Montague Shakespeare Festival

01/28/2026

Starting in in a few minutes — 6:00 PM Eastern (Zoom). SONNETS
This is not a lecture. This is practice.

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FU8H7u1RS-q2lFtYDn24YA

The Montague Shakespeare Festival is hosting weekly Zoom sessions for anyone who wants to speak Shakespeare out loud (actors welcome, from anywhere). We start with sonnets and build from there.

We will “speak the speech trippingly on the tongue,” letting our own discretion be the tutor.

Drop-in, supportive, practical.
Come ready to participate (no one gets ambushed).

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FU8H7u1RS-q2lFtYDn24YA

10/08/2025

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!” — King Lear, Act III, Scene II

From the Montague Shakespeare Festival’s Paper Crown, premiered October 3, 2025 at Unity Park in Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

In this haunting excerpt, Craig Pinder — a distinguished new member of MSF and veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Globe Theatre London, and the original Les Misérables cast — unleashes Lear’s storm speech beneath a gathering sky. Around him, the MSF ensemble conjures the tempest itself: voices become wind, thunder, and rain - rhythm and breath becomes the storm that rages about us and within.

Alongside Craig Pinder’s storm-tossed Lear, Paper Crown features a wonderful ensemble of MSF artists: Kaitlin Creed Boyce, returning with fierce clarity; E.W. Sheets, channeling raw conviction; Jessica Knox, weaving her voice again as Hecate, and Chloe Olwell, clear and defiant as Joan of Arc bound for the flames.

Every word is Shakespeare’s. Every sound is human.

Live in the open air as part of Paper Crown — a 20-minute tour-de-force forged in the MSF Labs, where Shakespeare’s kings rise and fall, ghosts cry out, and witches chant to the pulse of a raw live electric guitar.

Montague Shakespeare Festival
The crown is paper, but it lies heavy on the head that wears it.

https://www.montagueshakespearefestival.com

09/30/2025

“Paper Crown”
A new work from Montague Shakespeare Festival.

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

Twenty minutes of Shakespeare cut to the bone: kings undone, witches chanting, Joan condemned, and ghosts demanding vengeance.

Sit upon the ground.
Hear the death of kings.
Witches chant, ghosts return, Joan burns.
Every word is Shakespeare.
Every crown is paper.

Actors:
Craig Pinder • Kaitlin Creed Boyce • E.W. Sheets • Jessica Knox • Chloe Olwell • Kenny Butler

Friday, October 3 • 7:15 PM
Unity Park, Turners Falls (across from Nova Motorcycles)

Part of the Great Ghouls Night Market (5–9 PM)
Free & outdoors — come join the revel.

05/15/2025

Fresh off her powerful performance as Lady Macbeth at the Montague Shakespeare Festival, Linda Tardif returns to the stage spectacularly and this time in the title role of Orlando. Our brilliant friends at Eggtooth Productions are presenting Sarah Ruhl’s bold, funny, and breathtaking adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel for one night only!

🗓️ May 17 at 7:30 PM
📍 Academy of Music Theatre, Northampton, MA
🎟️ Tickets here:
https://aomtheatre.com/aom_event/orlando-adapted-from-the-original-by-virginia-woolf-by-sarah-ruhl/

A celebration of gender, love, time, and transformation, Orlando is a theatrical gem—and with Linda Tardif at the center, you can expect a performance filled with passion, wit, and undeniable power.

Featuring: Kyle Boatwright, Lindel Hart, Rich Vaden, and Broadway’s Joe Dulude II as Queen Elizabeth
Directed by Linda McInerney| Costumes by Christina Beam | Lighting by John Bechtold | Stage Manager: Nikki Beck

🌈 This Eggtooth Productions presentation supports the Academy’s new LGBTQ+ teen program, made possible by the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Plum Boutique.

Don't miss this radiant night of theatre with Linda and our friends at Eggtooth, who keep pushing the art forward.

