4/2/2009 - GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL To Have It's Off-Broadway Premiere At the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre News and Press Releases
Entertainment Events Productions will present the Off-Broadway Premiere of the smash UK hit, GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL, written by Louise Roche and directed by Jack Randle. Performances will begin June 2nd, for an Opening Night on June 4th at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre at Sofia's (227 West 46th Street, next to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre).
9/22/2008 - Get Ready for a Fun "Girls Night" Out Review
The opening night of "Girls Night: The Musical" at Shea's Smith Theatre was an estrogen extravaganza. Under a spinning disco ball, there was raucous laughter, singing and dancing - and that was just the audience.
8/8/2008 - Raucous "Girls Night" fun for all Review
The estrogen level of "Girls Night" did everything it could to blow the roof off of the palatial Hanover Theatre Wednesday night.
7/17/2008 - Girls Night: The Musical - Get Ready for Estrogen Overload Review
Imagine this if you can: "Sex in the City" meets "Desperate Housewives." Then, throw in "Grease" as the offbeat third ingredient and you've got "Girls Night: The Musical."
5/30/2008 - Girls Night: The Musical Review
I must say I was pleasantly surprised after dragging my baby-booming, starch-conservative mother out to "Girls Night: The Musical" last night.
It even sent my Pentecostal mother on a laughing spree...
5/14/2008 - Leave The Man at Home For Fun Musical Review
Think just as funny and raunchy as "Sex in the City," although definitely not as sophisticated.
4/4/2008 - Broadway Series South: Girls Night: The Musical Review
Last night, this uproarious musical comedy, produced by Entertainment Events Inc. and Robert Dragotta of New York City and presented April 1 - 6 by Broadway Series South, had the mostly female audience in A.J. Fletcher Opera Theatre rocking, from its opening number - Diana Ross' "Remember Me" (1971) to its exuberant encore of Gloria Gaynor's 1978 chart-topper "I Will Survive."
12/4/2007 - Wimple while you work: Sister leads "Christmas Catechism" Review
So, a nun walks into a theater. No, really. It's not a joke. Not yet.
10/31/2007 - Paramount musical celebrates female friendships News and Press Releases
There's nothing quite so entertaining as watching girls who just want to have fun. They can be catty and cynical, silly or serious, weepy or wistful. And they've evene been known to get a bit raunchy every now and then - usually after midnight and only with the most innocent of intentions.
10/25/2007 - Sister rules, with sharp humor and nostalgia Review
"Late Nite Catechism" at the Olney Theatre Center for the Arts through Nov. 11, takes a hilarious and nostalgic look at parochial school education 40-some years ago, and incorporates many of the changes in the church since then, but it is never unkind or cynical about either the old or the new ways.
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Archive Reviews
'Late Nite Catechism" 'schools" audiences
Never has adult catechism class been so much fun. "Nun orders are like gangs," Sister Diana Carl said in the cathedral-like Overture Center for the Arts. This new show, "Late Nite Catechism" drew a diverse audience of agnostics, devout Catholics, Lutherans and those simply amused by religious satire.
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'Sister' brings laughs, gaffes to Stomeham
If you're caught on the spot at Stoneham Theatre's Catechism "class," not knowing the answer could mean the difference between spending the next two hours laughing at the other dunces in the audience and being the butt of their jokes - on stage.
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Late Nite Catechism Is Sinfully Funny
This sinfully side-splitting installment of the LNC series focuses on the sacraments of Matrimony and the "Blessing of the Sick," formerly known as the "Last Rites" (or as Sister explains, "Same sacrament, different marketing plan.").
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'Trailer Park Musical' is loud, earthy fun
Wouldn't it be nice if the season's best musical so far were one of those new-fangled, offbeat pieces with the sheen of intellectual cachet? Or maybe a great classic show revisited and illuminated afresh? It isn't. It's a loud, lewd, lowbrow, white-trash thing called "The Great American Trailer Park Musical..."
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Downstairs Cabaret's "SHOUT The Mod Musical"
Downstairs Cabaret has heavily hyped its new show, "SHOUT! The Mod Musical," as the next "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change." Given the astounding run of the latter - seven years and counting at Downstairs Cabaret's Windsor Street location - "SHOUT!" has some big shoes to fill. Thankfully the cast features five talented women, an amazing catalogue of songs, and some groovy boots just made for walking. It's frothy, infectious fun.
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A Saintly Lesson in Laughs
A New York City bakery once ran an ad campaign that featured the tagline, "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's." Similarly, you don't have to be Catholic to enjoy "Late Nite Catechism," a delightful comedy by Maripat Donovan and Vicki Quade...
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SHOUT! is a Swinging Treat from the '60's
Groovy - or as Austin Powers would say, "smashing baby" - is appropriate lingo for describing "SHOUT! The Mod Musical," which has made its Rochester debut at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre.
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Unicorn offers peek at next season
The Unicorn also reports that its wild and wacky holiday show, “The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” attracted 4,111 theatergoers, making it the fourth most popular show in the Unicorn’s history. Marketing director Justin Shaw explained that because the theater had to add chairs for many performances, the show actually ran more than 100 percent capacity. Not bad.
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Watch out, wise men: Sister's a wiseacre
Now for something completely different - at least in these rancorous times: a comedy inspired by the Catholic Church that isn't edgy or angry or blasphemous.
