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Feb 14, 2023 · The London-based theater operator and the Broadway impresario have agreed to combine their operations, creating a global theater company. Jordan Roth will serve as the creative director and Mark Cornell as the CEO of the combined group.
- Business Model
- Theatre Ownership and Management
- Theatre Producing Activity
- Ticketing and Marketing Operations
- Lovetheatre.Com and Group Line
- History
- Culture
- Ownership
- List of Venues Managed by ATG
ATG's business model involves the combination of theatre ownership with production management, marketing and ticket operations.ATG manages (and in some cases own) venues, mainly theatres, which host shows for paying audiences, including shows created by its production functions; ATG's production functions create shows, which are hired out for perfo...
ATG manages more than 50 theatres and one cinema in the UK, the US, and Germany. ATG's portfolio of 10 West End theatres include the Ambassadors, Apollo Victoria, Duke of York's, Fortune, Harold Pinter, Lyceum, Phoenix, Piccadilly, Playhouse, and Savoy. ATG also has UK regional theatres in Aylesbury, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh, Folkes...
ATG has its own producing arm, ATG Productions. ATG 's production activities expanded with the launch of Theatre Royal Brighton Productions and the formation of producing partnerships with directors Jerry Mitchell and Jamie Lloyd in 2011 and 2012. ATG has a number of major production company initiatives and partnerships including Jerry Mitchell Pro...
ATG runs ATG Tickets, which provides the in-house ticketing services to ATG's UK theatre's and manages ATG's Theatre Card membership programme and ticketing promotional partnerships. The ticketing website atgtickets.com was launched in 2008 and has since been recognised by Hitwise as the UK's number one theatre ticketing website, with 20 million un...
In 2013, in order to increase the variety and scope of its operation, ATG acquired the Ticket Machine Group with its key brands, Group Line and LOVEtheatre.com, both of whom continue to be major ticket agencies in their own right in London. Group Line is the leading group sales agency in London offering group bookers access to all ATG venues as wel...
Beginnings
Squire and Panter had known each other since 1979, and Panter offered Squire a job after she was made redundant in 1986. The company now known as ATG began through Panter meeting property developer brothers Peter and John Beckwith. The Beckwiths' company, London and Edinburgh Trust, was working on a development in Woking, Surrey, that was to include an arts and entertainment complex, and the Beckwiths asked Panter and Squire to plan and manage it. When London and Edinburgh Trust was sold befo...
ACT deal
ATG underwent major expansion in 2000 through the acquisition of seven West End theatres from Associated Capital Theatres (ACT): the Albery (now named the Noël Coward), the Comedy (now named the Harold Pinter), Donmar Warehouse, Phoenix, Piccadilly, Whitehall (now Trafalgar Studios) and Wyndham's theatres. Expansion required the involvement of larger corporate investors including AREA Property Partners and Carlton Television. Subsequent deals included taking on the running of theatres in Brom...
Live Nation deal
In November 2009, ATG consolidated its position as the major UK theatre owner by purchasing the Live Nation UK theatre portfolio of 16 venues in England and Scotland in a £90 million acquisition. Live Nation sold the theatres as part of a business decision of "selling off assets that are not core to our live music strategy". At that time Exponent Private Equity became the new majority owner of ATG by financing the theatre takeover. Exponent provided at least £75m of financing for the deal, wh...
Panter has on several occasions described ATG as a company "of national stature but with local sensitivity". ATG has demonstrated a commitment to the (often historic) buildings that it manages. In 2009, the Theatres Trust, the National Advisory Public Body for theatres in the UK, stated that it "works regularly with ATG, advising them on their plan...
ATG is controlled by Providence Equity Partners. Exponent Private Equity has a minority stake. Peter Beckwith, through his company PMB Holdings, is a "major shareholder". Theatre impresario and shipping broker Eddie Kulukundis is a shareholder.Panter and Squire own 8% of ATG, with an option on a further 5%, according to reports in 2003.
Theatres
Start year indicates the year of ATG's first involvement, End yearindicates the last year of ATG involvement (where applicable). In terms of ownership, it is often unclear whether ATG own the freehold to a theatre or a leasehold: reports use terms such as buy, purchase and own, but rarely specify whether they are referring to the freehold or to a leasehold.
Cinema
ATG also operate the six-screen Ambassadors Cinema, Woking, in the same complex that contains the New Victoria and Rhoda McGawtheatres.
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Apr 16, 2024 · By Logan Culwell-Block. April 16, 2024. U.K.-based theatre owners and production company Ambassador Theatre Group has rebranded as ATG Entertainment, part of the company's shift beyond...
Learn about ATG, the world's number one live-theatre company, operating 58 venues across Britain, the US and Germany. See their latest updates, jobs, and productions on LinkedIn.
