Jay Miller News

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.

The 2nd Annual 'Home For The Holidays' Tour will be hosted by The Oak Ridge Playhouse for two nights only.

The 2nd Annual 'Home For The Holidays' Tour will be hosted by The Oak Ridge Playhouse for two nights only.

Proposals have been submitted to the London Legacy Development Corporation to move The Yard Theatre into a new building.

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?

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?

Following another critically successful year, The Yard's Artistic Director Jay Miller is delighted to announce plans for Spring through to Summer 2016.

Following another critically successful year, The Yard's Artistic Director Jay Miller is delighted to announce plans for Spring through to Summer 2016.

Local actor and theatre lover Jeb Bigelow hosted the biggest cast party in Columbus at the Bluestone on March 13, 2015. Check out an exclusive look at the red carpet and event below!

Negin Farsad, Amy Albert and Beth McGregor present the weekly standup show, Comedy School Dropout. In the grand tradition of East Village alternative rooms, Comedy School Dropout brings top-notch standup comics, the occasional comedy musical act, subversive duo, or extremely talented threesome, to the stage for the cut-rate price of zero dollars.

No Way to Treat A Lady, running March 4th through April 17th at American Heartland Theatre is an uproarious, sexy musical that gives new meaning to the phrase 'knock em dead'!

No Way to Treat A Lady, running March 4th through April 17th at American Heartland Theatre is an uproarious, sexy musical that gives new meaning to the phrase 'knock em dead'!

No Way to Treat A Lady, running March 4th through April 17th at American Heartland Theatre is an uproarious, sexy musical that gives new meaning to the phrase 'knock em dead'!

'The Forecast' will play its final performance on the 7th of February at the Greenwich Playhouse.