(VINELAND, NJ) -- Cumberland Players presents Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn from September 19-21, 2025. What will endure when the cataclysm arrives – when the grid fails, society crumbles, and we’re faced with the task of rebuilding?
Anne Washburn’s imaginative dark comedy is an animated exploration of how the pop culture of one era might evolve into the mythology of another.
Performances take place Friday, September 19 at 7:00pm; Saturday, September 20 at 1:00pm & 7:00pm; and Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 2:00pm. Tickets are available for purchase online. The theater is located at 66 E Sherman Avenue in Vineland, New Jersey.
The play won the 2015 Whiting Award for Drama and was nominated for a 2014 Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway play.
Anne Washburn’s play's include Mr. Burns, 10 out of 12, Antlia Pneumatica, A Devil At Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Internationalist, The Small, Little Bunny Foo Foo and transadaptations of Euripides' Orestes and Iphigenia In Aulis. Awards include a Whiting Award, a PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Theater Award, an Alpert Award, the Guggenheim, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges and Chochiqq, and is an alumna of New Dramatists and 13P.
Cumberland Players began as the Little Theatre of Vineland in February 1946. In its inaugural season, the group presented a season of three one-act plays. The works were so well received by audiences that by October, The Little Theatre of Vineland was chartered with a dedicated membership of fourteen people. These founding members built the organization from the ground up, spending countless hours converting an old church house into the building (c. November 1953) that people have all come to know and love.
The mission has remained the same since their inception: to encourage the public’s appreciation of theatre and to make accessible the study of its various aspects. Cumberland Players takes great pride in making theatre accessible to all members of the community they serve by having a successful Kids at CP program, currently operating in its 23rd season, and by always keeping ticket prices accessible for the Everyman. As an organization of volunteers, they pride themselves on the ability to give back to those who give so graciously to them through scholarship opportunities for high school seniors in the area.
