Mystery dinner
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A mystery dinner is a popular type of dinner theater
in which the play is a murder mystery, and the diners are invited to solve the mystery as they eat and watch the play. In many mystery dinners, there is no separate stage from the eating area; the eating area is the stage, and actors are mixed in with the diners—and often improvise dialog with diners—creating a more immersive atmosphere.
There are numerous mystery dinner theaters throughout the United States and United Kingdom. There are also kits available for "hosting your own murder mystery dinner" at home, as well as troupes of actors who perform (and cater) mystery dinners in client's homes.
Active mystery dinner theaters include:
Dinner theater
Dinner theater 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...
in which the play is a murder mystery, and the diners are invited to solve the mystery as they eat and watch the play. In many mystery dinners, there is no separate stage from the eating area; the eating area is the stage, and actors are mixed in with the diners—and often improvise dialog with diners—creating a more immersive atmosphere.
There are numerous mystery dinner theaters throughout the United States and United Kingdom. There are also kits available for "hosting your own murder mystery dinner" at home, as well as troupes of actors who perform (and cater) mystery dinners in client's homes.
Active mystery dinner theaters include:
- Mystery Dinner Playhouse in Virginia and Washington, D.C.
- The Dinner Detective in California and Colorado
- The Spy House in Albuquerque, NM
- VAMP Shows Mystery Dinners throughout the Midwest
- Without A Cue Productions, LLC murder mystery dinner theater in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Syracuse areas.
- The Killing Game, Murder Mystery dinners and weekends throughout the UK