The Mission of ShirleyArts! is to sponsor and promote the visual and performing arts for education and enjoyment.

We are located in Shirley, a small town in north central Massachusetts, only an hour west of Boston.

Our mailing address is  ShirleyArts! PO Box 49, Shirley, MA 01464.

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Please join us for the following amateur and professional classes, events, and performances.

*****  Upcoming Events  *****

The Summer Children's Musical will be Seussical Jr. and will rehearse Mondaythrough Friday afternoons, July 6th - 24th. Auditions have been held and the cast has been chosen, but we could still use more little Whos and medium sized Wickersham Brothers. Participants must have finished first grade and may be as old as 17. Performances will be July 24 and 25. Tuition is $125. Scholarship help is available thanks to the girls of SAFA.

Contact Director Meredith Marcinkewicz with your questions at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Seussical Jr performances will be Friday July 24th at 7 p.m. and Saturday July 26th at 3:00 p.m.

Admission is $5 in advance and $8 at the door.

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We hope to do  Wizard of Oz in the Fall with both adults and children in the cast. Rehearsals will be Tuesday and Sunday evenings through September and October, with performances the first weekend in November. We need many people to volunteer for committees in order to make this happen. Please email us if this might interest you.

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**************************************  Recent Happenings  ***************************************************

The Children's Spring Musical was Tall Tales and Heroes and was performed at the Lura A. White School on Friday May 29th. Family and friends loved watching the young performers tell the tales and sing the songs. Favorite parts were the jokes, the lumberjacks, and the finale of telling who their personal heroes were and singing God Bless the USA

The Middle School Drama Club presented Middle School Monologues at the Mass High School Drama Guild Middle School Festival in Tewksbury on Saturday May 9th. They were praised for bringing familiar middle school scenes to the stage and received a bronze medal. Given special recognition for their portrayals were Julie Maillet and Stevie Schaeffer.

Moonlight and Valentino was performed on April 4th and 5th by a wonderful cast of four women and one man at the Shirley Middle School Auditorium. The audience was emotionally touched by the problems faced by these women and the way that they supported each other and were changed.

Music and Movement Classes for children in Kindergarten and Grade One had their class recital on March 3rd in the Lura A. White School Gym. The little ones did a great job listening and following directions. They learned how to move many body parts and how to move slowly and quickly and with different rhythms. They delighted the audience with their enthusiasm.

In late January, our teen group presented the musical comedy fairy tale "Ain't No Such Thing as a Bogle." The audience enjoyed both the music and comedy brought to them by these talented teens.

*****  Useful Information  *****

Warning - Please do not go bymapquest! For accurate directions to the Shirley Middle School, where many of our events take place, click here.

Possibilities - If you know a professional or amateur class or performance that you would like to see brought to Shirley,

For a production proposal form, contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

SCHOLARSHIPS to arts events and arts classes are available through ShirleyArts! for All, a Youth Ventures program. ShirleyArts!will also be raising money to help SMS band students with their instrument rentals. Did you know that band and drama students do better on their SAT's than math or science majors ? Please help us support the arts.

Some ShirleyArts! productions receive financial support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council through the local Shirley Cultural Council. This help is much appreciated.

For a History of our past productions, Click Here.

For membership information, Click Here.

Note that we are a 501(C)(3) non-profit corporation and all your donations are tax-deductible.

Officers for ShirleyArts! for 2009 are President David Jerome, Treasurer John Rounds, Artistic Director Meredith Marcinkewicz, and Board Members Marcey Jerome, Kathryn Lyon, Lela Male, Laurie Marcinkewicz, and Rita Paradis.