Click here to Support our Summer Shakespeare Festival! 🌞
Click here to Support our Summer Shakespeare Festival! 🌞
Upcoming Events
This July and August MidCoast Shakes will hold our inaugural Summer Shakespeare Festival! We are thrilled to bring Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to the Belfast community with five shows over 4 days (July 30th, August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd).
We invite audiences to join us for a very special 2-show day on Saturday August 2nd with a family-fun event at 5pm! Crafts! Puppets! Soundscape workshop! Snacks and much more!
All events are free–donations welcome–so bring a friend, a blanket or chair to sit on, and come join us at Belfast City Park* for one of Shakespeare’s most beloved works and fun for the whole family!
Summer Shakespeare Festival:
*inclement weather location: Belfast Area High School Cafe 25 Lions Way, Belfast, MEPlease check our Facebook page or Instagram profile for day-of weather updates
Four Day Festival Schedule:
Wednesday July 30th – 6:30pm – Twelfth Night (opening night)
Friday August 1st – 6:30pm – Twelfth Night
Saturday August 2nd – 1:00pm – Twelfth Night
– 5:00pm – Family-fun!
– 6:30pm – Twelfth Night
Sunday August 3rd. – 1:00pm – Twelfth Night (closing run)
Free Summer Event–all ages and experiences welcome!
Theater Games + Family Fun!
Join us at The Studio on Saturday, July 26th for theater games, movement + mindfulness activities, and more! Come and go as you like, we’ll be in the studio space from 9:30-11am.
The Belfast Center
9 Field St. Suite 118
Cymbeline
“Cymbeline is a beautiful play about love, loyalty, and forgiveness. But, there are several complex, puzzling elements to contend with and in order for it to shine, the script needs some untangling. I am deeply excited to be partnering with Chris on this adaptation, so Cymbeline can finally get the love it deserves!”
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline is our first development project. MidCoast Shakes is providing development support to theater artist Chris JM Maloney as he works on an original adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s rarer plays. Catherine Haverkampf is spearheading this project, with studio development and staged readings slated for Fall 2025.
We have held our auditions for our Summer Shakespeare Festival production of Twelfth Night in May, 2025–cast announcement coming soon!–we are still seeking to cast two roles, so please click below to learn more and register for auditions!