Our Corporate Supporters
The generosity of our Corporate Supporters makes a huge contribution to our work, enabling us to provide advice and support to theatres and campaign for theatres at risk.
Could your company help too? Find out more about becoming a Corporate Supporter.
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Albany Theatre
An Art Deco 620-seat proscenium arch theatre and new flexible 110-seat studio in Coventry, West Midlands. Staging a mixed programme of professional dance, drama, comedy and music alongside community and schools’ performances to promote “Arts for Life”.
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Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
AHMM’s theatre projects offer architecturally elegant, engaging and glamorous designs. Key projects include Nimax’s Soho Place, the West End’s first new theatre for 50 years, as well as reinventions of the Liverpool Royal Court and Birmingham Hippodrome.
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Ambassador Theatre Group
Founded in 1992, ATG is now the world’s number one live-theatre company with close to 50 venues in the UK, the US and Germany. As an international award-winning producer, ATG creates work across the entertainment spectrum.
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Ambassadors Theatre
The Ambassadors Theatre, one of London’s most intimate West End theatres with just 400 seats is now under the ownership of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
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Artifax
Since 1986 Artifax has been providing venue & event management solutions to the arts & cultural community. Our industry experience, passion for the arts and our focus on data security means you can trust us with your venue, events and data.
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Arup
Arup is the specialist designer of some of the world’s most loved performing arts buildings. We are proud to be a trusted, passionate and experienced partner with a signature holistic approach, helping our clients to deliver extraordinary experiences.
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Association of British Theatre Technicians
The ABTT is a charity with membership open to anyone with an interest in theatre design and technology. The Association provides education and promotes excellence in both theatre design and the technical presentation of theatrical works.
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Audience Systems Ltd
Design and installation of retractable and auditorium seating. Manufacturing in the UK, we are known for our bespoke approach and our long-lasting, elegant seating. Clients include The Royal Albert Hall, The Roundhouse and The Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Audio Light Systems
Audio Light Systems is a leading provider of integrated audio visual & lighting solutions. systems integration | audio visual (AV) | lighting | electrical | rigging | specialist design - supply - installation - service
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Austin-Smith:Lord
Austin-Smith:Lord provides architecture, urban design, landscape design, interior design and conservation services to arts & culture projects. Innovation and environmental responsibility are central to our mission, vision & principles.
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Avison Young
Our expertise includes feasibility and strategic advice, planning, assembling teams, project & procurement management and contract administration. Projects include Liverpool Everyman, Bristol Old Vic, Shaftesbury Theatre & Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
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Bennetts Associates
Bennetts Associates is one of the UK’s leading architectural practices, known for its pioneering approach to sustainability and dedication to achieving NetZero Carbon. Recent projects include Woolwich Works, Edinburgh Kings Theatre and BEAM Hertford.
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Bristow Consulting
Bristow has provided independent cost and project management consultancy to the property industry since 1936, focussing on delivering bespoke solutions which minimise risk and maximise value for commercial success.
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Buro Happold
Buro Happold is maximising the impact of cultural venues around the world and defining best practice in the post-pandemic green recovery.
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Capital Theatres
Capital Theatres stage over 700 performances each year at the Festival Theatre, the King's Theatre and The Studio in Edinburgh, featuring drama, dance, musical theatre, live music, comedy and pantomime. They support access to the arts for everyone.
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Charcoalblue
Founded in 2004, Charcoalblue are the world’s leading theatre, acoustic, and experience design consultancy, embedding sustainable practices, celebrating diversity and inclusivity to create extraordinary spaces where stories are told.
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Chichester Festival Theatre
Situated between the South Downs and the sea, Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the UK’s flagship producing theatres renowned for the exceptionally high standard of its productions as well as its work with the community and young people.
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Delfont Mackintosh Theatres
Founded over 30 years ago, Sir Cameron Mackintosh’s Delfont Mackintosh Theatres Ltd own and operate eight prestigious theatres in London’s West End: Gielgud, Noël Coward, Novello, Sondheim, Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, Victoria Palace and Wyndham's.
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Drama By Design
A modern, forward thinking theatre consultancy offering design advice and technical specification for theatre and drama/TV/recording studios. Clients include schools, universities and professional theatres. We work on new and refurbishment projects.
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EM Acoustics
Specialists in the design and manufacture of professional loudspeaker products for the live sound reinforcement and fixed installation markets, EM Acoustics products can be found in the most prominent theatres, concert halls, and live performance spaces.
