Shelburne Falls Memorial Hall Association

08/18/2026

Attention, Potholers! THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY we will be showing SUMMER OF SOUL (OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)

A documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, SUMMER OF SOUL has received particular praise for the restoration of the footage - including performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Gladys Knight & the Pips and many more. Premiering at Sundance in 2021, this film won both the Grand Jury prize and the Audience Award in the documentary categories and at the Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards, it won in all 6 categories it was nominated. Directed by Questlove of The Roots fame. PG-13, 1hr 58.

🎵 MUSIC BEFORE THE MOVIES @ 7pm 🎶

FRIDAY: Abdul Baki
SATURDAY: The Mill River Rounders

🎟️ TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
$6 Adults, $4 Kids 12 & under
🍿 POPCORN STILL $1

08/08/2026

tonight & tomorrow evening THE WOMEN

An unusual treat, and a significant milestone in cinema history: all 130+ parts are played by women. Written by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, based on Clare Booth Luce’s hit Broadway play, it celebrates sharp tongued dialogue, catfighting and conniving. Starring Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard AND Rosalind Russell (to name a few.) Directed by George Cukor. 1939 Unrated IMDB 7.7 133 min

Music Before the Movies Each Night, courtesy of

Friday: Michael Nix, new classic banjo project

Saturday: Whisperholler, foot-stomping Americana

Tickets available at the door - $6 adults, $4 children under 12. Cash only.

🎵 Music starts at 7pm
🎞️ Movie starts at 7:30
🍿 Popcorn still just $1

PLEASE NOTE: WE HAVE BEGUN TO INCLUDE CAPTIONING ON FRIDAY NIGHTS, NO CAPTIONS ON SATURDAYS

07/24/2026

this FRIDAY & SATURDAY come see at the newly renamed Shelburne Falls Theater at Memorial Hall. Robert Duvall won his only Oscar for his role as Mac Sledge, a country singer putting his life back together. A moving story of hope and redemption, it is one of his greatest roles. Duvall does his own singing and even wrote two of the songs! (1983, PG)

🎟️ Tickets available at the door ($6 adult, $4 children under 12. Cash only)
🍿 Popcorn $1 as always

Movie begins at 7:30 but join us for…

🎶 MUSIC BEFORE THE MOVIES @ 7pm each night

Friday - The Porch Step Sisters (harmonic, folky duet)
Saturday - Colin & Friends (electric potpourri covers)

06/20/2026

05/27/2026

This Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM!
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz.

Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell.

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

All Tickets at the Door
Sung In Spanish
Estimated Run Time 2 Hrs 50 Mins, With One Intermission

05/24/2026

Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz.

Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell.

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

All Tickets at the Door
Sung In Spanish
Estimated Run Time 2 Hrs 50 Mins, With One Intermission

05/16/2026

05/03/2026

For those who missed our public screening at Memorial Hall here is another chance to watch this splendid documentary about our libraries!

From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite the age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.

Watch Independent Lens | PBS' Free for All: The Public Library on the PBS YouTube channel and PBS app, FREE for the month of May!

Stream now: https://to.pbs.org/3Pi4eFT

04/30/2026

Eugene Onegin
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
All Tickets at the Door
Sung In Russian
Estimated Run Time 4 Hrs 5 Mins, With Two Intermissions

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide on May 2. Baritone Iurii Samoilov is the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph). This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.