Department of Theatre and Film

2024-2025 Theatre and Film Season

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The 4th Annual Festival of New Student Works

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.

Description
Plays, films and other works created by UToledo theatre and film students. #UToledoFestivalStudentWorks

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Jukebox Musical

William Shakespeare’s Classic with Contemporary Music Hits
Adapted and Directed by Matt Foss

Performances

  • Thursday, Apr. 10 at 7:30 p.m. - FREE Community & Campus Preview
  • Friday, Apr. 11 at 7:30 p.m. - OPENING NIGHT
  • 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.

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.”


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Past Seasons


Earlier this season

Bride of Frankenstein movie poster and scene from the film

Halloween Film Screening 

The Bride of Frankenstein

Thursday, Oct. 31 at 7:30 p.m.

UToledo Center for Performing Arts 

This Halloween, The University of Toledo Department of Theatre and Film presents "The Bride of Frankenstein," directed by James Whale.  From 1935, "The Bride of Frankenstein" stars Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester and Colin Clive.


Silent Sky poster image sky full of stars with woman's face faded inSilent Sky

by Lauren Gunderson

Directed by guest director, Brian Sage

#UToledoSilentSky

Performances

  • Thursday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. - FREE Community & Campus Preview
  • Friday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. - OPENING NIGHT
  • 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.

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

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World aids Day Filmmaker Event

Conversations with HIV in the Rust Belt

3 images - Film jacket from Wilhemina's War, red ribbon representing AIDS awareness, and filmmaker June Cross

Special Screening - WILHEMINA’S WAR with Guest Filmmaker, June Cross

Monday, Dec. 2

  • 5:30 p.m. – Welcome and Refreshments
  • 6:30 p.m. – Film Presentation: "Wilhemina’s War"
  • 7:30 p.m. -Panel Discussion with a Question & Answer Session

Description

In celebration of World AIDS Day 2024, the UToledo Department of Theatre and Film, in partnership with the UToledo Health Care Clinic and The Ann Wayson Locher Memorial Fund for HIV Care will screen the 2016 documentary film Wilhemina's War, directed by award-winning filmmaker June Cross.  A panel discussion will follow. 

The film screening will be in the Center for Performing Arts (CPA) Center Theatre, Room 1036.  Admission is FREE.  Reservations can be made by visiting Tix.com (though reservations are not required).

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Last Updated: 1/24/25