The 2025 Logan Festival of Solo Performance at 1st Stage

1st Stage is thrilled to announce the annual Logan Festival of Solo Performance, running from September 18 – 28, 2025, presented with generous support from the Revada Foundation. This innovative festival, acclaimed in The Washington Post with “three plays prove the power of one,” will gather celebrated solo performers from across the country for two weeks of performances, workshops, discussions, and events. The 2025 festival will feature three dynamic productions:

SPADURA
Written and Performed by Dahéli Hall
Directed and Produced by Elizabeth Mei-Ling Yng-Wong
Written and performed by Dahéli Hall, an acclaimed comedian, writer, and director residing in Los Angeles, SPADURA unapologetically takes on the baby industrial complex, aging, the physical, emotional, and financial cost of IVF, as well as the unique fertility obstacles faced by Black women in America. Through a mix of stand-up, storytelling, and props, Dahéli includes personal anecdotes about herself, her Filipino husband and her Caribbean parents. She candidly shares her journey trying to conceive their Ja-Haitia-Pino American baby. Her humor and vulnerability make the show unforgettable.

The Jewish Dog
Performed by Adam Meir
Adapted from the novel written by Asher Kravitz
Written and Directed by Yonatan Esterkin
Filtering the darkest, most dramatic period of modern Jewish history, The Jewish Dog offers a view of the Holocaust through the eyes of a canine unusually fascinated by human affairs. Cyrus witnesses firsthand the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. When Nuremberg Laws separate him from his Jewish owners, he is confiscated by the Nazis and employed by the SS as a military concentration camp dog. Directed by Israeli artist Yonatan Esterkin, based on the novel by Asher Kravitz, and featuring Adam Meir as the beloved dog, this performance explores loyalty, identity, and the fine line that separates humanity from animals.

George – Don’t Do That!
Devised and Performed by Catherine Flye
Musical Direction by Joe Walsh
Narrated by Nick Olcott
Join Catherine Flye as she and her friends celebrate the life of the beloved British comedienne Joyce Grenfell, for an evening of witty songs, amusing sketches, anecdotes and reminiscences of the legendary star. This joyful entertainment provides a glimpse into the lives of a host of funny and endearing characters, in music, song and the spoken word.

The Logan Festival of Solo Performance will run September 18-28 with performances of each show as
follows:

SPADURA: Friday, September 19 at 7:30pm; Sunday, September 21 at 5:00pm; Friday, September 26 at 7:30pm; Saturday, September 27 at 7:30pm; Sunday, September 28 at 2:00pm

The Jewish Dog: Thursday, September 18 at 7:30pm; Saturday, September 20 at 7:30pm; Sunday, September 21 at 2:00pm; Saturday, September 27 at 5:00pm; Sunday, September 28 at 5:00pm

George – Don’t Do That!: Saturday, September 20 at 2:00pm; Sunday, September 21 at 7:30pm; Thursday, September 25 at 7:30pm; Saturday, September 27 at 2:00pm; Sunday, September 28 at 7:30pm