Easton's Bible Dictionary: M. G. Easton, M.A., D.D.
Only mentioned in Acts 19:29, 31. The ruins of this theatre at Ephesus still exist, and they show that it was a magnificent structure, capable of accommodating some 56, 700 persons. It was the largest structure of the kind that ever existed. Theatres, as places of amusement, were unknown to the Jews.