After a 2.5-year absence, during which she spent most of that time in the Philippines as a Peace Corps volunteer, Dr. Holly A. Blumner returns to the SMCM campus in spring 2017 and to her TFMS colleagues and students, old and new. Hearty congratulations on a leave of absence well spent, Dr. Blumner, and best Find out more »
Archives for 2016
Auditions for “On Contentious Grounds”
Jan. 18-19, 8:00-10:00 p.m., in the BDT “On Contentious Grounds” combines theater, dance, story-telling, slam poetry, and other genres. We are seeking actors, contemporary and hip hop dancers, and performers of all kinds. The audition will be run as a workshop. There are parts that are only speaking parts or only dancing parts, but students Find out more »
Joanne Klein, In Memoriam
Joanne Klein, chair of the department, professor of theater, film, and media studies, and former coordinator of the cross-disciplinary minor in women, gender, and sexuality studies, died October 26, 2016, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, MD, after a short battle with esophageal cancer. Few colleagues and teachers have made such an enormous impact on Find out more »
Tenth Annual TFMS Film Series: Black Films Matter: The L.A. Rebellion
The fall 2016 series featured work of three L.A. Rebellion filmmakers: Zeinabu irene Davis (Spirits of Rebellion), Haile Gerima (Bush Mama), and Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep). The last two pictures are seminal, celebrated films of the movement, both about the Black urban experience in the Watts neighborhood of south Los Angeles. Davis’s Spirits of Rebellion is Find out more »
Auditions, “The Marriage of Figaro,” September 6-7, in the BDT
WHAT: Auditions, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO WHEN: Tuesday & Wednesday, September 6-7 TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., both days WHERE: Bruce Davis Theater, MH It’s a really BIG SHOW! A cast of 21! Looking for clowns, fast-talkers, wits, lovers young and old(er), movers, shakers, dancers, musicians, and those who just want to have a darn’d Find out more »
San Francisco Mime Troupe’s “Freedomland”
October 26 & 27 @ 8PM FREE and open to the public Reservations required. Seating is first-come, first-served. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall Fine Arts Center A door is blown off its hinges! Into a blasted room of scarred walls and shattered windows, armed with M-16’s, America’s bravest duck and dodge for cover, finally training their Find out more »
TFMS Faculty Statement on the Natty Boh Incident
The undersigned faculty members of the Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland wish to speak out publicly against recent intolerant and threatening behavior on campus. Our department includes, as part of its mission, creating works of theater, performance, dance, and media that educate our students and enrich and Find out more »
In the Bruce Davis Theater, “Machinal,” April 20-24. Reservations, call 240-895-4243 or email boxoffice@smcm.edu
Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 expressionist masterpiece, MACHINAL, is based on the highly publicized trial of Ruth Snyder, who was accused of conspiring with a lover to murder her husband. It follows the central character, an “ordinary young woman,” through nine episodes as she tries to navigate women’s limited options in a mechanized, dehumanizing world obsessed with Find out more »
“Striptease / Catastrophe” has ended its successful run in the BDT!
From the late Polish playwright Sławomir Mrożek (1930-2013), STRIPTEASE is political satire: a tale of two men, a thinker and an activist, both similarly dressed and with matching briefcases, trapped in what appears to be a prison. In what amounts to a vaudeville routine, they try to escape their circumstances by convincing each other he’s Find out more »
Performing in the Bruce Davis Theater, “Striptease” / “Catastrophe,” March 2-6
From the late Polish playwright Sławomir Mrożek (1930-2013), STRIPTEASE is political satire: a tale of two men, a thinker and an activist, both similarly dressed and with matching briefcases, trapped in what appears to be a prison. In what amounts to a vaudeville routine, they try to escape their circumstances by convincing each other he’s Find out more »