Company at the Yard Theatre: Sondheim revival on general sale 19 November

A new production of Company, the musical comedy by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, is coming to the Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick next summer, directed by the Yard's founder and artistic director, Jay Miller. It runs from 27 May to 10 July 2027, and general sale opens at noon on Thursday 19 November 2026, after two days of priority booking for the Yard's members. The production is presented by the Yard Theatre and English Touring Theatre, in association with Theatr Clwyd.

Company goes on general sale on 19 November

The Yard is opening booking for Company in three stages. Yard Residents, the top tier of the theatre's membership, can book from noon on Tuesday 17 November. Yard Regulars follow from noon on Wednesday 18 November. Everyone else can book from noon on Thursday 19 November, when general sale opens.

Previews run from 27 May to 8 June 2027, the first public performances before critics are invited in, and the run continues until 10 July. A captioned performance is scheduled for Tuesday 6 July at 7.30pm. Age guidance, running time and content guidance will be published closer to opening, and the Yard says the show is still being made. Casting has not yet been announced, and the theatre says the full creative team and cast will follow soon.

What Company is about

Company follows Bobby on his 35th birthday. He has lovers and he has friends, but his friends are getting married, starting families or getting divorced, and his lovers want to know where things are going. Everyone around him seems to know what they want. Bobby cannot decide. The Yard's own billing adds a playful aside, asking whether Bobby might be a bit gay, and describes the piece as a musical comedy about the life you should be living by now.

The show was originally produced and directed on Broadway by Hal Prince, with orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, and it is built from a series of scenes with Bobby's married and unmarried friends rather than a single linear plot. Many London theatregoers will remember Marianne Elliott's West End production at the Gielgud Theatre, which reimagined the central role as a woman; our review of Company at the Gielgud Theatre and our look at the 2018 London cast recording of Company cover that version. The Yard's new production keeps Bobby as a man and leans into his indecision.

The creative team behind Company at the Yard

Jay Miller directs. He founded the Yard in 2011, and the theatre bills him as an Olivier Award winner; its production of The Glass Menagerie won the Olivier Award for Best New Production in Affiliate Theatre. His next production is Lear, a new play he has made with Simon Stephens for Ian McKellen, which runs at the Yard from 17 November 2026 to 2 January 2027.

The musical director, arranger and orchestrator is Máth Roberts, whose credits include The BFG for the RSC and Chichester Festival Theatre and The Enormous Crocodile at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Set and costume design is by Anna Yates, lighting design is by Jackie Shemesh and sound design is by Josh Anio Grigg, who also worked on The Glass Menagerie at the Yard. Choreography is by Malik Nashad Sharpe and casting is by Heather Basten. The production is staged by arrangement with Music Theatre International.

Company in the new Yard Theatre

The Yard first opened in 2011 in a Hackney Wick warehouse that was only meant to last six months. The original building has since been demolished and replaced on the same site with a new theatre designed by Takero Shimazaki Architects. It is more than twice the size of the old venue, with a curved auditorium of 220 seats, a six storey natural ventilation chimney and brick reused from the first building. Its opening season, which began in July 2026 and runs to April 2027, includes Lear and a stage version of Mrs Dalloway, so Company arrives as the next big title after that first year.

A 220 seat room is unusually close quarters for a Sondheim score of this size, and the intimacy is clearly part of the appeal. Earlier Yard productions covered on British Theatre include Made In China's Super Super Close Up at the Yard Theatre.

Company and its partners beyond London

English Touring Theatre, the national touring producer, presents the production with the Yard, and Theatr Clwyd in Mold, North Wales, is the associate partner. Theatr Clwyd has a strong record of its own as a producing house, including the Twelfth Night we reviewed at Theatr Clwyd. Any dates for the production after Hackney Wick have not yet been confirmed by the producers, and we will report them when they are announced. In the meantime, our touring theatre guide rounds up what is on the road across the UK, and Sondheim fans can find more on the writer in our piece on the unofficial Stephen Sondheim Day.

For now, the date to note is noon on Thursday 19 November 2026, when Company at the Yard Theatre opens to the general public for its summer run in Hackney Wick.