2024-2025 Theatre and Film Season
Auditions (2024-25 Season)
SILENT SKY
by Lauren Gunderson
#UToledoSilentSky
Performances
- Thursday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, Nov. 17 at 2:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 10:00 a.m. (morning school performance)
- Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, Nov. 24 at 2 p.m.
Production Program
Description
When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s,
she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins
a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates
projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. As Henrietta,
in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also
take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with
family obligations and the possibility of love. The true story of 19th-century astronomer
Henrietta Leavitt explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific
discoveries when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social
progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly
complications; Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believe in both, and their dedication
changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth. #UToledoSilentSky
World aids Day Film Screening - Film tba
Sunday, Dec. 1 at 2 p.m.
Description
#UToledoAIDSDayScreening
The 4th annual FESTIVAL OF NEW STUDENT WORK
Theatre Performances
- Thursday, Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, Feb. 9 at 2:00 p.m.
Film Screenings
- Friday, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Production Program
Description
Plays, films and other works created by UToledo theatre and film students. #UToledoFestivalStudentWork
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Matt Foss
Performances
- Thursday, Apr. 10 at 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, Apr. 11 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Apr. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, Apr. 13 at 2 p.m.
- Wednesday, Apr. 16 at 10:00 a.m. (morning school performance)
- Thursday, Apr. 17 at 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, Apr. 18 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Apr. 19 at 2 p.m.
- Saturday, Apr. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
NOTE: There will be two Saturday, Apr. 19 performances - no Sunday show.
Production program
Description
Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master play a trick on the fairy queen.
In a recent podcast, Stage Door, director and UToledo theatre professor, Matt Foss, says that the UToledo production will take on a contemporary musical flair.
“It’s less musical than say “Tempest” or “Twelfth Night” - but there’s an inherent theatricality. And so, with our ASCAP license, which allows us to use music in our shows because we’re a not-for-profit and these type of things, we’re going to be using everything from classical songs like, “Paper Moon,” which makes a lot of sense when you think about Bottom and the play-within-the-play. There’s going to be a lot of Taylor Swift, because she’s always singing about moons and midnights and dreams.”