NOW is back at The Yard with a month-long programme for the here and Now. Since 2014, NOW has supported, nurtured and showcased new ideas in theatre, supporting over 60 artists whose work has been presented internationally including Jules Cunningham, Rosana Cade & Ivor MacAskill and FK Alexander.
The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.
The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.
The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.
The Yard Theatre has announced a new leadership team. Deputy Artistic Director, Anthony Simpson-Pike has been appointed new Deputy Artistic Director, and Ashleigh Wheeler as new Executive Director.
The Yard's autumn season will include two new theatre premieres by emerging and established artists; ATHENA by Gracie Gardner will open the season, providing a platform for director Grace Gummer following her National Theatre Women of Tomorrow Directors Award.
The Yard Theatre's brand new programme, Live Lab, is a four month paid opportunity for six artists to take part in workshops, masterclasses and to create new work with a funded week-long research and development stage.
Philadelphia-based pop-rock band, Neverkept have released their new track “Sundown, Somehow.”
A total of 216 music teachers from 199 cities have been announced as quarterfinalists for the Music Educator Award presented by the Recording Academy® and GRAMMY Museum®. In total, nearly 2,000 initial nominations were submitted. In addition to our quarterfinalists, 91 legacy applicants from 2020 will also be eligible to win the award this year.
The Yard Theatre has announced a day-long programme of new commissioned live digital works by artists across its local, theatre and music programmes. It will take place throughout Sunday 17th May, from lunchtime until late on a new site, Yard Online, which will launch next week.
Philadelphia-based pop-rock band, Neverkept have released a new track titled “Reunion Tower.” The track follows the band's previous two singles “Vertigo” and “Complicated,” rounding out what's to be expected from the band in the future. “'Reunion Tower' is kind of the linchpin to this whole process; energetic and dramatic, fun but melancholy,” says the band. “We have a lot in the tank and really wanted to show some diversity in our catalog so far.”
The National Theatre have today announced director Grace Gummer as the first recipient of the NT Women of Tomorrow Directors Award, as part of a partnership with the CHANEL Fund for Women ina??thea??Arts and Culture and inaugural venue partner The Yard Theatre. Grace was selected from over 160 applicants by the panel which included representatives from the NT and The Yard.
WE LOVE YOU: A f**kING POSITIVE COMEDY SHOW is coming to Union Hall. Ariel and Amanda love you. Amanda Giobbi and Ariel Gitlin love you. We may not have met you but we love you. We love you for being bad at puzzles, for being lactose intolerant, and for pretending you didn't like Game of Thrones when you actually just didn't understand what's going on.
The Yard Theatre has announced three new members of its Board of Trustees: Royal Opera House Technical Director Mark Dakin, architect and construction project manager Nick Hunter and accounting and finance expert Adrianna Mart. Together they bring strategic experience and expertise spanning theatre, finance and construction projects.
The Yard kicks off the year with its acclaimed annual NOW festival. 5 weeks of double bills by 10 of the most exciting artists working in theatre today.
The National Theatre have today announced the NT Women of Tomorrow Directors Award, as part of a new partnership with the CHANEL Fund for Women ina??thea??Arts and Culture. The new Award will support a female director to bring their work to a wider audience; by providing them with an opportunity to stage their own production in aa??partnera??theatre. This year the partner theatre will be The Yard Theatre.
It's not been a long time since Clare Barron took both New York and London by storm with her 2018 play Dance Nation, whose portrayal of a group of teenage competitive dancers had gloriously ruptured into feminist fireworks. Her next work to appear on a London stage is not a new play, but an earlier piece titled Dirty Crusty. Directed by Jay Miller, this hyped-up production at The Yard thrusts itself upon the audience with a near-reckless openness, but consistently proves devoid of anything that could transform its daring, even subversive, spirit into meaningful substance.
Over recent years The Yard has developed a reputation for staging bold and pretty out there productions, usually boding well with audiences and generating a definite buzz about the space.
The Yard Theatre has announced the casting for Arthur Miller's The Crucible, its first staging of a classic text by a non-living writer, running from Wednesday 27 March to Saturday 11 May with Press Night on Tuesday 2 April.
The Yard has announced a new season of work to kick off 2019.
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