evenings throughout October and November, with Friday being added eventually thanks to popular demand. During early performances, a group of people, including a man named George Bellmont, invaded the playhouse, assaulting the actors and destroying costumes and pieces of the sets. This preceded into a fight between the actors and Bellmont's group. Bellmont and a number of his group were arrested after the attack. Very little is known about the interior of the Theatre or its settings, though it has been described by patrons in a negative light as "pathetic and ominous", and "resembling a dirty kitchen", harking back to the theatre's humble origins as a local hangout. These descriptions are also indicative of the theatre's lack of commercial success and proper funding. The theatre contained a room for an orchestra, which was composed of two white men, and one black. The auditorium included a box, pit, and gallery, with exceptionally high prices of 75, 50, and 37 cents. When trying to summarize the activities of the African Theatre, it is important to note that the known record remains incomplete. Rather than placing advertisements or articles in any newspapers about performances, Brown generally just handed playbills and advertisements out on the streets and invited people to the theatre. The African Theatre productions were not taken seriously by any journalists of important newspapers, resulting in the performances being ignored by the press for the most part. During the first year it changed from only being directed towards the Black community to being directed at New Yorkers in general, which meant that the white audience grew significantly. Many of the performers were servants in their day jobs, and many of their employers would attend the theatre at night. The issues relating to the theatre on Mercer and Bleeker prompted another change in venue, this time to the City Hotel, a venue with better accommodation and in a better location. This new location also happened to be next door to the Park Theatre, a well established white theatre. A controversy ensued among the white theatre patrons, who claimed that the African Theatre patrons were too riotous of character, and as a result the police would eventually mandate that the African Theatre announce their last performance. Defying the authorities, the theatre continued to put on nightly performances. Despite its best efforts, however, the theatre was eventually forced to return to the prior location on