An Oscar-winning William Hurt playing an openly gay character in the 1985 film was “a radical ground-shaking,” says Tonatiuh ...

Like the the novel it's based upon, Kiss of the Spider Woman remain a landmark in the history of LGBTQ+ cinema. That's a ...

Kiss of the Spider Woman was turned into a musical in 1993, brought to life by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb, and playwright Terrence McNally.

A marquee title in this year’s lineup, Kiss of the Spider Woman has Lopez starring in the role made famous by Chita Rivera in the early 90s musical and by Sonia Braga in the 1985 Oscar-winning ...

“Kiss of the Spider Woman,” based on Manuel Puig’s novel of the same name, is set in an Argentinian prison in 1981. Lopez stars as the titular role, ...

After witnessing the glory of its original, definitive Broadway rendition (and the precise touring re-creation seen here in 1996), encountering Kiss of the Spider Woman in an ambitious, uneven ...

He remembers every film fondly except for one: "The Kiss of the Spider Woman," the story of a woman whose kiss is both irresistible and deadly. Along with cellmate Valentin (Teng Yang '11), a Marxist ...

“Kiss of the Spider Woman” grew out of Puig’s frustrations with the politics of his era and his contemporaries. He eschewed explicit polemic in his work, which led to his being viewed with ...

Frequently described as a cross between steel and gossamer, Kander and Ebb's musical of Manuel Puig's mind-boggling novel Kiss of the Spider Woman is nothing short of breathtaking when properly ...

The subject of this rarely seen play is repression and brutality in a Latin American prison, and Welk's energetic production is both risky and commendable.

I was lucky enough to attend the world premiere of Hector Babenco’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” when it premiered in Cannes in ’85; I even met the brilliant William Hurt brie… ...