Background
Kuchwara was born on February 28, 1947, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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Michael Kuchwara
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Syracuse University.
Career
Kuchwara worked as both a critic and journalist for the Associated Press for more than from 1984 until 2010, writing pieces that were read worldwide. Kuchwara, who was based in New York City, reviewed as many as 200 theater productions a year. His father, a United States Air Force pilot, worked for the National Security Agency.
Kuchwara"s interest in theater and the entertainment industry began when he saw his first play during the late-1950s, the comedic Third Best Sport, by Leo G. Bayer and Eleanor Perry, at the Poconos Playhouse in Pennsylvania.
He received his bachelor"s degree from Syracuse University and his master"s degree from the University of Missouri. Kuchwara worked for the Associated Press for more than 40 years, first as a reporter and then as a theater critic.
He began his career as a journalist for the Associated Press" bureau in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to New York City to work as an Associated Press editor on the wire service"s national desk.
In 1984, Kuchwara became the Associated Press chief theater critic, a position he held until his death in 2010.
Michael Kuchwara died at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan of idiopathic ischemic lung disease on May 22, 2010, at the age of 63.
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