some facts that I didn't know are:

• The word theater means a “place for seeing”


•  Prehistoric hunters acted out stories about their hunting expeditions.


• Theater buildings were not permitted throughout Europe during medieval times


•  traveling players, known as minstrels, kept the theater alive along with acrobats, puppeteers, jugglers and storytellers.


• During an Easter Sunday service, priests acted out the meaning of the holy day to help teach people who could not read.