The Gourmet Detective - Dinner Theater Now Playing in Orange County and Inland Empire, California

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The Gourmet Detective is a comical, murder mystery dinner theater located in Orange County and Riverside County in the cities of Newport Beach, Irvine and Riverside, California. Southern California entertainment is our business. We’ve been serving dinner and performing our interactive, audience participation mystery murder shows for 17 years. Now in Riverside, across from the Mission Inn above The Tamale Factory in Downtown Riverside. The shows are improvisational theater. The actors are improv, comedy actors performing a three-act play in between each course of dinner. The actors are trained and coached in comical, improv by theater experts. The Gourmet Detective uses professionally trained theater directors and improv directors to rehearse and train the comedy perforrmers. The murder mystery scripts are written by professional comedy writers. The plays are presented in three-acts with dinner served by the characters in between scenes of the mystery. The Gourmet Detective has been a professional in the food and murder business since 1990. What makes the dining experience unique is the emphasis on the patron’s overall experience. The characters run the entire restaurant, interacting with audience members throughout the evening. The show is played out in four scenes with a three-course dinner served between scenes by the suspects as the mystery unfolds. Once inside the stylish dining atmosphere, patrons can sit back and enjoy a visual feast of authentic costuming, sets and live period music, or interact with the characters, ask questions and try and solve the mystery. “Murder at the Café Noir” is currently playing in Downtown Riverside. This story is a classic murder mystery set in the 1940’s and is reminiscent of the Bogart films of the 1940’s like Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. “Darling, You Slay Me,” a murder in three acts is a theatrical spoof of Broadway in the 1940’s and currently playing in Newport Beach at The Mezzanine Restaurant in Irvine.