• Roof that opens over the main hall, so some shows can run in daylight the way they did in Shakespeare's time
• Tours are in Polish: the guided tour and the hour-long walk with an actor playing Shakespeare are sold as Polish-language sessions
• Next to the old town, near the Golden Gate, Neptune's Fountain and Długa Street, so it fits into a day of sightseeing

The theater stands where a 17th-century fencing school once hosted English traveling actors performing Shakespeare. Its anthracite-brick shell hides a wooden main hall rebuilt as an Elizabethan playhouse, under a roof that opens in three minutes.

Guided tours take visitors onto the stage and behind the scenes, and some are led by an actor playing Shakespeare, or by Puck on a night tour. The theater also runs workshops for children.