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Frequent asides are the trademark of this play, as O’Neill voices the thoughts of his characters on the fly, in the midst of their lives.

Rockville Little Theater’s production of Byrony Lavery’s Frozen provides rich opportunities for thinking and talking about justice, responsibility, remorse and forgiveness, and recovering from the most terrible blows life has to offer.

Riverside Dinner Theater in Stafford, Virginia, provides a faithful, competent, and often polished reproduction of the 1998 Broadway revival of the Kander and Ebb musical, Cabaret, a show that has always had moments of greatness along with noteworthy flaws.

The jazzmen of Warren Leight’s 1999 Tony-winning play, Side Man, have come to see themselves as the last, dying remnant of a music to which their lives have been passionately, even obsessively, committed.

In Arena’s satisfying production of Ah, Wilderness!, we can be sure that this lovers’ moon is not one for the misbegotten.

The only fault I can find with RCP’s presentation of the show is that they didn’t schedule it over the Valentine’s Day weekend.

“But soft, what light through yonder widow breaks?” In Aldersgate Church Community Theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet, it is the blue-white glow of an iPod screen.

Theater conventions have changed a great deal in the past three-quarters of a century. A show so fixed in its own time and style of play construction as HCW may not be able to play successfully in 2012 at all.

For Stoppard fans, the chance to see Hapgood is welcome, even if the view is not one of Stoppard at his best.

It is gratifying to see a splendid production of one of Sondheim’s greatest shows by a first-tier community theater.