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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Martin Robinson

Cult favourite The Yard theatre to be demolished - and then triumphantly rebuilt!

The Yard is hardly your average theatre.

Knocked together by volunteers using “scaffolding bought off the black market,” according to founder and Artistic Director Jay Miller, it was only supposed to be a three-month pop-up, put together around the Olympic Park build for London 2012. Thirteen years of cultural delights later, and The Yard is finally being demolished.

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