RSC box office

Fact of the day: London theatre sold 22 million tickets last year, at a cost of £618.5 million.

Fact of the day: Broadway enjoys best year ever in 2014, with 13.13 million people attending shows, up 13 per cent on 2013, and box office takings totalling $1.362bn, up 14 per cen…

Facts of the day: last year, audiences at the Royal Shakespeare Company drank 318,000 alcoholic drinks, 226,000 hot drinks and ate 82,000 ice creams.

Fact of the day: The Society of London Theatre’s TKTS ticket booth in Leicester Square sold 58 per cent more tickets in the week ending 30 July than in the previous week.