Anyone can write an angry play—all it takes is an active spleen. But only a writer of real talent can write an angry play that remains funny and controlled even in its most savage moments. "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You" confirms that Christopher Durang is just such a writer. In this one-act comedy he goes after the Catholic Church with a vengeance that might well have shocked the likes of either Paul Krassner or Lenny Bruce, and yet he never lets his bitter emotions run away with his keen theatrical sense….

["Sister Mary Ignatius"] is both the most consistently clever and deeply felt work yet by the author of "A History of the American Film" and "Beyond Therapy."… [It] has the sting of a revenge drama, even as it rides waves of demonic laughter. The play is also terribly honest, for Mr. Durang knows...