List of dinner theaters

This is a list of dinner theaters. Dinner theater (sometimes called "dinner and a show") is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged play or musical. Sometimes the play is incidental entertainment, secondary to the meal, in the style of a sophisticated night club, or the play may be a major production with dinner less important, or in some cases, optional. Dinner theater requires the management of three distinct entities: a live theater, a restaurant, and usually a bar.

Dinner theaters[]

The Desert Star Theater

The interior of Encore Dinner Theatre

Manor Pro Wrestling Dinner Theater, Kissimmee, Florida

Alhambra Dinner Theatre – Jacksonville, Florida
Australian Outback Spectacular – Australian chain of theme restaurants
Battle of the Dance – Anaheim, California, defunct
– Boulder, Colorado^[1] Formed in 1977, a playhouse that puts on Broadway-type shows while supplying eats from around the world.
– Johnstown, Colorado^[2]
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres – Chanhassen, Minnesota, since 1968
Country Dinner Playhouse – Greenwood Village, Colorado
Derby Dinner Playhouse – Clarksville, Indiana
Desert Star Theater – Murray, Utah; listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places It was later closed down and demolished, but rebuilt and expanded into the Iris Theater. The Iris then changed hands several times before being renamed the Vista.
The Dinner Detective^[3] – a nationwide theatrical production company based within the United States
Dolly Parton's Stampede – a chain of dinner theaters located in the United States that are owned by entertainer Dolly Parton and managed by World Choice Investments LLC, a joint venture between The Dollywood Company, Fred Hardwick, and Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation
Drury Lane Theatre – a suburban Chicago theatre group, the original of which operated as a dinner theatre from 1958 to 2003 before closing.
Encore Dinner Theatre – Tustin, California
Fireside Theatre – Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
Fulton Theatre – was located at West 46th Street in New York City for a few months in 1911 under the name Folies-Bergere; demolished
Gaslight Theatre – Enid, Oklahoma
Joy Swift's Original Murder Weekends – headquartered in Liverpool with shows in six cities across the United Kingdom
La Comedia Dinner Theatre – Springboro, Ohio
Laurie Beechman Theatre – in the basement of the West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42nd Street in the Manhattan Plaza apartment complex, just west of Times Square
Medieval Times – chain of medieval-themed restaurants, featuring a tournament with sword-fighting and jousting
The Mill at Sonning – converted from an 18th-century flour mill, it is located on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in the English county of Oxfordshire
– Hudson Valley, New York-based (formerly Las Vegas, Nevada) since 1998
New Theater Restaurant – Overland Park, Kansas
Pirates Dinner Adventures
Pirates Voyage Dinner and Show – a dinner theater that features Blackbeard, a pirate with a history along the North and South Carolina coasts
Riverside Inn – Cambridge Springs, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places; destroyed by fire in 2017
– St. Petersburg, Florida, a popular Tampa Bay venue in the 1970s–1980s, featuring popular stars of stage and screen, such as Dorothy Lamour, Hayden Rorke, Cesar Romero, and Myrna Loy^[4]
Stagedoor Dinner Theatre – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Teatro ZinZanni – a circus dinner theater that began in the neighborhood of Lower Queen Anne in Seattle, Washington;^[5] expanded to a site on the waterfront at Pier 29 on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California
Toby's Dinner Theatre – Columbia, Maryland
Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre – Frederick, Maryland