ENCORE PERFORMANCE of latest show! The DINNERBOX SERIES continues - presenting live dinner theater comedy in your favorite local restaurants After sold out performances in October, The Company Theatre presents an encore of:  The Mystery of Irma Vep - After SOLD OUT show in October, The Company Theatre is bringing back the hit Halloween show! "It's Monty Python meets Young Frankenstein" in our annual Halloween show!  It is a family-friendly, horror-comedy with werewolves, vampires & a archaeologist with Mummy issues!  Two amazing actors play all the roles...if you like Greater Tuna, you're going to love Irma Vep.  Seating is very limited due to social distancing practices/requirements, shows will sell out quickly. WHEN: November 20th & 21st  - TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY! WHERE: The Big Apple room at Little Italy  (824 Afterglow) TICKETS: $30 for Dinner & Show Combo Call for tickets: 210-646-4284 - 1st 10 callers get the early-bird special: $25 for Dinner & Show Combo! PLEASE HELP!  Company 911...Emergency FUNdraiser!  Our beloved touring van - The Humbus (a 1971 VW Camper van), blew the engine recently & we need help to get it back on the road ASAP!  For a limited time, donate $150 and receive a Season Ticket Six-pack, good for ANY of our little Italy shows through spring of 2021!  Please contact Damian NOW for more details: 210-646-4284. ABOUT THE SHOW:  https://youtu.be/G7-0a2gknNM Here is a theatre review from a few years back that really warms our heart:   ACTORS EXTRAORDINARY IN 'IRMA VEP' By Michael E. Barrett, Special to the Express-News - SAEN   Last night, I dreamed I went to Mandacrest again, but it turned out to be Charles Ludlam's "The Mystery of Irma Vep" at the Cameo Theatre. The show — a joint staging by the Cameo and The Company — is half shocking mystery, half Victorian melodrama, half "Dracula," half "Rebecca," half "Hound of the Baskervilles," half curse of King Tut, and all campy, farcical nonsense in the tradition of everything from Carol Burnett to Monty Python. That makes about seven or eight shows, all delivered by two actors in seven roles. All isn't well at gloomy Mandacrest Manor. A wolf, or something, stalks the moors. Lady Enid, who never comes down in the daylight, is haunted by the memory of her predecessor, the mysterious Irma Vep , whose history conceals half a dozen dark secrets. (To reveal one of them, play around with the letters of her name.) Lord Edgar is an Egyptologist who spends half his time raiding tombs for mummies and the other half gabbing with the wooden-legged handyman, Nicodemus Underwood, who spends half of his time flirting with Jane, the maid who remains loyal to the reputation of her late mistress. Only certain characters can interact with each other, "for obvious reasons" as one of them says, so some of the comedy comes from the semi-frantic way one or another person rushes off stage and carries on conversations from the wings before someone else enters just in time from the other side. Since Damian Gillen (also the director) and Benji Regan know their roles backward and forward, mostly forward, they're free to extemporize and expectorate in the moment, weaving their well-timed and multiaccented delivery with casual asides on costume flubs or other random whimsicalia. More than celebrating the type of plots it spoofs so briskly, a show like this is a celebration of performance. The real pleasure is the spectacle of two actors loving what they do and doing it well. They're in the zone, wherever that is. The joy of performance becomes its own kind of dance. Such a demonstration can make you wonder why every play doesn't double up roles. It's like getting twice the talent for half the money. It may be mainly a joke, but it has the magic of theater in it, the kind that could encourage you to see a show more than once because each performance strikes different notes on the same music. COMING SOON: The Company Theatre's Video Podcast:  Join The Company Theatre online on Facebook after the show, for a video podcast with feedback about the show & hilarious behind the scenes comments.  https://www.facebook.com/The-Dinnerbox-Series-at-Little-Italy-163011350428619   A Tuna Christmas - The hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, the 3rd smallest town in Texas, where the Lions Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies! When: December. Bah Humbug! A one-man Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Christmas classic with one actor playing all the roles. Now in its 18th year of touring Texas.  Help us break our record of 30 shows in 30 days!  Now taking reservation requests for private parties, corporate events, theater/dinner theater performances...and even backyard Christmas parties!  Makes a great Christmas present for your friends, family or coworkers! When: November/December Clip about the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCERgETjcsI Merry Christmas, George Bailey! - Our annual radio-play adaptation of "It's a Wonderful Life"  1-night only! When: December. Where: The Big Apple room at Little Italy 824 Afterglow.  Doors open for Drinks & Dinner at 6pm.  Seating is very limited due to social distancing practices/requirements, shows will sell out quickly.   Tickets are $40, discounts available for those of on our mailing list!   Call us for more info on discount tickets, private parties & group rates: 210-646-4284. The Company Theatre is celebrating 25+ years of touring Texas & over 12 years of dinner theater at Little Italy! PLAY...with your food! ABOUT THE COMPANY: www.thecompanytheatre.org https://www.facebook.com/The-Dinnerbox-Series-at-Little-Italy-163011350428619/ https://youtu.be/S2peqaCHSAM PLEASE SUPPORT OUR NEW FRIENDS AT LITTLE ITALY: MEATBALL COMEDY! - brought you by comedy live productions, is quickly becoming San Antonio's favorite new Comedy Spot. With top comics featured on TV (HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, BET, Fox.)  Meatball comedy is truly the best dinner and stand up comedy show experience. You can find tickets at ww.w.Meatballcomedyclub.com or on Eventbrite. To order by phone, please call 210-920-8897. Don't forget to follow and like meatball comedy on Facebook.