era songs by George and ... More >>

• Next Fall and Tigers Be Still Have Issues (Bring Tissues)

  published April 26, 2012

  Adam and Luke are the odd couple Neil Simon didn't write. Funny, gay and in love, they're the couple at the center of Geoffrey Nauffts'... More >>

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  New Plays Are Born at Nouveau 47's Second New Works Fest, Starting This Week

  published Apr 23, 2012

  With its second festival of new plays starting Thursday, Nouveau 47 can now call it an "annual" event. The theater company in Margo Jones' old space at the Magnolia Lounge, Fair Park, regards their ou... More >>