ou can provide various forms of entertainment in your cities. You must build both the venue where a show takes place, and a base for the entertainers who will perform there. Larger venues allow more spectators to watch. Venues, in order of increasing size, are the theater, the amphitheater, the colosseum and the hippodrome. Actors are trained at an actors' colony; gladiators learn their skills at a gladiator school; lions are tamed at a lion house; and charioteers are trained, and their chariots built, at a charioteer school.

Just building the venue alone has a very small benefit, as long as it has road access and employees. Without performers, the venue's staff become a little desperate, and tries to entertain people there themselves – though the results are barely better than nothing at all.

Each performer school trains specialists to entertain the crowds. Once trained, the performers walk to suitable venues, where they put on a show for a set period of time. After that time runs out, the show is over. Unless another performer has started a new show, the entertainment value given by that venue falls.

Entertainers walking through the streets let houses know that they have access to entertainment. If a house is quite close to an active venue with lots of current shows, but no performer walks past it, the house gains no benefit.

Performers are often strange people who make undesirable neighbors. Actors are the only exception to this: their drama is conside red to be of such a high level that their presence adds a mild boost to an area's desirability. Noise and danger, coupled with the stench of blood, make gladiator schools, lion houses and charioteer schools bad for an area's desirability.