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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 [ 7 ]
Apollo Theater Chicago [54] Arie Crown Theatre [55] Auditorium Theatre [56] Briar Street Theater [57] Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (formerly Drury Lane Water Tower Place) [58] Bughouse Theater; Cadillac Palace Theatre [59] Chicago Theatre [60] CIBC Theatre (formerly The Shubert Theatre) [61] Congress Theater [62] Greenhouse Theater ...
The Drury Lane Theatres were a group of five theatres in the Chicago metropolitan area founded by Tony DeSantis. The playhouses were named after the historic Theatre Royal Drury Lane, built in London in the 17th century. The five locations all provided affordable dinner theatre that was appropriate for families. [1]
This category is for articles about theatre venues. For theatre companies see Category:Theatre companies in Chicago . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Theaters in Chicago .
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]
His five suburban Chicago locations all provided affordable dinner theatre that was appropriate for families. DeSantis claimed that alcohol sales were profitable; if you broke even when operating a theatre, you were successful. [4] Drury Lane Evergreen Park was DeSantis' first theatre in the Chicago area. It opened in 1958 and was a local ...
Illinois Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, c.1909. The young settlement of Chicago in 1834 saw its first commercial production by a fire eater and ventriloquist, Mr. Brown. In 1837, the first resident theater company, the short-lived Chicago Theater, opened in the Sauganash Hotel.
The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois is a respected Chicago area regional theatre. Attached to the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort, the theatre produces an average of five musicals each year, presented in the round, as well as productions aimed at younger audiences. [1] A small, live orchestra provides accompaniment.