{"id":2480351,"date":"2026-06-29T12:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2480351"},"modified":"2026-06-29T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:45:41","slug":"trafalgar-entertainment-acquires-nicholas-hytners-bridge-theatre-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/trafalgar-entertainment-acquires-nicholas-hytners-bridge-theatre-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Trafalgar Entertainment acquires Nicholas Hytner\u2019s Bridge theatre | Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Bridge theatre in London, opened in 2017 by the former National Theatre duo Nicholas Hytner<\/a> and Nick Starr, has been acquired by Trafalgar Entertainment in a sale that also includes the Lightroom venue for immersive art shows. Trafalgar Entertainment now owns the duo\u2019s London Theatre Company (LTC).<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter nine years, it feels like the right time to be moving on,\u201d said Hytner, who described establishing the Bridge theatre<\/a> \u2013 which has a flexible 900-seat auditorium \u2013 as a \u201cthrilling experience\u201d. Hytner directed several of the Bridge\u2019s hits, including its opening promenade-style production of Julius Caesar<\/a> and a long-running Guys and Dolls<\/a> which ended with the audience dancing alongside the actors. Away from the Bridge, Hytner recently directed Giant<\/a> at the Royal Court \u2013 which transferred to the West End and Broadway \u2013 and is staging James Graham\u2019s new play, The Standard of Living<\/a>, in the West End in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more admiring of the artists and colleagues who have been responsible for making so many memorable productions and creating a theatre that has quickly become a favourite destination for audiences,\u201d said Hytner. \u201cAnd I\u2019m extremely grateful to those audiences for their enthusiasm and loyalty.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Nicholas Hytner in 2017, the year he launched the Bridge theatre.<\/span> Photograph: Murdo Macleod\/The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hytner and Starr worked together at the National Theatre<\/a> for more than a decade, the former as artistic director and the latter as executive director. Starr, co-founder and outgoing CEO of LTC, said: \u201cWhen we began this project, we wanted to build a theatre that felt genuinely contemporary \u2013 flexible, ambitious and open to as many people as possible. Since then, the Bridge has become home to an extraordinary range of productions and artists and has shown how adaptable and resilient theatre can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire, founders and joint CEOs of Trafalgar Entertainment, said: \u201cThe Bridge is a successful and much-loved part of London\u2019s cultural offer, and Lightroom is establishing itself as a major London<\/a> attraction. Our focus is on maintaining that momentum in both spaces. We are attuned to what the Bridge means to its audience, what is required to support its growth, development, sustainability and continued success \u2013 and proud to play a part in taking the London Theatre Company into its next phase, creating opportunities, new partnerships, and creative collaborations with producers \u2013 adding to what makes it so special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Panter and Squire founded Trafalgar Entertainment in 2017. It operates more than 20 venues in the UK and Australia, including Trafalgar theatre in the West End and the 1,575-seat British Airways theatre, set to open in west London next year.<\/p>\n

Lightroom<\/a> in King\u2019s Cross has presented immersive shows about David Hockney, Vogue and David Bowie. LTC\u2019s next production at the Bridge, which is located near Tower Bridge, is The Oresteia, written and directed by Simon Stone after Aeschylus. It replaced Stone\u2019s version of Chekhov\u2019s Ivanov<\/a>, which was postponed to summer 2027 after a \u201cscheduling issue\u201d for its star, Chris Pine. The Bridge\u2019s Olivier award-winning musical Into the Woods transfers to the West End in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theguardian.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bridge theatre in London, opened in 2017 by the former National Theatre duo Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, has been acquired by Trafalgar Entertainment in a sale that also includes the Lightroom venue for immersive art shows. Trafalgar Entertainment now owns the duo\u2019s London Theatre Company (LTC). \u201cAfter nine years, it feels like the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2480352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Trafalgar-Entertainment-acquires-Nicholas-Hytners-Bridge-theatre-Theatre.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480353,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480351\/revisions\/2480353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}