Super Duper Close Up is the ambitious and adventurous new multimedia show from acclaimed UK company Made In China that will premiere at The Yard Theatre this winter. An explosion of live film-making, hypnotic movement and memoir fiction, Super Duper Close Up is the story of a woman's journey through a labyrinth of click-bait and pop cliche that asks: what's a girl to do when everything is so perfect yet coming apart at the seams?
The Yard Theatre is delighted to announce the appointment of its new Executive Director, Sam Hansford. Starting at the end of April he will take over from The Yard's first Executive Director Lucy Oliver-Harrison after five years in the role.
The Yard Theatre welcome back the award-winning Company Three with The Act directed by James Blakey, a show about teenage sex, love and intimacy, made by teenagers.
The Yard Theatre is delighted to announce the premiere of Buggy Baby, a new play written by Josh Azouz and directed by the award-winning Ned Bennett. It runs from 7-31 March at The Yard.
The Yard Theatre is delighted to announce the cast for the premiere of Buggy Baby, a new play written by Josh Azouz and directed by the award-winning Ned Bennett. It runs from 7-31 March at The Yard.
In March, The Yard kicks off its spring season with the premiere of a new play written by Yard Artistic Associate Josh Azouz, in a long-awaited return after the critically-acclaimed The Mikvah Project in 2015 (Time Out, The Stage). Buggy Baby follows a baby and two adults in a damp flat in East London. A horror comedy exploring love, trauma and family, it will be directed by the award-winning Ned Bennett, director of An Octoroon (Orange Tree Theatre), Pomona (National Theatre) and Yen (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester).
In a chance of fate, two young lovers sit and get to know one another. They drink, play-fight, cuddle and forget the fact that their countries are at war. Planes fly overhead, looking for places to drop bombs, but in this countryside house there's a different sort of spark happening. This Beautiful Future is a compassionate take on a bleak situation.
The Yard Theatre announces the return of smash-hit This Beautiful Future in November following a sell-out, critically-acclaimed premiere run earlier this year.
The nominees for the Empty Space...Peter Brook Awards 2017 have been announced! The award ceremony will take place at the National Theatre Studio on October 31, 2017.
In October The Yard welcomes two weeks of double bills featuring live performance company GETINTHEBACKOFTHEAVAN'S (Soho Theatre, Almeida) apocalyptic Frankenshow, and the UK debut of American cabaret star Erin Markey's sensual late-night show Boner Killer. Fierce vs. The Yard is a collaboration with the acclaimed Birmingham-based international festival of cross-art performance Fierce Festival, and marks Artistic Director Aaron Wright's inaugural programme at Fierce as well as the first time the festival brings work to London.
Miss Mona runs the Chicken Ranch, a brothel with a long history in a small Texas town. The locals have a good relationship with the institution, and Mona is respected in the community. The Sheriff, Ed Earl Dodd, also looks out for the Chicken Ranch due to his past with Miss Mona. However, when pious reporter Melvin Thorpe exposes the brothel, outside interests want it shut down, putting the governor in a tough spot. Performances August 10-12, 2017 at 8pm and August 13th at 3:00 pm. Doors open 30 minutes prior. Northland Performing Arts Center (NPAC), 4411 Tamarack Blvd, Columbus, Ohio 43229. Visit www.imaginecolumbus.org for information on purchasing tickets.
The Yard Theatre has been awarded National Portfolio status by Arts Council England. This means we will receive four years of investment in our work between April 2018 and March 2022, ensuring we can champion new artists from across the UK to develop bold new work.
Due to overwhelmingly positive reviews and unprecedented audience demand The Yard is proudly extending This Beautiful Future for one week only, until 27th May 2017.
Private by-invitation-only industry readings for the acclaimed London hit The Mikvah Project by Josh Azouz will take place Monday, March 20th at 5:30pm and Tuesday, March 21st at 12:30pm at the appropriate venue, The Actors Temple (339 West 47th Street, between 8th and 9th avenues). The reading will feature Tony Award nominated Jonathan C. Kaplan (Falsettos) and will introduce Benjamin Kalish.
Ignite Theatre is known for taking on edgier shows, so it's no surprise when the cast of their current production struts onto the stage baring skin with sexy attire. And this isn't the first time.
Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party to end all parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eyes land on a striking man named Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?
