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, ...

Bill Condon's Kiss of the Spider Woman challenges a belief I've long held: that in order for a musical to succeed, it must have memorable musical numbers. For these reasons alone, this movie shouldn't ...

Jennifer Lopez is inviting audiences to get a little campy with it this Halloween season with Kiss of the Spider Woman, the new musical movie opening in theaters this weekend. Written and directed by ...

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 ...

Does a piece of art ever burrow into you and swallow you up from the inside out? Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman is the latest iteration of the story’s history of adaptations, from the original ...