A new building. The first season. Six productions. Running from July 2026 to April 2027, the season includes a 50th-anniversary revival of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf directed by Diane Page, Holly Robinson's adaptation of Mrs Dalloway, and Ian McKellen returning to the stage in Lear, reimagined by Artistic Director Jay Miller and playwright Simon Stephens.

Tickets start at £10 across every production. There are £5 tickets on the door for under-27s through No Empty Seats. Premium tickets fund the cheapest ones. Every production starts at £10, McKellen’s Lear or a debut play.

The Yard opened in 2011 in a Hackney Wick warehouse built with a team of fifty volunteers, a £9,000 Arts Council England grant and materials reclaimed from the Olympic Park. It was meant to last six months. Fifteen years on, the original building has been demolished and replaced with an entirely new venue on the same spot.

Designed from scratch by RIBA award-winning Takero Shimazaki Architects, the new Yard is more than twice the size of the original. A 220-seat curved auditorium. A six-storey natural ventilation chimney. Reused brick from the original building. Low-carbon products throughout. A dedicated space for the venue's artist development programme working with young people from primary age through to young professionals. New backstage, dressing rooms and office facilities.