Critical Memories

Frank Rizzo remembers two theatre critics. “The theater world this month lost two distinguished critics who enlightened their readers as well as decades of theater artists. Boston’s Elliot Norton, dean of American drama critics, died July 20 at the age of 100. Closer to home, Markland Taylor, who wrote for the New Haven Register and Variety, died in his home in Southbury on July 6. He was 67. Both were great influences, especially to this theater lover.”