Some lawyers drew packed houses, and often the cases were decided on common sense rather than any point of law.

The performances of the Suomenlinna summer theatre regularly draw full houses.

Today he was drawing houses, all with the proper perspective of course.

On one side of the tracks, he drew several tiny houses, clustered together.

Imaginative, moving and eminently theatrical, the production drew full houses for three weeks in Paris before recently going on tour.

The play was a big success, drawing full houses everywhere it played.

It earned critical praise for both the author and his daughter, and drew sold-out houses.

"Pa" is very funny and should draw crowded houses.

"For two years after that, I was always drawing houses and making models of them," he said.

He has been a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe, drawing full houses in 2011 and 2012.