StageDoor Dinner Theatre was officially opened on 17 July 2002 by Judy Cornwall (Daisy from Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. Centred on the life of eccentric, social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket , the sitcom portrays a social hierarchy-ruled British society...

). StageDoor Dinner Theatre is Brisbane's first permanent dinner theatre, with more than 54 productions to date.

The dinner theatre is located in the lower level of the Twelfth Night Theatre

Twelfth Night Theatre

thumb|250px|Twelfth Night TheatreThe Twelfth Night Theatre is an established Australian entertainment venue located in Bowen Hills, in Brisbane, Queensland. Australian actors such as Rowena Wallace, Sigrid Thornton, Judith McGrath, Jon English, June Salter, Penny Downie, Carol Burns, Kate Wilson,...

 complex in Bowen Hills, Brisbane. This is the permanent home to Starbuck Productions, a Queensland based production company. Starbuck was established in early 1990s and has produced live entertainment in venues such as the Queensland Performing Arts Centre

Queensland Performing Arts Centre

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre is part of the Queensland Cultural Centre and is located on the corner of Melbourne Street and Grey Street in Brisbane's South Bank precinct....

, The Suncorp Piazza

Suncorp Piazza

thumb|250px|alt=Suncorp Piazza|Northern side of the piazza.The Suncorp Piazza is a multi-purpose venue in Brisbane, Australia. It was inspired by the popular Piazza performance venue built for World Expo 88 and remains today at South Bank Parklands, the transformed Expo site...

, Seagulls International Showroom, the Twelfth Night Theatre and in regional touring venues throughout south east Queensland.

Productions have included Hollywood Legend Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award...

, Rhonda Burchmore

Rhonda Burchmore

Rhonda Suzanne Burchmore is an Australian entertainer.Born in Sydney, Rhonda has been performing since the age of two, trained in singing, acting and dancing and was awarded a scholarship to the University of New England where she majored in Theatre Arts.She became internationally known for her...

, The Australian Tom Jones

Tom Jones (singer)

Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...

 Spectacular and Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors (musical)

Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman...

.

The company is owned and run by radio and television producer and performer Damien Lee and dance school proprietor Doreen Thomas. Now at the StageDoor Dinner Theatre they have produced the classic Neil Simon comedy The Odd Couple, Dan Goggin's Nunsense, the award winning rock musical Return To The Forbidden Planet, the family Christmas Pantomime SC Superstar, the New Year's cabaret Rock Down The Clock, the heartwarming British drama Beautiful Thing, and the Southern Hemisphere Premiere of Gilligan's Island: The Musical.

StageDoor has also held a number of single performance shows, for example featuring Tom Burlinson

Tom Burlinson

Tom Burlinson is an Australian actor and singer.He attended Pittwater High School on Sydney's Northern Beaches and was the School Captain in his final year...

, Amanda Muggleton

Amanda Muggleton

Amanda Lillian Muggleton is a British-born theatre, television and film actress. She is best known for her role on television soap opera Prisoner.-Early life:Muggleton was born in Stepney, London in 1951 and emigrated to Australia in 1974...

 and more recently Ian Maurice.

2010

• The Great Easter Egg Hunt - 10 - 18 April
• Dare to be Bare - March - April
• Rocky Horror Show - February - March

2009

• Back to the 70s 80s 90s - 31 December
• G'Day Santa - 5 December - 24 December
• Club 80s - 23 October - 19 December
• No News is Good News - 15 August - 17 October
• Super Family Fun Show - 19 September - 4 October
• Death Trap - 19 June - 8 August
• Stiff - 17 April - 13 June 2008
• I Have a Hunch - 13 February - 111 April

2008

• Pop Goes the 70s - 31 December
• Spaced Out Santa - 6 December - 24 December
• Solid Gold Disco - 22 October - 20 December
• Mavis Bramston Reloaded - 20 August - 18 October
• How to Get Almost Anyone to Sleep with You - 10 October
• Stagedoor Unplugged - 18 June - 16 August
• Little Tin Soldier - 30 June - 13 July
• Ian Maurice's Mother's Day Cabaret - Sunday 11 May
• Bouncers - 19 April - 14 June
• Ian Maurice Bears All with Natalie Mead - 30 March
• Ian Maurice Bears All - 24 February
• The Outback Pub - 14 February - 19 April

2007

• Rock Down the Clock - 31 December 2007
• Santa Rocks - 3 December - 24 December 2007
• Rock n Roll Inferno – 12 October – 22 December 2007
• Agatha Christie
  Agatha Christie
  Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
  
  's The Hollows – 10 August to 6 October 2007
• Naked Boys Singing - 8 June to 4 August 2007
• The Enchanted Forest - 25 June to 8 July
• Shirley Valentine
  Shirley Valentine
  Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad.-Plot:...
  
  - 6 April to 2 June 2007
• Ian Maurice's Mother's Day Cabaret - Sunday 13 May
• City Gym - The Musical - 2 February to 31 March 2007

2006

• Rock N Roll Beach Party - 31 December 2006
• Gilligan's Island: The Musical - 12 October to 23 December 2006
• Santa Down Under - 4 to 24 December 2006
• Nunsensations: The Nunsense Vegas Revue
  Nunsense
  Nunsense is a musical comedy with a book, music, and lyrics by Dan Goggin. Originating as a line of greeting cards, Goggin expanded the concept into a cabaret that ran for 38 weeks, and eventually into a full-length musical...
  
  - 3 August to 7 October 2006
• Ghost Writers – 15 to July29uly 2006
• Ian Maurice – Live in cabaret – 23 July 2006
• The Emperor's New Clothes
  The Emperor's New Clothes
  "The Emperor's New Clothes" is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent...
  
  – 26 June – 9 July 2006
• Broadway Busted – 29 March- 27 May
• Me and Jezebel - 3 February to 25 March 2006

2005

• Blues Brothers Bash - 31 December 2005
• Pirates Down Under - 3 November to 24 December
• SC Superstar - 28 November to 24 December
• Walk this way - 22 September to 29 October 2005
• Friends and Relations - 4 August to 17 September 2005
• No News is Good News - 9 June - 30 July 2005
• David the Friendly Dragon – 20 June – 3 July 2005
• Gilligan's Island: The Musical - 31 March - 4 June 2005
• Agatha Christie
  Agatha Christie
  Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
  
  's Murder on the Nile
  Death on the Nile
  Death on the Nile is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 1, 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence and the US edition at $2.00.The book...
  
  - 3 February to 26 March 2005

2004

• Stayin Alive 05 Disco - 31 December 2004
• Spaced Out Santa - 29 November - 24 December 2004
• Forbidden Planet
  Forbidden Planet
  Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox, with a screenplay by Cyril Hume. It stars Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, and Anne Francis. The characters and its setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and its plot contains certain...
  
  - 28 October- December 18
• Dare to be Bare - 23 September–October 23
• A Swell Party - 26 August - September 18
• The Sacred Garden - 1 July - 21 August 2004
• The Great Fairytale Robbery - 28 June - July 10
• The Rise and Fall of Little Voice - 6 May – 26 June 2004
• Bouncers - 11 March – 1 May 2004
• Beautiful Thing - 22 March – April 13,
• The First Sunday in December - 29 January – 6 March 2004
• Aladdin
  Aladdin
  Aladdin is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland ....
  
   and his Really Cool Lamp - 5 to 25 January 2004

2003

• Rock Down the Clock - 31 December 2003
• SC Superstar - 3 to 24 December 2003
• The Outback Club - 6 November - 20 December 2003
• Look Who's Talking - 18 September-1 November 2003
• Ladies Night - 26 August-13 September 2003
• My Three Mothers in Law - 3 July - 23 August 2003
• An Intimate Luncheon with Amanda Muggleton
  Amanda Muggleton
  Amanda Lillian Muggleton is a British-born theatre, television and film actress. She is best known for her role on television soap opera Prisoner.-Early life:Muggleton was born in Stepney, London in 1951 and emigrated to Australia in 1974...
  
  - 17 July 2003
• Funny Money
• It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To
• Rachel Beck & Ian Stenlake
• Tom Burlinson
  Tom Burlinson
  Tom Burlinson is an Australian actor and singer.He attended Pittwater High School on Sydney's Northern Beaches and was the School Captain in his final year...
  
  
• Sleuth
  Sleuth (play)
  Sleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The play is set in the Wiltshire, England manor house of Andrew Wyke, an immensely successful mystery writer. His home reflects Wyke's obsession with the inventions and deceptions of fiction and his fascination with games and game-playing...
  
  

2002

• Rock Down the Clock - 31 December 2002
• SC Superstar - 25 November 22 December 2002
• Bedful of Foreigners - 14 October - 21 December 2002
• Nunsense
  Nunsense
  Nunsense is a musical comedy with a book, music, and lyrics by Dan Goggin. Originating as a line of greeting cards, Goggin expanded the concept into a cabaret that ran for 38 weeks, and eventually into a full-length musical...
  
  – 8 August – 27 October 2002
• The Odd Couple
  The Odd Couple
  The Odd Couple is a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing and...
  
  - 9 July to 8 August 2002

See also

Twelfth Night Theatre

Twelfth Night Theatre

thumb|250px|Twelfth Night TheatreThe Twelfth Night Theatre is an established Australian entertainment venue located in Bowen Hills, in Brisbane, Queensland. Australian actors such as Rowena Wallace, Sigrid Thornton, Judith McGrath, Jon English, June Salter, Penny Downie, Carol Burns, Kate Wilson,...