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...children reaches over and pushes up the sleeve of the teacher's shirt. Just above the right wrist is a large tattoo of a spider, the mark of a criminal. The children are afraid of him. But, says one, "at least he helped. The other teachers did nothing but wait for the aid shipments, then steal the food and go home...
Terrence McNally, the playwright of this austerely sentimental journey, is a longtime toiler in the vineyards of the theater who increasingly finds himself the height of hot. His libretto for the Broadway musical Kiss of the Spider Woman won a shower of awards including a Tony; his AIDS teleplay, Andre's Mother, won an Emmy; his domestic tragicomedy, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, has been a hit on both coasts, and Frankie and Johnny became a movie with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his early hits Next and The Ritz, McNally revealed his fevered comic sense, satiric wit, robust skepticism...
This season's best musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman, merges a homoerotic love story with homage to bygone movies viewed from a campy gay perspective. The season's ablest comedy, The Sisters Rosensweig, sympathetically portrays a bisexual man who romances one of the title siblings, then leaves her because he prefers men. The season's foremost drama, Angels in America, which opened last week to thunderous and deserved acclaim, positions the gay experience at the center of America's political and spiritual identity...
THEATER: Along Comes the Spider...
...grim, brilliantly hallucinatory Kiss of the Spider Woman...