New musicals are the most difficult for Berkshire theatres to put together successfully for the simple reason that there are twice as many creative voices to be heard and not much more time for hashing it all out than for a simple play. Just scan the credits in the program…

Billy never learned to sign: his parents were against it. But into his life comes Sylvia, who is trying to learn as her hearing fades, and everything comes into question.

With nonstop singing, dancing and kung-fu action spread across a modest sized stage by twelve hyper-active performers, Broadway Bounty Hunter is new, different and utterly delightful.

Tom Holloway’s deeply emotional play employs both sensitive direction and superb acting to draw its audience into the question of terminal illness and unassisted suicide.

Bei-Bei Guan sang the title role superbly, in this tragic opera where a Navy captain who leaves his “wife” and child behind after a fraudulent marriage returns at last.

When a 20-year-old play still seems fresh today, one has to wonder if out current political scene has regressed as much as it has advanced. Wendy Wasserstein was prescient in her observation of misogynistic politics. Picture: Diane Davis and Saidah Arrika Ekulona. Photograph T. Charles Erickson.

A cosmologist and a beekeeper exchange objective ideas, and infuse them with emotional resonance.

A personal tale that is at once harrowing, hilarious and uplifting, Stephen Wolfert has created a scalding narrative out of a chance encounter with Shakespeare’s “Richard III.”