2025 One-Act Festival
August 8-17, 2025
Four fantastic new works from the brightest local playwrights across the DMV area.
Friends With Guns
by Stephanie Alison Walker, directed by Julia Harris
September 26-October 12, 2025
This new dark comedy explores the complicated issue of gun proliferation when two young liberal couples confront their assumptions about gun ownership. Friends With Guns pulls the curtain back on liberals with guns from a female lens.
Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite
by Molière, directed by Jacqueline Youm
October 31–November 16, 2025
Orgon’s family is up in arms because Orgon and his mother Madame Pernelle have fallen under the influence of Tartuffe, a fraud and vagrant. Tartuffe manipulates Orgon by aping devotion and pretending to speak with divine authority. Enjoy laughs with this Molière classic!
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, directed by Peter Orvetti and Jeff Poretsky
December 12-21, 2025
Experience the magic of A Christmas Carol in a brand-new adaptation written especially for Silver Spring Stage. This fresh retelling of Dickens’ classic holiday tale brings Scrooge, the Spirits, and the true meaning of the season to life in a celebration of hope, redemption, and joy.
Enough To Let The Light In
by Paloma Nozicka, directed by Rob Gorman
January 23-February 8, 2026
Girlfriends Marc and Cynthia spend the night celebrating a milestone, but it quickly devolves into chaos as buried secrets are revealed and lives are irrevocably changed in this mind-bending psychological thriller about love, truth, and the ghosts that won’t let us go.
Coriolanus
by William Shakespeare, directed by Jae K. Gee
March 13-April 5, 2026
Roman general Coriolanus’ military success leads others to encourage her political ambitions, but her arrogance toward common citizens results in her banishment from Rome. In exile, she joins Rome’s enemies and leads them in an attack against her former home.
The Colored Museum
by George C. Wolfe, directed by Nayanna Simone
June 26-July 19, 2025 (no performances July 3-5)
George C. Wolfe’s 1986 classic about the grief, madness, and hope of Black life is a provocative and seriously funny tour of eleven “exhibits” examining toxic narratives about Black American experiences. Wolfe’s satirical sketches look to retire outdated exhibits and make room for the future.