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T.C. Williams made an impressive effort at Crazy for You. Overall, the production was humorous, and who doesn’t like Gershwin’s music?

Hayfield Secondary School’s appealing rendition of The Children’s Hour was filled with raw adversity and all-pervading heartbreak.

Mount Vernon High School’s production was certainly enjoyable. With the exception of a few scenes, the actors held the audience’s full attention, and executed plot twists with ease.

The performers of Thomas Edison High School produced a fun and enjoyable production of Oklahoma! which you just “can’t say no” to.

Thomas Jefferson High School’s production of Stage Door had energy and bounce, yet the message was very well received.

People who enjoy tuning into the exploits of Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot on the PBS Mystery series will enjoy Little Theater of Alexandria’s take on Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution.

As Holocaust testimony and memoir fade into lore, our new challenge emerges in the first person survival stories of hostages and terrorism.

“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.

While good for several laughs, Port City Playhouse’s production is only scratching the surface of what could be a much more fleshed out show.

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.