{"id":22694,"date":"2013-06-17T21:10:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T21:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8ce250469d.nxcli.io\/?p=22694"},"modified":"2020-08-23T00:34:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:34:49","slug":"atgs-howard-panter-receives-knighthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment-focus.com\/2013\/06\/17\/atgs-howard-panter-receives-knighthood\/","title":{"rendered":"ATG&#8217;s Howard Panter receives knighthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Panter, the Creative Director of the Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd (ATG) has received a Knighthood in The Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours List 2013 for services to theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Panter said: \u201cI am absolutely delighted to have been recognised in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours List and humbled to receive this prestigious award. It a source of great pride that Britain continues to recognise those within our world-renowned creative industries, and in particular in theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panter has been a key figure in theatre for more than 40 years. Alongside his wife and business partner, Rosemary Squire OBE, Panter has topped The Stage 100 four times consecutively, from 2010 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Under Panter\u2019s leadership, ATG has become the UK\u2019s leading Theatre Group and one of the most prolific theatre producers in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen honours renowned theatre creative director. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[675],"tags":[6480,166,167],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.6 (Yoast SEO v22.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ATG&#039;s Howard Panter receives knighthood - 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