Portal:Theatre/DYK/19

...that Danny Kaye, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Abbott and Costello and Sammy Davis Jr. are among the performers to have graced the stage of the Howard Theatre (pictured) in Washington, D.C.?
...that the rise of ticket prices in the new Covent Garden Theatre led to the so-called Old Price Riots, which lasted for more than two months in 1809?
...that by 1608, performances of William Shakespeare's plays had become popular enough that his playing company was able to act indoors, in the Blackfriars Theatre?

More did you know facts

Source[edit]