As one schooled early in life by nuns — some of them pretty forbidding — I’ve followed their journeys through the culture landscape with keen interest.

In 1979, the young Christopher Durang weighed in with a dark and blistering satire, “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You.’’ In the mid-1980s came a much sunnier depiction of the good sisters in “Nunsense,’’ a hugely popular musical comedy that, to this day, always seems to be playing somewhere.