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- . You can fit the whole of the Fortune Theatre on the stage of the Dominion Theatre.
2. Shakespeare's Globe is the only building in London allowed to have a thatched roof since the Great Fire in 1666.
3. Brian Blessed has survived a plane crash, had a boxing match with the Dalai Lama, is the oldest man to have trekked to the North Pole, and helped deliver a baby in Richmond Park.
4. The building of the Garrick Theatre was especially difficult as it had an underground river running beneath it.
5. William Shakespeare once lived in a house on the present-day site of the Barbican Centre.
6. Ivor Novello lived above the Novello Theatre for nearly 40 years.
7. Two seats are permanently bolted open at the Palace Theatre for the theatre ghosts to sit in.
8. William Shakespeare once had to play Lady Macbeth when Hal Berridge, the boy playing her, died suddenly.
9. The term "off-roadwa isn't geographical. Broadway theatres have 500 seats, off-Broadway have 100–499 seats, and off-Broadway have less than 100 seats.
10. Noel Coward ran the British propaganda office in Paris during World War II
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