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An annual celebration promoting the D.C. region’s theater scene is returning this month with an expansion to Dulles International Airport.

Theatre Week is set to kick off on Sept. 24 with pop-up performances at Dulles and Reagan National Airport, featuring actors Ben Bogen and Divine Iweha, who have both starred in past shows at Arlington’s Signature Theatre.


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The show will go on at 1st Stage, even as the professional Tysons theater mourns the loss of one of its actors and board members.

William T. Newman Jr. died at his home on Feb. 10, leaving behind a storied legacy as both a civic leader and judge in Arlington and a thespian on both stage and screen.


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For its next act, 1st Stage Theatre in Tysons will get a major face-lift.

The nonprofit theater company is in the midst of a three-year campaign to raise $4 million that will be used to upgrade its home in the Spring Hill Business Center (1524 Spring Hill Road), increase staff pay, expand programming and more.


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The Logan Festival of Solo Performance is returning home this year.

After venturing outdoors to The Boro in 2021, 1st Stage will return to its theater at 1524 Spring Hill Road in Tysons for the sixth iteration of its annual festival celebrating one-person plays.