Julia's Story
Julia works as part of the Front of House team at the New Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham.
ATG Entertainment: Passion Behind Performance
ATG Entertainment: Passion Behind Performance
ATG Entertainment is proud to stand at the forefront of the live entertainment industry.
Our expertise and capabilities enable producers and other creatives to bring their visions to life and create unforgettable performances for audiences, presented in our landmark venues and delivered with exceptional hospitality.
It is the passion of our teams, that cover every discipline across the live entertainment industry, that underpins our continuing strategic growth and success.
ATG Entertainment owns, operates or programmes 73 venues across Britain, the US and Continental Europe
In the UK, our portfolio includes historic West End theatres such as the Duke of York’s, Piccadilly, Savoy, Apollo Victoria, the Lyceum and the Phoenix Theatre recently refurbished to host Stranger Things: The First Shadow. We also operate venues across the UK in major cities such as Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and many more. We programme, present, and operate two music-focussed arenas: the historic Globe in Stockton, and the Swansea Building Society Arena on the waterside in Swansea.
In the US, we run seven Broadway houses including the Lyric, Hudson, Al Hirschfeld and the August Wilson Theatre. Over the years, we have grown our footprint to include venues in Brooklyn, Boston, Detroit, San Francisco, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Sugar Land, Texas. Recently, Celebrity Attractions, a touring Broadway presenter, joined the ATG Entertainment family, ensuring that high profile Broadway productions continue to thrill audiences across Tulsa, Little Rock, and Springfield, Missouri.
In Continental Europe, we operate theatres in Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Bochum in Germany, and thanks to the exciting acquisition of Spanish production company SOM Produce, ATG Entertainment now also supports the operation of and programming of five venues in Madrid. Our teams also recently began work on building a state-of-the-art venue in the Prater, a public park in the Austrian capital city of Vienna.
We are the world leader in theatre ticketing
A great live entertainment experience starts with a great ticketing experience. Every year, 18 million people use ATGtickets to book their seats for plays, musicals, comedy shows, attractions or exhibitions across the UK, US and Continental Europe.
We run some of the world’s most popular theatre ticketing sites, with ATGtickets.com alone attracting over 55 million unique visitors a year. The site is a pioneer in revenue management, analysis and reporting technologies.
Our complementary brands include LOVEtheatre.com and Group Line which is the UK market leader for group sales and consistently voted “Best Ticketing Agency” by industry peers.
We present the world’s best live entertainment in our venues
Working alongside leading producers and creative artists, our venues present an extraordinarily diverse range of top-quality entertainment. Our West End theatres host long-running hit shows such as Disney’s The Lion King and Wicked alongside acclaimed new musicals such as Operation Mincemeat and Benjamin Button. On Broadway we have Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Book of Mormon and Hadestown. Moulin Rouge! The Musical and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club are playing in ATG venues in both London and New York. Other current and recent shows in our venues include Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard, the critically acclaimed Stranger Things: The First Shadow, David Tennant in Macbeth, Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff in Merrily We Roll Along, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick in Plaza Suite, James Norton in A Little Life, and Andrew Scott in Vanya. Our regional venues in the UK and US present top musicals and plays including Disney’s Aladdin, Hamilton, Wicked, Mary Poppins, Come From Away, Tina, & Juliet, Funny Girl, The Book of Mormon, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia, and in Germany shows such as Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the long-running production of Starlight Express in Bochum.
Music also features, with the world’s top music artists appearing regularly on our stages. Recent highlights include Bob Dylan, Ed Sheeran, Arctic Monkeys, Royal Blood, Busted, Bonnie Raitt, Nick Cave, FKA Twigs, John Legend, Paloma Faith and George Ezra. Forthcoming artists to appear include Nile Rodgers & Chic, Kaiser Chiefs, The Libertines, Paul Weller and Jamie Cullum. The mix is completed with the very best comedy, spoken word, dance, opera, and much more to delight audiences in our venues across the globe.
We produce award-winning shows
Our in-house production team, ATG Productions, is dedicated to producing critically acclaimed, commercially successful and creatively ambitious work for the West End, Broadway, Continental Europe and beyond.
Current and recent projects include the critically acclaimed Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre, West End/ August Wilson Theatre, Broadway); Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger (Savoy Theatre, West End /St. James Theatre, Broadway); Barcelona starring Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte (Duke of York’s Theatre, West End); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Ambassadors Theatre, West End); The Last Five Years (Hudson Theatre, Broadway); Starlight Express (Starlight Express Theatre, Bochum); Abenteuerland Capitol Theatre, Düsseldorf); Waiting for Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (Broadway); Pretty Woman (Theater 11 Zürich); Dear Evan Hansen (UK Tour); The Wiz (Broadway/North America Tour); the Tony Awards winning production of Parade (Broadway/North America Tour); the Tony Awards winning production of Appropriate starring Sarah Paulson (Broadway); Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker (Emerson Colonial Theatre, Pre-Broadway/Hudson Theatre, Broadway/Savoy Theatre, West End); David Byrne’s American Utopia (Emerson Colonial Theatre, Pre-Broadway/Hudson Theatre, Broadway); Player Kings starring Ian McKellen (Noel Coward Theatre, West End/UK tour); A Streetcar Named Desire starring Paul Mescal (Phoenix Theatre, West End); Pretty Woman The Musical (Savoy Theatre, West End / UK tour); I Should Be So Lucky: The Official Stock Aitken Waterman Musical (UK Tour) and Gutenberg starring Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells (Broadway). In addition to producing the world’s first non-English productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as well as Moulin Rouge! The Musical, ATG is also co-producer of Harry Potter Tokyo.
ATGE’s partner company Sonia Friedman Productions is an international production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions around the world. Since it was established in 2002, SFP has developed, initiated and produced over 220 new productions and has won 63 Olivier Awards, 48 Tonys and 3 BAFTAs. Current and forthcoming productions include: The Book of Mormon (West End, UK & international tour 2024); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End, Broadway, Hamburg, Tokyo and North American tour); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a co-production with Netflix (West End); Mean Girls (West End); Oedipus (West End); The Years (West End); Stereophonic (Broadway); The Hills of California (Broadway); and Funny Girl (US tour).
Our Values
Life at ATG
Front of House
If you’ve been to a theatre, cinema or even a restaurant you’ll have experienced the Front of House role. We’re the team that welcomes you to the theatre and works hard to make your visit a spectacular one from beginning to end. It’s a busy job with lots of variety and the opportunity to work with many different people in a creative and exciting environment. Sound good? Read on!
Days in the Life of a Theatre Techie
New Wimbledon Theatre is well known as a receiving house with a long history of hosting different touring shows on our stage every week. However, what you may not know, is just how much work goes on behind the scenes to set the stage for these constantly changing productions. To find out what our technical team get up to I grabbed a hardhat and a pair of steel capped boots to work backstage with them on perhaps their biggest get-in of the year,