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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; Murry's Dinner Playhouse Little Rock, Arkansas ...
After 2000, new dinner theaters began opening. Chicago's original Drury Lane Water Tower Place was founded in 1976, but closed in 1983. A new $7 million version opened in 2004. [9] The Desert Star Theater in Murray, Utah opened a dinner theater in 2004 [34] and the Gathering Dinner Theatre in Jacksonville opened in early 2009. [1]
Desert Star Theater is a dinner theater establishment in Murray, Utah. It started out as a small theater called the Gem , which showed silent movies with a piano for music. It was later closed down and demolished, but rebuilt and expanded into the Iris Theater by owner Tony Duvall.
A new, $7 million version opened on May 18, 2004. [2] In 2010, this was taken over by the Nederlander Organization-owned Broadway In Chicago production company and renamed the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place. Drury Lane North began operations in 1976, but was soon sold to the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort and became the Marriott Theatre. [2]
Fireside Dinner Theater is a historic dinner theater and special events venue in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The original building and several expansions were designed by Fort Atkinson-based architect Helmut Ajango, who also designed The Gobbler, and built in 1964. A nearby building was purchased for conversion into a theater and added to the ...
The theatre was originally founded in 1979 as the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater, owned and operated by the namesake actor. During the Dinner Theater's operating years, 1979-1996, it featured more celebrity performers than any other arts venue in Palm Beach County, including the opening season's Vanities (starring Sally Field, Tyne Daly, and Gail Strickland). [2]
Eighteen-year-old Mae West was discovered here by The New York Times at her Broadway debut on September 22, 1911. [2] [3] Closing after that, [4] the theatre reopened on October 20, 1911, as the Fulton Theatre, a conventional playhouse. [5] The theatre was managed by Abraham L. Erlanger from 1921, until his death in 1930.
Adult admission on opening night was 36 cents, plus four cents tax, and a child's admission was 20 cents. The theater was originally owned by Rosenfield, Hopp and Company. In 1976, the theater was purchased by Denny Hitchcock and remodeled. It reopened in 1977 as the Circa 21 Playhouse, a dinner theater.