Adults £7 | RHT Friends £5 Do the Fairies sing in Manx?Tunes and stories from the Mooinjer Veggeywith Annie KissackLike stories, music travels down many routes to reach us. What do we know about Manx fairy music and how do we know it? Who were the fortunate few who ventured out into the wilds to find it and bring it home? Join poet and musician Annie Kissack RBV in a fascinating miscellany of folklore, music [read more…]
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 4th March - from 2pm Educated by Tara Westover Tara Westover's journey from an isolated survivalist Mormon upbringing in Idaho to stepping into a classroom at 17 and earning a PhD from Cambridge. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It [read more…]
Tickets £15 / Under 18s £2 Shakespeare’s OTHELLO rages to life like never before in a ‘compelling’ (★★★★ Telegraph) new production starring David Harewood OBE (Homeland, Best of Enemies), Toby Jones OBE (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Detectorists), Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession, Masters of Sex), Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point) and Luke Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob). Directed by Tony Award-winner Tom Morris OBE (War Horse, Dr Semmelweis, The Grinning Man) with music by PJ [read more…]
Tickets:Adult £12Over 65s £10Under 18s £5 Legion Players and Rushen Players present an evening of theatre raising funds for the benefit of Alzheimer’s Society (IOM) Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet by Alan Bennett Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet paints an intimate portrait of one woman and the forces that shape her life. We are deeply moved by Bennett’s compassionate display of human frailty in the person of an ordinary, middle-aged Englishwoman who speaks as though chatting with [read more…]
Update 23/1/25: We have some sad news regarding Martin Carthy's scheduled appearance at Erin Arts Centre. ABM and the Carthy family had hoped that the planned 2026 tour and festival dates with Martin Carthy, alongside his daughter Eliza, would offer a graceful and dignified exit from touring for him: one in which he could celebrate his amazing legacy and leave audiences with fond memories. Sadly, Martin's health has rapidly declined in the last few weeks. [read more…]
Adult £12 / Over 65 £10 / Under 18 £5 Festival season ticket £35 MADF is delighted to welcome back to EAC their 2026 Festival of One Act Plays, adjudicated by hugely popular Sue Doherty (GODA). Presenting Drama and Comedy from renowned playwrights and featuring four original pieces of writing from Island authors. Enjoy 4 nights of thought-provoking entertainment provided by talented actors and directors from across the Island. Sue Doherty will give an enlightening [read more…]
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” [read more…]
James ‘Jay’ Lewis, bass player with Cast, lead guitarist with The Zutons, will be playing two 45 minute sets (one acoustic, one electric) that showcase both aspects of his back catalogue. All you need to know about James Jay Lewis: Self-taught multi-instrumentalist, James ‘Jay’ Lewis has graced some of the biggest stages across the globe as part of three of the biggest bands to come out of Liverpool (apart from you know who!), performing in [read more…]
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 1st April - from 2pm The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien First published in 1960, the novel was banned in O’Brien’s native Ireland for its frank and candid portrayal of female desire, sexuality and independence, subjects that were not discussed in the conservative [read more…]
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. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of 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). Tchaikovsky’s many moods—tender, grand, [read more…]
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 6th May - from 2pm The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloots Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Her cancer cells, taken without her knowledge, became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools [read more…]
Ian Prowse and the Fiddle of Fire return to the Erin Arts Centre on Saturday 9th May for another electrifying performance. Ian’s shows are full of energy and passion, and he will be performing songs from his extensive back catalogue with Pele, Amsterdam and his own solo material. You don’t have to be familiar with his songs to be carried away on a wave of enthusiasm and Scouse humour.
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 3rd June - from 2pm The Aspern Papers by Henry James A novella originally published in The Atlantic in 1888. Arguably the most popular and critically successful of James’ longer works, The Aspern Papers tells the story of a poetry enthusiast and aspiring [read more…]
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 1st July - from 2pm Behind The Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in Mumbai, one of the 21st [read more…]