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'Catechism' lets Catholics laugh at Mother Superior
Are you Catholic? If so, you should have been in the catechism class Saturday night.
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'Late Nite Catechism' - New York Times - New Haven, CT
The New York Times raves about the latest engagement of Late Nite Catechism at the Long Wharf Theatre.
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'Late Nite Catechism' - Norwalk Citizen News
You don’t have to be Catholic to like Late Nite Catechism, the road-show currently playing at Long Wharf’s Stage II Theater, but if you have had the good (or mis-) fortune ever to attend parochial school or catechism class, the evening does produce some seat-squirming memories, especially when Sister (Denise Fennell) deals with the relationship of a 12-inch, metal-edged ruler to class discipline.
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'Late Nite Catechism' - New Haven Advocate
As any teacher knows, concentrating on a lesson while being prepared for any unexpected confrontation that may arise is a special skill. Doing so in a performance context while actively provoking those showdowns requires God-given gifts.
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'Late Nite Catechism' - Harbor News
From the moment you are seated in the darkened theater for a performance of Late Nite Catechism (and God help you if you’re late), you are trapped inside Sister Marie Christina’s Catholic school classroom and will very likely be reprimanded for any number of violations from talking, laughing, clapping, wearing an inappropriate outfit, or (as Chris Arnott, theater critic for The Advocate quickly found out) chewing gum.
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'The Yiddish Are Coming' - Out Front Denver
Besides being a very fun romp through the Yiddish lexicon, playwright, Joel Paley has given loving tribute to his memories of some vibrantly expressive Jewish forebears.
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'The Yiddish Are Coming' - Variety
Dana Baráthy's dazzling song and dance number, "Mitzi Katz," sets the stage for the competitive showdown and Deborah Radloff's boa-wrapped burlesque send-up, "Borscht Belt Betty" is a rocker. Craig Sculli's ambitious rabbi, Adam Shapiro's conniving agent, and David Ruffin's mercenary director pull out all their chops...
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'Late Nite Catechism 2' - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
When Maripat Donovan's "Late Nite Catechism" first opened, it clearly hit a vein of delighted recognition. Now the "Catechism" empire is back with a fresh menu of memory and merriment, "Late Nite Catechism 2."
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'Late Nite Catechism 2' - City Paper
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the theater — at least with a venal sin on your soul — City Theatre brings in the latest installment of the hugely popular “Late Nite Catechism” franchise: Sometimes We Feel Guilty Because We Are Guilty.
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'Late Nite Catechism 2' - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Actress Kimberly Richards injects plenty of good-natured humor into her one-woman performance. The audience reacts with bountiful laughs.
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'The Yiddish Are Coming' - Appause! Magazine
The Yiddish Are Coming was presented in February 2006 at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts. At this time, the show was still in development under the title "Jewsical! The Chosen Musical." It was reviewed by Applause! Magazine.
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'Sister's Christmas Catechism' - San Diego Union-Tribune
...the wonderful improvisations in actor Kathryn Gallagher's performance as Sister go right to the heart of parochial school education in the U.S., 1920-80.
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'Sister's Christmas Catechism' - PrideSource
The good Sister has, and she's back to pack them into Detroit's Century Theatre where her latest adult catechism class endeavors to answer a question that has confounded experts for centuries: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold.
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'Sister's Christmas Catechism' - Pittsburgh City Paper
Richards’ talent at improv is really rather amazing. Even from under a nun’s habit, Richards’ radiant, if slightly prickly, good nature shines through, and her command of the crowd -- and the flow of the evening -- is no small feat.
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'Sister's Christmas Catechism' - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"Sister's Christmas Catechism" opened last week at City Theatre. That's good news for those who believe there's no such thing as too much nostalgia, especially when it returns those believers to their parochial-school classrooms.
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'Late Nite Catechism' - Talkin' Broadway - Los Angeles
Late Nite Catechism is that we folks in the audience have gathered one night in a Catholic school classroom because we all need a little refresher course for one reason or another.
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'Late Nite Catechism' - Talkin' Broadway - Pittsburgh, PA
Whether you're a Catholic school alumn, or a heathen from the public school system, there is much to enjoy in the City Theater's hilarious production of Late Nite Catechism.
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'Late Nite Catechism' - Austin Chronicle
It's funny and perceptive. It skewers Catholicism subtly, but with great affection. No matter your faith, if anything I've written interests you, then I suggest you go for a lesson. Unlike, perhaps, your time in parochial school, you won't regret it.
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'Late Nite Catechism' - New York Times - off-Broadway
The audience of ''Late Nite Catechism'' is her adult class boning up on Roman Catholic doctrine, and she allows no nonsense. Latecomers are fined; gum-chewers get a glare and a tissue; everyone is ordered to stand when called on and to begin every response with ''Sister.''
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'Late Nite Catechism' - Chicago Reader
Late Nite Catechism is refreshingly different from most plays about religion, and those differences make this one-woman show a topnotch comedy.
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'Late Nite Catechism' - Chicago Sun-Times
But "Catechism" isn’t a crazed harangue on the order of Christopher Durang’s "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You" or an exercise in low camp like "Nunsense." As written by Donovan and Vicki Quade, "Catechism" has the warmth and humor of the classics 1950s Second City skits--but from the Irish Catholic side of the tracks.
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