Bill Pullinsi was a theater student in 1959 who conceived and implemented the entertainment concept at the Presidential Arms Hotel during summer breaks. The first facility where dinner and the show were together in one room was the Candlelight Theatre Restaurant in Washington, D.C. It closed after 13 years, in part due to nearby competition from Broadway and Actors' Equity Association (Equity) requirements that the facility follow the rules that applied to Broadway theatres, including pay scales and other restrictions. Meadowbrook Theatre Restaurant Ĭedar Grove, New Jersey, was the location of the Meadowbrook Theatre Restaurant, which opened in 1960 with 700+ seats of table service. The facility uses local performers and shows are limited to musicals. Drury Lane Oak Brook Terrace opened in 1984.
Drury Lane North began operations in 1976 and was sold to the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort, becoming the Marriott Theatre. It was the first of six dinner theaters he started and a local entertainment fixture for 45 years before closing in 2003. The enterprise was successful, prompting him to build his first theater, Drury Lane Evergreen Park in 1958. Tony DeSantis opened the Martinique Restaurant in Evergreen Park, Illinois and began producing plays in 1949 in a tent adjacent to the restaurant to attract customers. After the theatre was established, an adjoining room in the theatre was changed to accommodate a buffet dinner for groups attending the performance, eventually becoming available to all patrons. Notable venues in the United States Barksdale Theatre īarksdale Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, founded in 1953 by David and Nancy Kilgore at the Hanover Tavern, was the first formal dinner theater in the United States. Some early dinner theaters, known as "theatre restaurants", served dinner in one room and staged the play in another. The Madrigal dinners in the Renaissance were early forms of dinner theater. Dinner theater requires the management of three distinct entities: a live theater, a restaurant and, usually, a bar. In the style of a night club, the play may be the main feature of the evening, with dinner less important or optional. In the case of a theatrical performance, sometimes the play is incidental entertainment, secondary to the meal. "Dinner and a show" can also refer to a restaurant meal in combination with live concert music, where patrons listen to a performance during a break in the meal. ( January 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭinner theater (sometimes called dinner and a show) is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged play or musical. You may improve this article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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