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Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
The earliest surviving Frank Matcham theatre – originally the Opera House. Now a fully restored 670-seat receiving venue with a 60 seat Irving Studio Theatre, extensive education programme and production company.
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Ferco Seating
Ferco Seating, part of the Kotobuki Seating Group, is one of the largest manufacturers for Theatre, Cinema, Education, Hospitality & Sports seating with offices in the UK and manufacturing facilities in Malaysia.
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Glantre Engineering
We provide Entertainment Technology solutions to the global entertainment industry. Projects include a large-scale audio-visual connectivity solution for the Four Seasons Hotel in Bahrain and Stage Engineering solutions for the Royal Academy of Music.
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Grand Opera House, Belfast
Designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1895 a £12.2m restoration and development project will begin in January 2020 ahead of the theatre’s 125th anniversary in December 2020. Over 295,000 people attended shows and events at the theatre in 2018.
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The Grand Theatre Blackpool
The Grand Theatre was built by Frank Matcham in 1894. Saved from demolition in the 1970’s by a passionate group of local supporters, this beautiful venue is a wonder of restoration and revival: a local resource of national significance.
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Harlequin Floors
The trusted name in floors for the performing arts, Harlequin builds and refurbishes stages in leading venues around the world and manufactures a wide range of vinyl performance floors and reconfigurable sprung floors for dance and theatre.
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Haworth Tompkins
Architectural practice with a global reputation for the design of performance buildings, Haworth Tompkins has won over 100 awards, including RIBA Stirling Prize. Clients include National Theatre, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, and London Theatre Company.
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Hayles & Howe
Hayles & Howe are ornamental plasterers with a long history of theatre restoration. Hayles & Howe have assisted in the development of the ABTT guidelines on Theatre Inspections and can carry out compliant base line surveys and rolling maintenance.
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HQ Theatres
HQ Theatres is the UKs leading specialist regional theatre operator and part of Trafalgar Entertainment. The company operates 12 venues across the country combining excellence in live entertainment programming, venue operations, and food and drink.
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ITC
The Independent Theatre Council represents, supports and develops the professional performing arts in the UK, offering management, legal and financial advice, training opportunities and a professional network for over 500 companies and producers.
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Little Theatre Guild of Great Britain
The LTG has been in existence since 1946 to represent the views of amateur theatres across the UK. Membership is open to amateur theatres that own or lease their theatre premises. We currently have 114 member theatres.
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Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres
Two distinct theatres, almost a mile apart, which make up a single artistic force. Their mission is to reflect the aspirations and concerns of their audiences, dazzle and inspire, welcome and connect, nurture the artists within them and fuel civic pride.
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Locker & Riley
Locker & Riley is a heritage and fibrous plaster specialist. We are internationally renowned for the design, production and installation of the highest quality plasterwork and we provide technical specialist knowledge of plaster restoration to theatres.
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LSI Projects
LSI Projects have over 30 years of experience in the supply and installation of lighting, sound, AV and suspension equipment in theatres, opera houses, conference centres, schools, colleges, universities, and hotels. Turning your building into a venue.
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LW Theatres
Owner operator of six West End Theatres: Adelphi, Cambridge, Her Majesty’s, Gillian Lynne, Palladium and Theatre Royal Drury Lane. With Covid closures, we renovated all venues, whilst major restoration projects continued at Gillian Lynne and Drury Lane.
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Momentum
An award-winning civil and structural engineering practice. Everything we do demonstrates our creative thinking; it’s clever and pragmatic and beautifully functional. Our projects include adaptable theatres and spectacular stage sets.
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Mousetrap Productions Ltd and the St Martin’s Theatre
Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen and Adam Spiegel produce the world’s longest running play, The Mousetrap, at the St. Martin’s, a Grade II listed theatre, The Mousetrap is now in its 67th year.
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Nederlander
Nederlander is now in its 105th year and 3rd generation of family ownership, management and production of live entertainments. It owns 27 theatres (London – Dominion, Aldwych and Adelphi) and is among the biggest producers of theatre shows in the world.
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New Mills Art Theatre
A unique, 500 seat theatre for the entire community, by the community. We are a volunteer-based organisation promoting quality community theatre experiences by providing educational opportunities and entertainment in the theatrical arts.
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New Vic Theatre
The New Vic was built in 1986 as Europe's first purpose-built theatre-in-the-round. Our theatre programme engages over 150,000 people each year and is complemented by an award-winning community programme, education work and an arts engagement programme.
