Adaptations are a funny thing. In 1976, author Manuel Puig published the novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, which he then adapted into a stage play in 1983. 1985 saw the release of the film adaptation, ...

The new film “Kiss of the Spider Woman” has a complicated history. First, let’s be clear which version to which we’re referring. It’s based on the famed 1976 novel by the gay Argentinian writer Manuel ...

One of modern cinema’s foremost champions of stage-to-screen musicals, Bill Condon has enjoyed enviable success as the writer-director of Dreamgirls, director of Disney’s live-action Beauty and the ...

Reviving a production that proved an international success for the GALA Hispanic Theatre in 1994, the company launches its landmark 50th anniversary season with an incisive, atmospheric El Beso de la ...

Kiss of the Spider Woman, the movie musical adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit starring Jennifer Lopez, is new in theaters. How soon will it be available to watch at home? “Valentín ...

How did drab New Jersey soundstages become as bright and bold as the Technicolor movie musicals of Hollywood’s Golden Age? And how did industrial buildings on the banks of the Hackensack River become ...