This is a list of dinner theaters. Dinner theater (sometimes called "dinner and a show") is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurantmeal 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.
BDT Stage (Boulder’s Dinner Theatre) – Boulder, Colorado[1] Formed in 1977, a playhouse that puts on Broadway-type shows while supplying eats from around the world.
Chaffin's Barn - Nashville, Tennessee's first professional theater, Chaffin's Barn opened in 1967.[3] The dinner theatre was forced to close in October 2020, after 50 years of business due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]
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[5] – 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.
The Barn Dinner Theatre (Greensboro) - Greensboro, North Carolina - was founded in 1964,and is the oldest continuously running dinner theater in America and the last of the original Barn Dinner Theatres.[6]
Murder Cafe – Hudson Valley, New York-based (formerly Las Vegas, Nevada) since 1998
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
Roger Rocka's Dinner Theater – Fresno, California, dinner and a musical or play put on by the Good Company Players
