Reviews

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Customers have witnessed our Murder Mysteries throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. We’ve received a good deal of press from folks who have enjoyed a good old-fashioned night of Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre. If you come across a review that is not listed below, please email us and let us know. We’d love to add to the collection. 

“Mystery House Performers brought their A game to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Sacramento!.. 100% hilarious acts played out with twists and turns… The actors did a great job of keeping us entertained. Lots of one liner jokes and references to songs. I can’t tell you how much we enjoyed the show… Hat tip to the fantastic actors of Mystery House for all the laughs.” — Rich L, Yelp

“An exceptional experience with an excellent three-course dinner and show at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Wheatland, California… The show was fun and interactive. The actors and the audience were playing together to figure out the murder… Everybody had a blast!” — Michael W, Yelp

“This was such a fun and different experience! I’ve never been to a murder mystery dinner before, so I didn’t know what to expect, but I enjoyed the performance which put my brain to work. The 3-course meal was great too…Overall I really enjoyed the experience.” — Jacina C, Yelp

“Just in time for Halloween comes a spooky side dish for your dinner; Murder! It’s all part of the Pleasanton Hotel’s Mystery Dinner Theatre, where you get to dine on a gourmet meal and solve a murder mystery all in one night. It’s where the show turns most of their attendees into a regular Sherlock Holmes.” –  Channel 30 News, Pleasanton, CA (view here)

“As the audience is seated in the dinner area, Western-clad cast members mosey in, introducing themselves and start doing what they do best—dropping hints … It’s all played out between the three-course dinner, and the audience gets into the act by reading clues out loud as well as guessing who did the murderous acts. There are prizes for the team at each table that guess who the culprit is, and by the end of dessert, the mystery is solved…” – Contra Costa Times (read full article here)

“As I was ushered into a room at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in San Mateo, I knew at once that this would not be a typical dinner. Instead of the soft candlelight and large black stage I was expecting, there were several large round tables stationed themselves throughout the brightly lit room… Immediately, a man with a tall chef’s hat and white apron came cheerfully bounding up to the table and introduced himself as “Chef Fredo.” He would be taking care of the food during our last night aboard our fictitious cruise ship, the S.S. Amore. I eyed him suspiciously. Was he the real chef? Was he going to bring our food? Could I ask him if the salad to be served contained nuts? For a moment, reality and fantasy confounded themselves within my reason and I was quite sure I was a passenger having dinner on a cruise.” – Stanford Daily (read full article here)

Murder Among The Stars is on the menu at Gina’s Benicia Bay Restaurant every Saturday night. Opening night, Feb. 12th, was greeted with several after-scene applause, and the laughs just kept coming… Alex Torres, as “Taurus,” was spellbinding as he informed the guests that the real cast of the “little mystery play” were “stuck in Lodi again”. However, the famous “Madame Zodiac”, hilariously played by Lisa Book-Williams graciously consents to speak in their absence. Unfortunately, Madame Zodiac dies right before our eyes, and Jonathan Caplan as Security Guard “Horace Cope” tries to solve the crime. Caplan nearly steals the show, as he bungles his way through the clues. Serena Gibson-Torres, as “Gemini”, comes off best as the scatterbrained secretary of “Madame Zodiac”, while Gary Hinton, as “Dr. Leo Turnbull” is the perfect heckler among the crowd.” – Weekender Magazine

“You might call it a murder to dine for. It is, of course, all in very good taste. The restaurant becomes, for the evening the SS Amore, a disaster-prone Italian honeymoon cruise ship, inhabited by a wild collection of characters, all hamming it up with gusto: a sort of “At Bertram’s Hotel,” meets “Monty Python” . . . It’s a farce, it’s inane, and it’s rollicking good fun.” – Napa Valley Register