Theater: New and Noteworthy

Sounds of Silence: the Radio Plays of Beckett and Pinter (IRC at L'Etage Cabaret). A rare chance to hear the broadcast works of two modern greats. Sunday only.

Love's Labour's Lost (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival). Three guys swear off women. Yeah, right. Starts Wednesday through Aug. 7.

Nice Work If You Can Get It (Upper Darby Performing Arts Center). A gala Gershwin review recalling the golden age of musicals. Friday and Saturday and Aug. 5 and 6.

On the Road Again (Act II Playhouse, Ambler). This popular two-hand comedy returns to poke fun at summer vacations. Starts Wednesday through Aug. 27.

Reviewed by Bill Chenevert (B.C.), Ellen Dunkel (E.D.), Hugh Hunter (H.H.), Julia M. Klein (J.M.K.), Wendy Rosenfield (W.R.), Jim Rutter (J.R.), David Patrick Stearns (D.P.S.), John Timpane (J.T.), Alexandra Villarreal (A.V.), and Toby Zinman (T.Z.).

Blithe Spirit (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival). Nöel Coward's look at love on Earth and beyond the grave. Through Aug. 7.

Boeing-Boeing (Hedgerow Theatre Company, Rose Valley). This 1960s French farce, put on for all its physical humor. Result: nonstop laughter. Through Aug. 21. - J.R.

Broadway on Butler (Act II Playhouse, Ambler). A celebration of the great Broadway composers. A great tribute to an American art form. Ends Sunday. - H.H.

Comedy of Errors (Delaware Shakespeare Festival, Rockwood Park, Wilmington). Shakespeare's farce of mistaken identities - and mistaken motives. Ends next Sunday.

Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope (New Freedom Theatre). Reset in Philadelphia, this 1971 Broadway hit concerns the African American experience, including slumlords, student protests, and feminism. Ends Saturday.

I Am Not My Motherland (Orbiter 3; Lantern Theater Company's St. Stephen's Theater). A Palestinian American surgeon and her Israeli American resident botch a life-saving operation. A searing exploration of the notion of truth. Ends next Sunday. - A.V.

The Little Mermaid (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, DeSales University). The ocean can't contain a mermaid curious about the world beyond her home. Through Aug. 6.

The Producers (Broadway Theatre of Pitman, N.J.). Max and Leo launch a bomb of a show - on purpose. Through Aug. 7.

Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash (People's Light, Malvern). A retrospective of one of the godfathers of Americana. Through Aug. 14.

Roseburg (New City Stage Company). A politically minded new play, for this political season, about gun control in 1968 - and now. Very effective, with themes that are eerily, distressingly topical. Ends next Sunday. - B.C.

Sex With Strangers (Cape May Stage). Laura Eason's Off-Broadway hit about a blogger who tracks down his idol at a bed-and-breakfast, and sex and much else ensues. Ends Friday.

The Taming of the Shrew (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, DeSales University). Shakespeare's knockabout comedy about the marriage of true opposites. Through Aug. 7.