   7/22/2010 - Geva extends the run of Girls Night! News and Press Releases
Rochester’s biggest party of the summer will continue through the 13th of August. Due to popular demand, Geva Theatre Center announces ten additional performances of Girls Night The Musical.
7/21/2010 - Girls Night is definitely one for the ladies! Review
But the less-than-traditional audience that filled the theater was merely a reflection of the show on stage. As the name suggests, "Girls Night" is definitely one for the ladies, although there were a handful of brave men in the crowd on opening night. ("Suckers!" the welcoming voice-over playfully taunted.) On the surface "Girls Night" appears to be a glorified bachelorette party onstage, but at its core, the show is a relatively rousing two-hour celebration of girl power.
7/15/2010 - Girls Night: The Musical on stage at Geva Review
Call your girlfriends and head to Geva Theatre – It's "Girl's Night Out".
That's right. Girls Night: The Musical is now on stage and the party
starts the minute the lights come up on stage. The show will have you dancing in your seat.
7/12/2010 - Summer Gets Hotter at Geva! News and Press Releases
As we are currently experiencing a heatwave in Rochester, I thought it only apropos to talk about the heatwave happening in our Mainstage, namely Girls Night the Musical. Think of it as “Sex in the City” meets “Desperate Housewives” with a little Mamma Mia thrown in for good measure.
6/29/2010 - Girls Night: The Musical, Reviewed by Ron Gross Review
BOTTOM LINE: Our highest recommendation! I’ve never seen an audience enjoy a musical more than at this touching and hilarious romp.
6/25/2010 - 'Girl Talk' follows in the fun footsteps of 'Girls Night' News and Press Releases
"Sonya Carter abandoned a 12-year corporate career with American Express to hit the boards with "Girls Night: The Musical," a tale of friends out for a bit of fun one evening. It played in Wilmington twice, and now Carter will be back Tuesday and Wednesday in another production by the same company, the world premiere of "Girl Talk: The Musical." It's more than girls just wanting to have fun, says Carter. "Every night is a new experience. This show is so different in that it really engages the audience. "
6/25/2010 - A night of 'Girl Talk' News and Press Releases
"Tim Flaherty, the president of Entertainment Events Inc., and Louise Roche, a British playwright, have discovered a theatrical goldmine."
6/25/2010 - 'Girl Talk' makes premiere at Dupont Theater News and Press Releases
"Sonya Carter knows there’s no business like show business. “Growing up, I was that kid who always made everybody sit down and watch me dance and sing,” she said over the phone. But, Carter’s road to a career on the stage came a little later in life."
4/28/2010 - "Girls" is a Bunch of Fun Review
From The Philadelphia Inquirer, By Toby Zinman: The "girls" who came to see Girls Night were every age, shape, size, race, and color. There were even a few guys. A group of 11 high school teachers was sitting next to me. Everybody seemed to have the same good time. The show's unpretentious fun and the talented, unembarrassable women on stage had all of the audience on their feet, clapping, singing, and dancing in the aisles.
4/9/2010 - Theater Review: ‘Girls Night’ at the Temple Theater in Des Moines Review
SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER The cast of “Girls Night: The Musical” tell the story of five longtime friends, one of whom is a ghost, and belt out 14 classic songs. (Special to the Register)
2/17/2010 - 'Til Death: Late Night Catechism' gives the audience top billing Review
The line on the accompanying pop-out box says “Play review,” but “’Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism 3” is more an event. The audience is the show.
7/27/2009 - GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL at the Downstairs Cabaret at Sofia's Review
When the whole audience joins in to chant "I Will Survive," you realize that "Girls Night: The Musical" is not just a silly bachelorette-flavored night on the town. It's a rally. It involves the audience deeply and sincerely in a way that the current Broadway production of "Hair," in its earnestness, can only envy.
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.
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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Stage Review: Kimberly Richards takes command as feisty nun in 'Catechism'Thursday, December 14, 2006 By Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburghers sometimes being a step behind the curve, there may be some who haven't yet caught on to the "Late Nite Catechism" phenomenon over at City Theatre on the South Side. The current installment, helping us laugh our way through the holidays, is "Sister's Christmas Catechism." It follows "Late Nite Catechism" and its sequel, "Sometimes We Feel Guilty Because We Are Guilty," one or the other of which has been packing the house at City for some 60 weeks since the first one opened for what was expected to be a brief run in April 2005. Playing Sister for all but nine of those weeks has been Kimberly Richards, Pittsburgh-born, California-bred, Catholic school-educated and San Francisco- and Las Vegas-trained. I stress all that because Richards plays a nun with such feisty assurance that I'm sure there are audience members who assume she really is a nun, albeit the funniest, smartest most flexible one they've ever met. "Sister's Christmas Catechism" is just that, a brush-up course on the Catholic version of the Christmas story, with plenty of class participation (Sister takes no guff but she hands out lots of prizes) culminating in a living nativity scene. I reviewed the show when it was first at City, this time last year, in the 110-seat Hamburg Studio. I went back this year because I had a good time then and I wanted to see how it would do on the 275-seat mainstage. It loses nothing. Richards has complete command of the larger room, and Sister, like Santa Claus, sees you every moment and knows instantly whether you're whispering to your neighbor, showing too much decolletage or chewing gum. All these venial sins ("gateway sins" she calls them: "first talking in class, then insider trading") are punished, usually with a dollar fine, although if you really make an ass of yourself you may end up playing that role in the nativity scene. Tony Ferrieri's grade school set has metastasized nicely, sending tributary garlands and strings of colored lights snaking throughout the auditorium. About 10 seats are right up front, but sitting there holds no fear as long as you behave. Much of Sister's routine is ad lib, playing off whatever the audience provides, but there is also a script, full of Christmas factoids, good advice ("it's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice") and tart references to "your lesser, spin-off religions." Call it Christmas comic relief, a mix of the sacred and profane, the Bible and pop culture. Its trick is to let us have it both ways, laughing at our rituals and memories while celebrating them, too. I don't think you have to be Catholic (I'm not) to have a great time. And when the carefully cast crew of audience members emerges to form a living nativity scene, lovingly costumed in assorted rummage sale specials (bathrobes, shower curtains, lampshades and toilet covers), there is uproarious laughter but also a kind of transcendence, when silliness shines with something sweetly serious about our common humanity.
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