Theater Critic Howard Kissel Dies at Age 69
Howard Kissel, who served as chief theater critic for the New York Daily News for 20 years, died on February 24 at his home in Manhattan. The 69-year-old writer had been suffering from complications from an April 2010 liver transplant. Son of a newspaper editor, Kissel grew up in Milwaukee and fell in love with theater as a child during vacations to New York. He graduated from Columbia, where he won the university…