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ATG Tickets is the joint-largest ticketing company in the UK. It is the largest in theatre ticketing and provides the arts and entertainment industry with a range of services. ATG Tickets manages ticketing, revenue management, customer service (through its UK based contact centre), group sales and ecommerce needs for producers, venues, artists and events across the UK.
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Ambassador Theatre Group
Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992, the Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd (ATG) is the largest owner/operator of theatres in the UK with 39 venues, an internationally recognised theatre producer and a leader in theatre ticketing services through ATG Tickets.
ATG’s impressive portfolio of West End theatres includes historic buildings such as the Apollo Victoria, Donmar Warehouse, Duke of York’s, Fortune, Harold Pinter, Lyceum, Phoenix, Piccadilly, Playhouse, Savoy, Trafalgar Studio 1 and Trafalgar Studio 2.
ATG’s regional theatres include The Ambassadors Woking encompassing the New Victoria and Rhoda McGaw Theatres and the award-winning 6 screen cinema complex, Ambassador Cinemas; Aylesbury Waterside Theatre; New Alexandra Theatre Birmingham; Theatre Royal Brighton; Bristol Hippodrome; Churchill Theatre Bromley; Edinburgh Playhouse; Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone; King’s Theatre and Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Grimsby Auditorium; Liverpool Empire; Palace Theatre and Opera House, Manchester; Milton Keynes Theatre; New Theatre, Oxford; Richmond Theatre; Southport Theatre; Regent Theatre and Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent; Sunderland Empire; Princess Theatre, Torquay; New Wimbledon Theatre and New Wimbledon Studio; Grand Opera House, York.
ATG has been behind some of the most successful and innovative productions in Britain and internationally. Current and recent ATG co-productions include the Lincoln Center’s production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific (London and UK Tour);
All New People starring
Zach Braff (Manchester and London);
Ghost the Musical (Manchester, London and Broadway);
Posh / Jumpy (a Royal Court Season at the Duke of York’s);
Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 The Musical (Manchester, UK Tour and London);
Dandy Dick starring
Patricia Hodge and
Nicholas Le Prevost (Brighton, UK Tour and London);
Matthew Bourne’s
The Nutcracker! (Sadler’s Wells and UK Tour);
Legally Blonde the Musical (London and UK Tour);
Monty Python’s Spamalot by Eric Idle (London and UK Tour);
Being Shakespeare starring Simon Callow (London, UK Tour and New York);
The Misanthrope starring
Damian Lewis and
Keira Knightley (London); the critically acclaimed award-winning musical
West Side Story (Sadler’s Wells and UK Tour);
Elling starring
John Simm (London);
Guys and Dolls starring
Ewan McGregor (London) and
The Rocky Horror Show (London and UK Tour).
ATG is also mounting productions around the world. ATG’s productions in Australia include
Legally Blonde the Musical, The Rocky Horror Show, Guys and Dolls and
West Side Story. Recent ATG productions on Broadway include
The Mountaintop starring
Samuel L Jackson and
Angela Bassett and
Exit the King starring
Geoffrey Rush and
Susan Sarandon.
ATG has recently launched a number of major new production company initiatives. In partnership with Tony Award® winner Jerry Mitchell, the acclaimed director and choreographer, ATG has formed Jerry Mitchell Productions. Jerry Mitchell Productions will work to develop, create and produce new productions for ATG theatres in London, New York and around the world. Under the Artistic Direction of Chris Luscombe, with Associate Directors Maria Aitken and Philip Franks, Theatre Royal Brighton Productions will present classic and new drama both on tour in the UK and in the West End; and in a co-producing partnership with ATG, West End and Broadway Producer, Tali Pelman, will develop and produce new productions for presentation within ATG venues and in New York.
Other ATG successes include the co-production of The Weir in London and on Broadway (winner of the 1999 Olivier Award for Best New Play); Smokey Joe’s Café in the West End and the Olivier award-winning Slava’s Snowshow in the West End and North America plus the multi award-winning West End musical, Carmen Jones.
ATG has a wholly owned subsidiary company
Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP), led by
Sonia Friedman, who is one of the most prolific producers in the West End and on Broadway. Current and recent productions include a West End transfer of Globe Productions’
Richard III and
Twelfth Night starring
Mark Rylance;
The Sunshine Boys starring
Danny DeVito and
Richard Griffiths (London);
Hay Fever starring
Lindsay Duncan and
Jeremy Northam (London);
Nice Work if You Can Get It starring
Matthew Broderick and
Kelli O’Hara (Broadway);
Alan Ayckbourn’s
Absent Friends (London);
Masterclass starring
Tyne Daly (London);
The Book of Mormon by
Trey Parker and
Matt Stone (Broadway) and the Olivier award-winning smash hit musical
Legally Blonde the Musical. Other productions from SFP include
Jerusalem in London and on Broadway,
Betrayal starring
Kristin Scott Thomas,
The Children’s Hour starring
Keira Knightley and
Elisabeth Moss,
Much Ado About Nothing starring
David Tennant and
Catherine Tate, S
hirley Valentine & Educating Rita, La Bête, Othello, La Cage Aux Folles, Arcadia, Boeing-Boeing, The Norman Conquests, The Seagull, No Man’s Land and
Tom Stoppard’s
Rock ’n’ Roll.
ATG also owns a major national family entertainment and pantomime company, First Family Entertainment (FFE). FFE is producing ten star-studded pantomimes for the Christmas 2012/2013 season.
Updated May 2012
Who’s Who
Life President
Sir Eddie Kulukundis, OBE
Board Members
Executive Chairman
Greg Dyke
Joint Chief Executive & Creative Director
Howard Panter
Join Chief Executive
Rosemary Squire OBE
Finance & Commercial Director
Helen Enright
Executive Director
Michael Lynas
Property Director
David Blyth
Business Affairs Director
Peter Kavanagh
Managing Director (Venues)
Nick Potter
Managing Director (Ticketing)
Simon Palethorpe
Director
Simon Davidson
Director
Chris Graham
Director
Richard Lenane
Director
Peter Beckwith OBE
Director
Bill Benjamin
Find out more, visit:
www.atg.co.uk/productions (coming soon)
www.firstfamilyentertainment.co.uk
www.soniafriedman.com
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