Department of Theatre and Film

Past Seasons

Below is a listing of the most recent seasons presented by The University of Toledo Department of Theatre and Film. To see information about the entire season, click on the season name. To see the online program and/or photos for a particular show, click on the name of the show. 

2023/2024 Season

• Film Screening: "Stone Street" by Elspeth kydd (October)
• "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman (November)
• World AIDS Day Screening: "Sister Eileen and Her Boyz, an Hiv in the Rust Belt Story" (December)
• The 3rd Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW STUDENT WORK (February)
• "Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom" by Jennifer Haley (April)

2022/2023 Season

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare (November)
• World AIDS Day Screening, "Black Is, Black Ain't" (December)
• 2023 Festival of New Student Work (February)
• Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau (April)

2021/2022 Season

• Year of the Living Dead (film, October)
• Festival of New Student Work (November)
• Elkshire (February)
• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2020/2021 Season (Virtual – Due to Pandemic)

• World AIDS Day Screening
  “HIV in the Rustbelt” (December)
• 20K Leagues Under the Sea (December)

2019/2020 Season

• 24 Hour Play Festival (September)
• The Jungle (November)
• The Flick (February)
• Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play* (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase* (April)

*This event was not presented publicly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2018/2019 Season

• 24 Hour Play Festival (September)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (November)
• The Pillowman (February)
• Into the Woods (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2017/2018 Season

• 24 Hour Play Festival (September)
• Arcadia (November)
• Proof (February)
• The Tempest (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2016/2017 Season

• Fridays on Film Series (Sept.-Apr)
  • Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup
  • La Grande Illusion
  • Nosferatu
  • Silent Shorts: Chaplin & More
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • The General
  • Experimental Shorts
• The Imaginary Invalid (October)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (November)
• 24 Hour Play Festival (January)
• The King and the Clown (February)
• The Internationalist (March/April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2015/2016 Season

• First Friday on Film Series (Sept.-Apr)
  • The Lady Vanishes
  • Seven Samurai
  • His Girl Friday
  • Breathless
  • Stagecoach
• Henry V (October)
• The Laramie Project (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (January)
• No Exit (February)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (March)
• Little Shop of Horrors (April)

2014/2015 Season

• 50 Years of WOW! (Theatre and Film Department Anniversary – September)
• Film Screening – Brazil (September)
• The Adding Machine (October)
• Miss Julie (November/December)
• Film Screening – Some Like It Hot (January)
• Twelfth Night (February/March)
• Aspiring Filmmakers Showcase (March)
• The Immortals (April)

2013/2014 Season

• Guest Filmmakers – Film Screenings/Workshops
  • Laura Colella
  • Jo Dery
• Fox Hunt/Strip Tease (October)
• Out to Lunch (November)
• Cabaret (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2012/2013 Season

• Orpheus (October) 
• FILM Fridays (Sept.-April)
  • Orpheus
  • Censorship Symposium
  • Honor in the Valley of Tears
  • Do the Right Thing
• Metamorphoses (November)
• Faculty Film Screenings (January-February)
  • Charlene Gilbert
  • Tammy Kinsey
  • Holly Hey
• Three Sisters (February)
• Film/Video Showcase (March)
• Ghost Light (April)

2011/2012 – LOVE GONE WRONG

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (November)
• King Oedipus (February)
• In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play) (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2011/2012 – LOVE GONE WRONG

• FILM Fridays (Sept. – Feb.)
  • Young at Heart
  • Victor, Victoria
  • Tommy
  • Cannibal The Musical
  • The Jazz Singer
  • Truth or Dare
  • Dave Chapelle’s Block Party
  • Pink Floyd’s The Wall
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (November)
• King Oedipus (February)
• New Writers’ Festival (March)
• Film/Video Showcase (March)
• In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play) (April)
• Senior Film Showcase (April)

2010/2011 – IMPRISONMENT

• FILM Fridays (Sept. – April)
  • First Blood
  • Soffel
  • Poison
  • American Me
  • Slam
  • Death (The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.)
  • The 25^th Hour
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence
  • Carandiru
  • Born into Brothels
  • El Machinista (The Machinist)
  • Troop 1500
  • Voices of Witness Africa
  • Prison Town USA

• 12 Angry Jurors (October)
• Labyrinth (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (December)
• The Hothouse (February)
• UTFV Showcase (March)
• The House of Bernarda Alba (April)
• Senior Film Student Showcases (April)

2009/2010 – STYLE & SUBSTANCE

• Documentary Film Series Screenings (August-November)
  • The Corporation
  • Why We Fight
  • Sicko
  • Yes Men Fix the World
  • University, Inc.
• The Doctor in Spite of Himself (October)
• Machinal (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (December)
• Bob Fosse Film Retrospective Screenings (January-April)
  • Sweet Charity
  • Cabaret
  • Lenny
  • All That Jazz
  • Star 80
• Bald Soprano/The Lesson (February)
• Creation/Doomsday: Selections from the Chester Mystery Cycle (April)
• Theatre and Film Alumni Weekend
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2008/2009 – OBSESSION

