| Early playhouses such as the Theatre and the Curtain had no substantial cover over the stage, only a turret-like tiring house with perhaps a short pentice extension. |
| Keep large plastic toys, like playhouses and slides, outdoors or at least away from your child's sleeping area. |
| Individual dressing rooms were not a feature of Elizabethan playhouses, so actors were to dress in whatever open space they could find. |
| The streets were filled with alehouses, gambling dens and brothels, and the public was entertained by street performers, playhouses, and spectacles such as bear baiting. |
| The playhouses where Shakespeare worked resounded with the clash of arms and the noise of cannon fire. |
| It might be big business in some of our larger playhouses, but elsewhere around the country theatres are developing a new tradition of Christmas children's show. |
