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 and in some cases it is optional. Dinner theater requires the management of three distinct entities: a live theater, a restaurant, and usually a bar.
Dinner theaters
North America
- Alhambra Dinner Theatre – Jacksonville, Florida, 1967
- Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre – Indianapolis, Indiana (since 1973)
- Derby Dinner Playhouse – Clarksville, Indiana (since 1974)
- 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.
- 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.
- Encore Dinner Theatre – Tustin, California
See also
- Lists of restaurants
- Lists of theatres
- Madrigal dinner
- Mystery dinner
- Luau
References
- Charles Campbell. Vaudeville lives in Seattle Straight, May 26, 2005, retrieved 30 September 2011^