Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony Award-nominated choreographer and director whose colorfully varied career included commissions for New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater as well as Broadway musicals including “Swing!” and films including “Footloose,” died on Jan. 12 in Rockville Centre, N.Y., on Long Island. She was 78. The cause …
The dramatic canon has always adored a nice, juicy perversion of motherhood — think the filicidal Medea; the incestuous Jocasta; even the ruthless Lady Macbeth, with her enduringly jarring mention of having “given suck.” It makes ample space, too, for mothers who must be escaped by their sons, like the …
“Praise the lord for ‘Tammy Faye,’” Matt Wolf cheered in The New York Times when the Elton John musical opened in London in 2022. The show, Wolf added, “has a heart as big as the title character’s bouffant hairdo.” Two years later, reviewing the Broadway transfer, Elisabeth Vincentelli begged to …