Douglas Watt (critic), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Douglas Watt (critic)

Theater critic

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1914

Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, United States

Date of Death: 29-Sep-2009

Profession: songwriter, music critic, journalist, theatre critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Douglas Benjamin Watt (January 20, 1914 – September 29, 2009) was an American theater critic who spent nearly six decades covering Broadway theatre — and then Off Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway — for the Daily News and also reported on classical music and opera for The New Yorker.
He helped establish Porgy and Bess as a classic after it failed in an earlier Broadway run and helped foster the careers of playwrights such as Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams.