• Dinner theaters offer both appetizing meals and shows such as dramatic plays, classical concerts and elaborate skits. These theaters serve cuisine ranging from fine international dining to Southern-style cooking to causal buffet meals. North Carolina features a number of dinner theaters, each specializing in different styles of performance and dining.
  
  

The Barn

• The Barn Dinner Theater in Greensboro, North Carolina, offers a wide variety of shows, including Broadway-style plays, jazz concerts and musical revues. Established in 1964, it claims to be the oldest continuously-operating dinner theater in the United States. The theater has a full bar and serves classic Southern-style food including pasta salad, roast beef, chicken and rice casserole and banana pudding. The dinner theater uses in-house actors and performers to put on its shows, whixch, as of September 2010, were rhythm-and-blues concerts, comedy musicals and full-length dramas. The theater enforces a business-casual dress code and bans shorts, tennis shoes and t-shirts. It bans smoking, permitted outside, and requires reservations. It discourages children under 5.
  
  The Barn Dinner Theater
  
  120 Stage Coach Trail
  
  Greensboro, NC 27409
  
  336-292-2211
  
  barndinner.com
  
  

Raleighwood

• Raleighwood Cinema Grill is a dinner cinema in Raleigh, North Carolina. Although the dinner theater does not feature live performances it offers a wide variety of movie and video showings, including classic films, new releases and sports specials such as professional football games. The theater consists of a cinema-style room with long dinner tables and hosts events including children's parties, corporate gatherings and weddings. It serves casual American food, including salads, appetizers and entrees such as chicken wings and hamburgers. Tickets sell on a first-come, first-serve basis. The cinema grill allows children under the age of 5 only before 6 p.m. and requires all guests under the age of 18 to sit at a table with an adult that is at least 21 years old. The theater only accepts cash payments for tickets, as of September 2010, although patrons can use their credit cards to pay for meals.
  
  Raleighwood Cinema Grill
  
  6609 Falls of Neuse Rd.
  
  Raleigh, NC 27615
  
  919-847-8370
  
  raleighwoodmovies.com
  
  

Carolina Nights Dinner Theater

• The Carolina Nights Dinner Theater in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, mounts Broadway-style plays, live music and dance shows. As of September 2010, the dinner theater was showing a variety of shows, including a music revue and comedy tribute to the United Service Organizations, a concert consisting of Johnny Cash cover songs and a country-themed show entitled "Country Generations." Occasionally, the dinner theater will host an "afterglow" performance on days without regular performances. Afterglow performances include children's charity fundraisers and beauty contests. The theater has 284 seats arranged in a box pattern, offering superlative views of the stage and performers. The dinner theater serves cafeteria-style American dining, including meat and potatoes, although the exact menu varies from night to night. According to the theater, smoking is banned at all shows.
  
  Carolina Nights Dinner Theater
  
  PO Box 81
  
  Maggie Valley, NC 28751
  
  828-926-8822
  
  maggievalleyusa.com