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Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992, the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) has a total of 38 venues across the UK. When the new Aylesbury Waterside Theatre opens in October 2010, this total will stand at 39. ATG is also one of the country's foremost theatre producers and has been behind some of the most successful and innovative productions in Britain and internationally.

ATG's impressive portfolio of West End theatres includes historic buildings such as the Apollo Victoria, Comedy, Donmar Warehouse, Duke of York's, Fortune, 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; 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 also owns a major national family entertainment and pantomime company, First Family Entertainment (FFE). FFE produced 12 pantomimes for the Christmas 2009/2010 season featuring a star-studded line up including Pamela Anderson, Paul O'Grady, Joanna Page, Henry Winkler, Mickey Rooney, Gray O'Brien, Brian Blessed, Ruby Wax and Claire Sweeney.