F
ollowing our 2025-26 season, Burbage Theatre Co returns for our 15th Season, subtitled Past is Prologue.
From the classically comedic to the immediately exigent, each play examines the past as a reflection of our present and asks how our present actively shapes our future. This highly engaging, entertaining, and thought-provoking season is perfectly suited to our intimate, 77-seat Wendy Overly Studio Theatre in Pawtucket, RI.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
by William Shakespeare
directed by Stephen Thorne
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a sparkling comedy of love, wit, and second chances, where old rivalries, lingering misunderstandings, and carefully guarded reputations shape the lives of those caught between the past and the future. With humor, heart, and unexpected twists, the play reminds us that while the past may set events in motion, it does not have to dictate how the story ends.
Sept 17 - Oct 11
with Alison Russo as Beatrice
& Jeff Church as Benedick
CHEAP
Moliere's 'The Miser' Reimagined
by Margaret Melozzi
directed by Anne Scurria
Inspired by Molière’s classic comedy The Miser, Cheap follows a family trapped in the orbit of a matriarch whose obsession with wealth outweighs his capacity for love, trust, or generosity. As greed, deception, and competing desires collide, children scheme for independence, lovers fight for their futures, and every relationship is tested by the cost of putting money above people. This sharp new adaptation reveals that while human nature may remain stubbornly familiar, each generation has the opportunity to challenge the values it inherits and decide what is truly worth holding onto.
Nov 19 - Dec 6
WORLD PREMIERE
Burbage's 5th partnership
with WomensWork Theatre
Collaborative
THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE
by Julia Cho
George is a man consumed with preserving and documenting the dying languages of far-flung cultures. He is desperately trying to save a language from the brink of extinction. The last two speakers of that language, a married couple, will never speak to each other again. While, closer to home, language is failing him. He doesn’t know what to say to his wife Mary to keep her from leaving him, and can’t decipher the language of deep feeling between him and his lab assistant, Emma.
Winner 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Jan 21 - Feb 14
RHODE ISLAND PREMIERE
A Tour of the Permanent Collection
in the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, or just
THE ANTIQUITIES
by Jordan Harrison
At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are fiercely committed to bringing a lost civilization to life again: What were humans really like? What did they wear, what did they eat, how did they die out? By casting us into the far future, Jordan Harrison’s new play gives us an uncanny view of the present moment, as we straddle the analog world that was and the post-human world to come.
Mar 11 - Apri 4
RHODE ISLAND PREMIERE
COPENHAGEN
by Michael Frayn
In 1941, German physicist Werner Heisenberg goes to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. Together they revolutionized atomic science in the 1920s, but now they are on opposite sides of a world war and on the precipice of contributing to the creation of the world’s first weapon of mass destruction. As the two men—and Bohr's wife, Margrethe—revisit that pivotal encounter from beyond the grave, they wrestle with memory, morality, friendship, and the profound consequences of scientific discovery. Blending history, philosophy, and human drama, the play asks whether we can ever truly know the past—or whether every attempt to understand it reveals as much about ourselves as the events we seek to explain.
Winner 2000 Tony Award for Best Play
May 20 - June 13
starring
Two-time Grammy Award-winning
storyteller Bill Harley as Niels Bohr
Individual Tickets
Preview Performances
$15
General Admission
$35
Students
$15
High School Students
Any and all rush tickets are available to High School Students for FREE.