• Film Faculty Screening (August)
• NextFrame Film Festival (September)
• Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath (October)
• Coronado (October)
• Su Friedrich Screening (November)
• Arabian Nights (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (December)
• Won Kar-Wai Film Series
  • Chung King Express
  • Fallen Angels
• Crumbs from the Table of Joy (February)
• Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood
  (film, April)
• Macbeth (April)
• Senior Film Student Showcases (April)
• F/V Showcase (April)

2007/2008 – VOICES FROM THE MARGINS

• Documentary Films by UT’s Charlene Gilbert (August)
  • Homecoming
  • Children Will Listen
• The Age of Impeachment I: The Crook – Guest Tibor Varszegi
• NextFrame Film Festival (September)
• Top Dog/Underdog (October)
• The Chance of Clairvoyance
  Etudes: A Workshop Performance – Guest Tibor Varszegi
• My Blackbird has Flown Away (November)
• Top Girls (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (December)
• Ubu Rex (February)
• Bat Boy: The Musical (April)
• Mike Majoros Film Screening and Workshop (March)
  • Rolling
  • Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent
• Censorship Symposium (March)
• Senior Film/Video Showcases (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2006/2007 – FACADES AND MASQUERADES

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film August)
• Phantom of the Opera (film September)
• Velvet Goldmine (film September)
• Romeo and Juliet (October)
• The Death of Little Ibsen (October)
• Persona (film November)
• Recovery (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (December)
• Yellow Submarine (film December)
• Cinema Baby Steps (January)
• Andy Warhol Film Series
  • Chelsea Girls (February-March)
  • Outer and Inner Space (March)
• The Misanthrope (February)
• Censorship Symposium (April)
• Senior Film/Video Showcases (April)
• Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (April)
• Annual Film/Video Student Showcase (April)

2005/2006 CONFLICT, COURAGE & COMPASSION

• Sub-Saharan Film Festival (Aug.- Dec.)
  • The Price of Aid
  • Adanggaman
  • Waiting for Happiness
  • Moolade
  • Making of Moolade
• Madcat Women’s International Film Festival Tour (September.)
• Guest Artist Visits (Sept. – Dec.)
  • Tibor Varszegi
  • Szablolcs Szilágy
  • David Diamond
  • Peter Abraham
  • Eric Pfeffinger
• Women of Lockerbie (October)
• Homebody/Kabul (November)
• 1^st Annual 24-Hour Playwriting Festival (December)
• Margaret Mead Film & Video Traveling Festival (January)
• Annie Ruth (January/February)
• Antigone (February)
• Jewelry Store (March)
• 2006 Graduating Film/Video Senior Show Series (April)
• The Dragon (April)
• Annual Student Film/Video Showcase
• Action (April)

2004/2005 A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF SHAKESPEARE

• Staged Readings: (September)
  • Still Life
  • Horatio: An Inquisition
• Contemporary Czech Scenography (exhibit September-October)
• Metaphor & Irony at Work: A Symposium on Czech Theatre Design (October)
• Richard III (November)
• The African Company Presents Richard III (January)
• Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief (February)
• Fortinbras (February)
• The Boys from Syracuse (April)
• Love’s Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean Sonnets (March)
• The 2005 Censorship Symposium (April)
• The Annual Student Film/Video Show (April)

2003/2004 A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS

• Once on this Island (October)
• Arab Film Festival (September-October)
  • Cairo Station
  • Insan
  • A Door in the Sky
  • The Broken Wings
  • The Dupes
• Mercury Seven with Signs Following (Oct.)
• Behind the Mask: An Evening with Paul Lawrence Dunbar (Written/performed by guest artist Ted Lange Oct.-Nov.)
• The Little Clay Cart (December)
• Dancing Wheels (residency – January)
• MadCat Women’s International Film Festival Tour (January)
• Central American Film Week (February)
  Guest artist Roberto King, films/videos from Panama, UT student and faculty films produced in Costa Rica)
• Polaroid Stories (February)
• Faculty Media Show (March)
• Little Eyolf (March)
• Fuddy Meers (April)
• International Censored Films and The 2004 Censorship Symposium (April)
• The Macbeth Project – International Guest Artist Jonas Jurasas (April)
• 12^th Annual Student Film/Video Show

2002/2003 AMERICAN VOICES

• This is Our Youth (October)
• Time Flies (November)
• Funnyhouse of a Negro (Feb./March)
• Fifth of July (April)

2001/2002 VIOLENCE IN CIVIL SOCIETY

• Like Totally Weird (October)
• Kolpert (Nov./Dec.)
• Saved (Feb./Mar)
• Hot ‘n Throbbing (April)