The Ambassadors Theatre Group

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Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992, the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) is currently the largest theatre group in the West End. It is also the second largest in the UK regions with a total of 23 theatre venues. In addition to owning the venues, ATG is also one of the country’s foremost theatre producers and we have been behind some of the most successful and innovative productions in Britain and across the world.

ATG’s  portfolio of West End theatres include  historic and high profile buildings such as the Comedy,  Piccadilly, Donmar Warehouse, Phoenix, Duke of York’s, Playhouse, Fortune and Savoy and Trafalgar Studios. Our regional theatres include The Ambassadors Woking encompassing the New Victoria and Rhoda McGaw Theatres and a 6 screen cinema complex; the Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent; the New Wimbledon Theatre; the Theatre Royal, Glasgow; the Theatre Royal, Brighton; Milton Keynes Theatre; the Churchill Theatre in Bromley; Richmond Theatre, Surrey; the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent; the King’s Theatre in Glasgow; and the New Wimbledon Studio, London.

Current and recent ATG co-productions in London and internationally include the acclaimed production of Harold Pinter’s The Lover/The Collection; Elling starring John Simm; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess directed by Trevor Nunn;  Sondheim’s Tony Award winning Company on Broadway; The Rocky Horror Show; Sweeney Todd; The New Statesman starring Rik Mayall; Guys and Dolls starring Ewan McGregor; Gershwin’s My One and Only; Stephen Poliakoff’s Sweet Panic; Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling; The Witches starring Ruby Wax; The Mystery of Charles Dickens starring Simon Callow; Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!;  Shared Experience’s After Mrs Rochester; Edward Hall’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Richard Eyre’s and the Royal National Theatre’s multi-award winner Vincent in Brixton; a co-production of Noises Off with the Royal National Theatre; Christopher Hampton’s new version of Three Sisters starring Kristin Scott Thomas; Tom Courtenay in Pretending To Be Me; a co-production of Doctor Faustus at The Young Vic starring Jude Law; Shockheaded Peter in the West End and the first major West End revival and Broadway production of Peter Nichols’ classic A Day in the Death of Joe Egg starring Eddie Izzard; Caryl Churchill's Far Away, directed by Stephen Daldry, plus the Royal Court Theatre production of Mouth to Mouth in the West End.

ATG also has a series of creative alliances, based in theatre, but with the potential to form a bridge between media. These unique initiatives include a film co-production company with Trademark Films, makers of Shakespeare in Love, and a TV company ScreenStage, with ITV plc, which has made five TV films to date. ScreenStage also co-produced The Play’s The Thing for Channel 4.

ATG has a wholly owned subsidiary company Sonia Friedman Productions, led by producer Sonia Friedman, whose current co-productions include the highly acclaimed Dealer’s Choice by Patrick Marber and the award-winning That Face by Polly Stenham, both in the West End. The hit West End comedy Boeing-Boeing will open this spring on Broadway and in Australia.

Previous SFP productions in the West End include Tom Stoppard's Rock ’n’ Roll (also on Broadway); In Celebration starring Orlando Bloom; The Dumb Waiter starring Lee Evans; Faith Healer starring Ralph Fiennes (Broadway); Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical The Woman in White (also on Broadway); the revival of Michael Frayn’s Donkeys’ Years; Sexual Perversity in Chicago with Matthew Perry and Minnie Driver; Bent with Alan Cumming; On The Third Day, the winning play from the C4 series The Play’s The Thing; Endgame with Michael Gambon and Lee Evans;  Up For Grabs with Madonna; Franco Zeffirelli’s Absolutely! (perhaps) with Joan Plowright; Ragtime; Macbeth with Sean Bean and On An Average Day with Woody Harrelson and Kyle McLachlan.

To find out about our latest productions and to book tickets why not visit our website.

www.theambassadors.com