In the following essay on Argentinian author Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, author Jonathan Tittler speculates on the success of the novel to transcend its boundaries of genre (from novel to .lm, play, drama, and musical comedy). Tittler proposes that this is Puig's most powerful—and most explicit—novel, not only because of the taboo themes it addresses (most notably homosexuality and revolution), but also how the writing itself interacts with these themes.
On 14 May 1990, Newsweek ran an article on a renewed concept in American theater, a series of productions called "new musicals," the most recent avatar of "off-off-off-Broadway." This collaborative venture between a local college and recognized theater mavens was touted as a bold initiative that would allow "a radical change, away from the high-stakes crapshoot of producing new musicals on.....
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