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Nimax Theatres
Formed in 2005 by producers Nica Burns OBE & Max Weitzenhoffer, Nimax Theatres currently owns and operates 6 West End Theatres. Nica is building a new theatre with Derwent London Ltd on Charing Cross Road.
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Ornate Interiors
Specialist plastering company with over 25 years’ experience. We can help execute theatre restorations to award winning standards including undertaking ceiling inspections. Completed projects include Hammersmith Apollo and Stockport Plaza.
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Ornate Plaster (London) Ltd
We are a historic plaster restoration and conservation specialist with an established reputation. We recently completed the following projects to time and budget: Victoria Palace, Wyndhams, Gielgud and Sondheim theatres.
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Plann
Plann is a specialist consultancy helping theatres run and manage capital projects. From £50k refurbs to £50m national scale projects, Plann can provide strategic advice, project management, theatre consultancy and client support throughout.
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pointOne EPoS
We develop and deliver innovative EPoS solutions for the arts sector to manage interval ordering and ticketing integration, as well as focused learning and support. With over 70+ theatre venue clients, we are the go-to EPoS partner for the arts sector.
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Robolights
We design develop & manufacture innovative technical equipment for theatre and live event industries around the globe, specialising in lighting & audio facility panels & custom power, our clients include Systems Integrators & Regional & West End Theatres.
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Stage Right Theatre Consultants (SRTC )
SRTC is a theatre consultancy practice offering global experience to regional projects, providing expert services in theatre and venue design and planning, auditoria design, stage engineering, stage lighting, AV and client representation.
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Higher education conservatoire. With over 60 academic staff, Central has the largest grouping of drama/theatre/performance specialists in the UK, an active research culture and is a hub for the theatre and performance industries.
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The Society for Theatre Research
The STR is for all those with an interest in British theatre and performance. It publishes books and a journal, puts on a series of lectures, acts as an advisory body on theatrical matters, offers research grants and hosts an annual Theatre Book Prize.
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Shanklin Theatre
In 2010, Isle of Wight Council voted to close Shanklin Theatre. Subsequently, Shanklin Theatre Limited was formed to operate the venue. The Friends of Shanklin Theatre provide the mainstay of staff to run and manage the Grade II listed, 615-seat theatre.
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Stage Electrics
Stage Electrics is a specialised supplier and installer of stage lighting, sound, audio-visual technology, rigging, and staging. Their services encompass equipment sales, installation, and electrical and mechanical inspection and testing.
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Theatre Projects
We are an international, award-winning consultancy specialising in the design, acoustics, technology, and operation of performance venues. From conception to opening, our aim is to design exceptional venues that are sustainable and well-used.
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Theatre Royal Bath
The beautifully refurbished Grade II* Theatre Royal, dating from 1805, features three unique auditoria. Audiences of 250,000 a year from a 50 miles radius and beyond make it one of the most successful regional theatres.
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Theatre Royal Plymouth
A cultural centre for the south west, TRP specialise in the production of new plays and producing musicals and drama. We have a broad and significant engagement and learning programme and an award-winning production and learning centre, TR2.
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Theatre Royal Wakefield
The smallest surviving Matcham, we are a producing and receiving house that attracts 80k visitors a year. We also tours the UK alongside the John Godber Co. Our Centre for Creativity is a major extension with a studio theatre, café and learning facility.
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Theatreplan
Theatreplan is one of the world’s leading theatre consultancies, providing pioneering design for new and existing theatre venues around the globe. For us, performance is everything.
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Torpedo Factory Group Ltd
We create performance spaces with real impact. Theatre's in our blood and we love bringing our creativity and experience to all types of performance venue. From design and installation to sales and hire we're here to guide you through the whole journey.
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Tysers
Tysers provides insurance for a variety of events across the entertainment world. We advise over 130 theatres and venues in the UK, ranging from fringe theatres to many in the West End. And because you operate around the clock, we’re always available.
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UK Theatre
UK Theatre is the leading membership organisation for theatre and the performing arts. Members benefit from access to a range of professional services, high quality training, events and networking opportunities.
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Unusual
The UK's most experienced provider of rigging/stage engineering solutions, specialising in designing and sourcing top-tier solutions for projects of any size. Our extensive experience ensures every project is handled with equal dedication and expertise.
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Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Theatre and Performance
The V&A holds the UKs national collection of the performing arts, documenting current and historical practice. The collections are on display in the Theatre & Performance gallery and through touring exhibitions. Material may be viewed at Blythe House.