Theater: New and Noteworthy

Betrayal (Drama Group, Allens Lane Theatre, Mount Airy). The ultimate nosy-neighbors drama. Friday through May 21.

Buzzer (Theatre Exile). Race, danger in the street, and personal and neighborhood transitions. Thursday through May 28.

Fixed (Passage Theatre Company, Trenton). High school vows, mental illness, dark humor. Thursday through May 21.

Intimate Apparel (McCarter Theatre, Princeton). Pulitzer-winner Lynn Nottage's play on the working life and women's place. Friday through June 4.

Men Are Dogs (Old Academy Players). Six women, two men, and therapy sessions. Sunday, and Friday through next Sunday.

Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Beacon Theatre Productions). Adaptation of Conan Doyle's cowritten 1899 dramatization of the climactic Holmes tale. Through May 7.

The White Devil (Philadelphia Artists' Collective). John Webster's superb tragedy of betrayal, violence, and lust. Wednesday through May 20.

Reviewed by Tirdad Derakhshani (T.D.), Jim Rutter (J.R.), David Patrick Stearns (D.P.S.), and John Timpane (J.T.).

Camelot (Broadway Pitman Theatre). Mallory's knights and damsels, Lerner and Loewe's great tunes. A game production, great voices, but the musical is a little creaky these days. Through May 14. - J.R.

Dr. Capulet Speaks (Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave.). The Philadelphia College of Physicians and social attitudes toward women. Ends Sunday.

Equus (Forge Theater, Phoenixville). Obsessions, deep-seated pathologies, and the wild beauty of beasts. Ends Sunday.

Gumshoe (New Paradise Laboratories/Free Library). Seven "agents" in a mystery involving the Free Library and an Edgar Allan Poe manuscript. Through May 7.

Hand to God (Philadelphia Theatre Company). Boy meets puppet, and their relationship takes crazy directions. Hilarious, delightfully demented - but falters when it tries for deep meaning. Ends Sunday. - T.D.

Happy Birthday (1812 Productions). Bernard decides to have a birthday party for his mistress - with his wife in attendance. Bad idea. Through May 21.

Hetty Feather (Delaware Theatre Company). A feisty young orphan with an intrepid imagination embarks on an adventure to find her true home. Through May 14.

The Importance of Being Earnest (Walnut Street Theatre). One of the wittiest plays ever written, poorly served by an unsubtle production. Ends Sunday. - T.D.

Jerry's Girls (Walnut Street Theatre, Independence Studio on 3). Nostalgic revue of the songs of Jerry Herman (Mame; Hello, Dolly!). Great voices, great costumes, musty songs. Through July 2. - D.P.S.

The Light Princess (Arden Theatre Company). A teenager has no gravity of any kind - including no feelings for others as she floats in the air. Through May 28.

The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary (Curio Theatre Company). A comic send-up of the Flaubert novel, created by the British troupe Peepolykus. Thursdays through Saturdays through May 20.

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (People's Light). A dignified china rabbit embarks on an epic journey from a child's arms to worlds beyond. Through June 4.

The Prisoner of Zenda (Hedgerow Theatre). A send-up of the old chestnut, in a genre you could call "meta-pulp." A true crowd-pleaser. Ends Sunday. - J.T.

Sisters of Swing (Montgomery Theater). Revue of the hits and career of the Andrews Sisters. Through May 14.

Swallow (Inis Nua). Stef Smith's stark, startling play about loneliness and connection. Through May 14.

West Side Story (Media Theatre). Warring street gangs and an unlikely romance. Through June 11.

White (Theatre Horizon). A comic look at art, race, and imposture from award-winner James Ijames. Through May 21.