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silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Aug 28

DISCOUNTS:
Discounted ticket package for classes of 2025 and 2026 to see the show with a parent

GROUP10 to get a 10% discount on 10 or more tickets

Arrive in a car with 4 or more passengers or on a bike to get a coupon for discounted tickets to our May show (TBA).

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Aug 28

The matinee performance on September 27 will have ASL interpretation by Kris Long and Emily Stemper, and audio description by @kimberlynewtonva.

We will also have performances with virtual captioning on September 21 and 27 (matinee).

#accessibility #asl #audioDescription #captions

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Aug 28

It's a play for everyone who has ever left home or ever will. THE WANTING FOREST follows Aspen, a young woman with a curse, as she tries to find her way in the world, and her mother, Mira, who is learning to live on the other side of the longest shortest time.

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Aug 28

The world premiere of THE WANTING FOREST by @moflunty opens September 19. Get your tickets now!

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Aug 22

Opening September 19. All the details at silkmothstage.com

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The highest truths, universally told, with healing powers

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silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Aug 22

We're heading into the weekend humming, "Each day is a little life / Each night wipes the slate clean."

Make your plans to journey into the forest, where curses and blessings are hard to tell apart, we all make mistakes, and sometimes we need more than one night to wipe the slate clean.

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Aug 22

We're only a few days into rehearsals for THE WANTING FOREST, but we can already tell that this is a special one.

We started the week with movement, exploring how our bodies could tell stories together. We ended with reading the full text and singing through it.

Tree silhouetted against the night sky.

White text overlay reads, "Each day is a little life. Each night wipes the slate clean. The Wanting Forest Silk Moth Stage"

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Apr 4

It's okay if you don't have $10 to spare, times being what they are ("hard and getting harder all the time").

It's really helpful to us if you feed the algorithm by liking, commenting, or sharing with your wealthiest relative.

Icons (thumbs up, heart, speech bubble, sharing arrow, hand under a heart). Text reads: "How can I help? like, comment, share, and GIVE!!

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Apr 4

Early giving starts TODAY. The big event is April 16. You can help us get a head start, and support professional theater in rural Virginia, right now.

To learn more about other wonderful orgs in our area, check out our insta or fb, where we'll be shouting them out all day (most aren't on bsky yet)

A blonde toddler and a teenage boy draw in chalk on the stage.

The text reads "early giving starts TODAY!" Great Community Give is April 16!

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Apr 4

#greatCommunityGive has prizes for most donors and most money raised, in each of three size categories.

This year, we're in the "small" category, and we want to win "most donors." Every donation of $10 or more counts!

www.greatcommunitygive.org/organization...

Six actors standing on the Silk Moth Stage prepare to take their bows.

Text reads: This year, Silk Moth wants to win the prize for Most Donors! (and we're not up against big nonprofits this year, so we have a real fighting chance!). Every donation of at least $10 counts! The organization with the most donors wins $5500!

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Apr 4

Let's make this a record-breaking #greatCommunityGive .

This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, as well as one of our favorite events overall.
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silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Apr 4

Have we got a two-fer for you.
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silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Apr 4

We need your support!
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Actor Heidi Jablonski, wearing overalls and a red shirt, poses on a stump during a performance of THE GROWN-UP. Text reads "Do you want to support us?"

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Apr 4

We know you do!
www.greatcommunitygive.org/organization...

A man and two women are looking at a picture on a phone, waiting for a silk moth show to begin. Text above them reads "Do you want to support your community?"

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Mar 30

Already got yours? Show us what book they're marking. We're always looking for additions to our TBR.
This one just kept Artistic Director Aili Huber and her daughter company through A NATURAL HISTORY OF DRAGONS, by Marie Brennan. It's a fun read. Five stars.

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Mar 30

We love our show promo bookmarks, designed by Board Member Francisco Escalera.

They're stylish and functional. Look for them at various locations around Rockingham and Harrisonburg—and if you want one of your own, hit our DMs.

A hand holding a set of bookmarks, fanned out. They have info about the upcoming Silk Moth shows: The Last Wide Open, May 9-18, and The Wanting Forest, September 19-28. There's a mug, blurry, in the background.

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Mar 29

We commission a new moth every year. We're about to unveil our 2025 moth, and this beautiful tulip tree silkmoth, by local artist Anna Maria Johnson, is going in the vault (... cocoon? ) ...

Get this lovely illustration on a shirt, hat, totebag, or sticker, at: silkmothstage.com/gift-shop

A graphic of our 2024 moth, soaring over the Blue Ridge mountains, with icons of shirts, notebooks, totebags, and more. Text reads: "Last Chance! Old moth is flying away. Grab merch while you can!"

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Mar 20

If you don't know New Bridges, check out the amazing work they are doing to support our immigrant neighbors.

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Mar 20

Awesome meeting yesterday with the fabulous Chris Hoover, Interim Executive Director at New Bridges Immigrant Resource Center.

We were dreaming of how we can work together for mutual support on our upcoming production of THE LAST WIDE OPEN, which features an immigrant story.

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Mar 19

We had a truly fun time, and we are grateful for everyone who came out to play.

(📷 is not from last night - we were busy working! - it's one that Tiffany Showalter Photography took before a show last spring. Same vibe, though).

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Mar 19

We had the most beautiful evening of auditions ever, last night!

Auditions can be stressful, so our goal is always to make them as welcoming as possible. Nature helped us out with beautiful weather, a bald eagle fly-by, and a visit from our 2000-pound neighbors.

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Feb 27

We are holding auditions for both shows. These are paid acting gigs, and we are a great place to work.

Tell your friends!
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An image of 3 people, one of whom is scowling at a script and text that says 'AUDITION FOR US! Silk Moth Stage is hiring actors for our 2025 Season PAID OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTORS'

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Feb 27

Told in poetry, lullabies, and dance, THE WANTING FOREST is a lyrical quest to discover hope beyond trees, selfhood beyond family, and how to unlock the beautiful curse of having (or being) a mother.

Info: silkmothstage.com/current-seas...

The Wanting Forest

Buy tickets now! Our first-ever play for all ages, written especially for Silk Moth Stage, The Wanting Forest, a play with music by Philadelphia playwright Monica Flory, tells the story of Mira and…

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silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Feb 27

In the fall, we're performing the world premiere of THE WANTING FOREST, written especially for the Silk Moth Stage by Monica Flory running September 19-28 and 27-28.

Program graphic for The Wanting Forest: A brown border, around a light green background, with leafy trees growing from the top and bottom.

at the center is a red heart.

Text reads: "The Wanting Forest by Monica Flory"

September 19-21 & 27-28
Music at 5 pm - Play at 6 pm

Matinees
September 20 & 27
Music at 12 pm - Play at 1 pm

silkmothstage.com @silkmothstage.com · Feb 27

A play for anyone who has ever had a hard time finding the words to share their love.

THE LAST WIDE OPEN explores near-hits, near-misses, second chances, and, in the playwright’s words, “the mystical ways the universe conspires to bring us all together.”