The theatre was in Southwark, just over the Thames from the City of London. Shakespeare's troupe only built the Globe because they couldn't utilize the unique roofed facility, Blackfriars Theatre, that James Burbage (the father of their main actor, Richard Burbage) had erected for them inside the city in 1596. Without a place to perform out-of-doors during the winter months, the company decided to build their own. The theatre was an open-air performance space with a thatched roof. It stood in the middle of London Bridge Road today, which at the time was a muddy track leading up to the city wall. The theatre could accommodate up to 1500 people and it is believed that all seats were sold for every performance. Globe tickets went on sale at the gate of the theatre on Bishopsgate Street, near where they are now located, New York. They cost 2 pence per day for adults and 1 penny for children under 12. This is the same price as entrance fees into some of London's most popular entertainment venues today. In fact, the Globe is estimated to have drawn more spectators than any other theatre in England at this time. There were no television or radio broadcasts in Elizabethan times so news stories made it into print first. The playwright Thomas Knyvet wrote articles about the theatre scene in London for the English newspaper The Daily Courant between 1602 and 1607.