Spiders are among the most expeditious species on Earth.

Those delicate, ornate, expertly crafted webs—have you ever stopped to admire them?—they can be whipped up in about 60 minutes. In the time it took me to decide where to order a sandwich from for lunch, a spider has woven a work of art that is also a home…and a trap. It’s beautiful and it’s sinister.

It’s fitting then, that Kiss of the Spider Woman had to be made at a spider’s pace—and its attention to art.

Kiss of the Spider Woman is a movie musical starring Jennifer Lopez, in a part made famous by Broadway icon Chita Rivera. It is its own unique, dangerous tapestry: a persecuted gender-conforming window dresser named Molina (played exquisitely in this production by rising star Tonaituh) is imprisoned alongside a dissident (Die

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