There are four main groups who own the West End (see below for a breakdown of their venues): Delfont Macktintosh Theatres, controlled by producer impresario Cameron Mackintosh; LW Theatres, controlled by musicals composer Andrew Lloyd Webber; ATG, or Ambassador Theatre Group, which is the largest theatre owner by number of venues; Nimax Theatres, which is controlled by Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer; and The Nederlander Organization, an American entertainment company which also has a part share of the Adelphi Theatre.
The outliers are the independently run venues, including the Shaftesbury Theatre, which is owned by DLT Entertainment; the Theatre Royal Haymarket, which is owned by Access Entertainment; St Martin’s Theatre, which is still owned by the same family who built it, Lord Willoughby de Broke and his family; the Trafalgar Theatre, owned by Trafalgar Entertainment which owns other theatres in the UK and worldwide, but currently only one main West End venue; The Other Palace owned by producer Bill Kenwright; and the Bridge Theatre, run by Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr.
In terms of theatres run as non-profit charities but that do not get a subsidy, these include The Old Vic and Shakespeare’s Globe.
Subsidised venues include the National Theatre, the Royal Court, Sadler’s Wells and the Peacock Theatre, the Barbican Centre, South Bank Centre, the London Coliseum (via English National Opera), and the Royal Opera House.
Also see: Society of London Theatre – Members | Broadway Theatres – Ownership
Delfont Mackintosh Theatres
Gielgud Theatre London
Noël Coward Theatre London
Novello Theatre London
Prince Edward Theatre London
Prince of Wales Theatre London
Sondheim Theatre London
Victoria Palace Theatre London
Wyndham’s Theatre London
LW Theatres
Adelphi Theatre London
Cambridge Theatre London
Gillian Lynne Theatre London
His Majesty’s Theatre London
London Palladium
Theatre Royal Drury Lane London
ATG
Ambassadors Theatre London
Apollo Victoria Theatre London
Fortune Theatre London
Harold Pinter Theatre London
Lyceum Theatre London
New Wimbledon Theatre London
Phoenix Theatre London
Piccadilly Theatre London
Playhouse Theatre London (Kit Kat Club)
Richmond Theatre London
Savoy Theatre London
The Tom Stoppard Theatre London
Nimax Theatres
@sohoplace London
Apollo Theatre London
Duchess Theatre London
Garrick Theatre London
Lyric Theatre London
Palace Theatre London
Vaudeville Theatre London
The Nederlander Organization
Aldwych Theatre London
Dominion Theatre London
The Shakespeare Globe Trust
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse London
Shakespeare’s Globe London
Trafalgar Theatres
British Airways Theatre London
Churchill Theatre Bromley London
Trafalgar Theatre London
DLT Entertainment
Shaftesbury Theatre London
Bill Kenwright Ltd
The Other Palace London
Access Entertainment
