South Coast Repertory has slated Manuel Puig’s...

South Coast Repertory has slated Manuel Puig’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” for a Second Stage production to run from Jan. 25 to Feb. 24, 1991, with previews to begin Jan. 22. SCR previously had announced that a “new play” would fill that slot. “Kiss,” about a political activist and a flamboyant homosexual who share a prison cell, was adapted by Puig from his novel of the same title and was produced in Spain and England before being made into a Hollywood film starring William Hurt and Raoul Julia in 1985. The play was staged at the Cast Theatre in Los Angeles in 1987. SCR associate artist David Chambers will direct. “This is the play that he is really hot on, and that’s why it’s being done,” said theater spokesman Cristofer Gross.