04/24/2025

Featuring Linda Tardif (our very own Lady Macbeth) in the title role!
Eggtooth Productionstions brings Orlando to life in a dazzling, time-traveling romp through centuries, genders, and identities. Adapted by Sarah Ruhl from Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel, this one-night-only performance is equal parts hilarious, heartfelt, and unforgettable. Featuring Linda Tardif (our very own Lady Macbeth) in the title role!Eggtooth Productions brings Orlando to life in a dazzling, time-traveling romp through centuries, genders, and identities. Adapted by Sarah Ruhl from Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel, this one-night-only performance is equal parts hilarious, heartfelt, and unforgettable. A true theatrical experience not to be missed.

Saturday, May 17, 7:30pmAcademy of Music, NorthamptonDon’t miss this magical night of theatre!

Orlando is coming to Northampton for one night only…you don’t want to miss it!

Saturday, May 17, 7:30pm
Academy of Music, Northampton

https://aomtheatre.com/aom_event/orlando-adapted-from-the-original-by-virginia-woolf-by-sarah-ruhl/

04/07/2025

Packed house for Macbeth on a Sunday afternoon. A beautiful audience. It was an honor to perform for you today!

04/06/2025

🌒 “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” 🧙‍♀️
It’s your LAST chance to witness the dark enchantment of Macbeth at the Montague Shakespeare Festival—this Sunday, April 6 @ 2PM at the Shea Theater.

We are grateful to Greenfield Savings Bank for supporting local arts and helping us bring Shakespeare’s magic to life. Thanks to your generosity, the Weird Sisters got their spellbooks—and their spotlight.

🪄 Final weekend.�🔮 Final curtain.�🎟️ Get tickets: montagueshakespearefestival.com

Greenfield Savings Bank

Come be part of the Montague Shakespeare Festival—where the Bard is back and the witches are watching...

04/05/2025

🎭 TONIGHT AND TOMORROW ONLY 🎭
Macbeth storms the stage at the Shea Theater Arts Center — and you do not want to miss this.
Raw power. Fragile humanity. A supernatural world or manipulated personalities?

Directed by Nia Lynn—straight from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Globe—this is Shakespeare stripped down, physically charged, and urgently alive.

​​"What's done is done."
— Act III, Scene II

🕯️ Saturday, April 5 @ 7:30PM
🌒 Sunday, April 6 @ 2:00PM
🪄 Final weekend.

🔮 One chance to witness the magic.
🎟️ Tickets here
montagueshakespearefestival.com

Come be part of the Montague Shakespeare Festival—where the Bard is back!

04/01/2025

Three powerful performances. Three full houses. One unforgettable weekend.
Huge congratulations to our incredible cast, crew, and director Nia Lynn for bringing the fire, the fear, and the fragile humanity of Macbeth to life. 🔥⚔️🖤

“When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
— Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1

Thank you to our audiences for showing up and leaning in. More to come next weekend at the Shea Theater!
Tix: montagueshakespearefestival.com
📸 All photos by Ron Mann

03/27/2025

Kaia is a healing-centered creator, space holder and story weaver who is energized and humbled by the capacity of every story to change the shape of what we know to be true. A long-time co-creator and member of the Collective Leadership Team of Survivor Theatre Project, they practice a deep commitment to collective decision-making, feedback seeking, and intersectional feminism. Their recent co-creations include Q***r Poetry Open Mic, Liberation Playback Theatre and Arts for Palestine. Most recently, they performed in Within the Glow alongside their home troupe of troubledours, Human Agenda Theater.

Something Wicked this way comes…….
Get your tickets to Macbeth now:
https://www.montagueshakespearefestival.com/
....
....
....
Brought to you by:

03/27/2025

Something Wicked this way comes in 1 day…….

Get your tickets to Macbeth now:

https://www.montagueshakespearefestival.com/
..
..
..
..
..
..

 Brought to you by: