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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

Iris Theatre
The Desert Star Theater
Encore Dinner Theatre interior
The interior of Encore Dinner Theatre
Manor Pro Wrestling Dinner Theater
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)
  • BDT Stage (Boulder’s Dinner Theatre) – Boulder, Colorado Formed in 1977, a playhouse that puts on Broadway-type shows while supplying eats from around the world.
  • Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre – Indianapolis, Indiana (since 1973)
  • Candlelight Dinner Playhouse – Johnstown, Colorado
  • Chanhassen Dinner Theatres – Chanhassen, Minnesota (since 1968)
  • Country Dinner Playhouse – Greenwood Village, Colorado
  • 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.
  • The Dinner Detective – 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
  • Murder Cafe – 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
  • Roger Rocka's Dinner Theater – Fresno, California, dinner and a musical or play put on by the Good Company Players
  • Showboat Dinner Theatre – 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
  • Stagedoor Dinner Theatre – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • Teatro ZinZanni – a circus dinner theater that began in the neighborhood of Lower Queen Anne in Seattle, Washington; 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
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