What Is A Killer Night Live?

A Story You Don’t
Simply Watch.

A World You Enter.

Guests arrive not at a theatre, but at an event already in progress. Actors inhabit the space around them. Dinner is part of the story. Music is part of the story. Clues may be hiding in plain sight. Characters can be questioned. Conversations matter.

Participation is always invited.

Never required.

Everyone gets the show.

One Night.

A Lot More Than One Kind of Entertainment.

What if you didn’t have to choose?

DinnerLive TheatreMurder MysteryComedyClassic MusicImmersive StorytellingInteractive EntertainmentA Night Out With Friends

A Killer Night Live brings them together in a single evening.

Dining room set for an immersive A Killer Night Live experience

The Experience

The Evening Begins Before the First Scene Does.

01

Arrive

Enter another place and time.

02

Meet

Characters are already in the room.

03

Dine

Dinner is part of the experience.

04

Watch

A scripted story unfolds.

05

Investigate

Follow clues—or simply watch.

06

Decide

Who is telling the truth?

07

Solve

Make your accusation.

08

Discover

How much did you really understand?

Follow every clue. Question every suspect. Or simply enjoy dinner and watch the story unfold.

Not Quite Anything You Already Know.

Not traditional dinner theatre.

Not an escape room.

Not a murder-mystery party.

Not conventional immersive theatre.

And a little bit of all of them.

Entertainment first. Depth underneath.

Hollywood. 1958.

The First
Killer Night

Movie star Sophia Vance is dead.

One week after her automobile plunged from the Pacific Coast Highway, Hollywood gathers at Vitello’s in Studio City to remember one of its brightest stars.

Her family is there.

Her friends are there.

Her lovers are there.

Her enemies may be there.

A Killer Night in Studio City became the first proof of concept: an original mystery built around a specific place, a specific era, and a fictional world designed to extend far beyond the stage.

Experience Studio City
A Killer Night in Studio City

The First Killer Night

The World Extends Beyond the Stage.

The invitation. The newspaper. The program. The evidence. Every detail is another doorway into the story.

The Hollywood Whisperer newspaper
Sophia Vance memorial invitation
Sophia Vance memorial program
Termination notice from the fictional case
Evidence photograph of Sophia Vance's automobile crash
A Killer Night in Studio City postcard
Civil rights history in 1950s America

The Period Matters

The Dream.
And the Lie.

The 1950s are not simply decoration. The stories live inside the contradictions of the era: prosperity and injustice, glamour and restriction, stability and rebellion.

It was the dream and the lie at the same time.

1950s musical performance

The Music Matters

The Sound of the World.

Music is not inserted between scenes. It belongs to the world and carries character, story, memory, and meaning.

It should feel like the era—not merely reference it.

The City Changes.
The DNA Doesn’t.

The 1950sDinnerMysteryLive PerformanceMusicComedy With Emotional GroundingOptional ParticipationHuman Connection

Even the ending can change.

An Opportunity

The Pieces Already Exist.

Audiences already embrace interactive entertainment, immersive experiences, murder mysteries, dinner theatre, live performance, and shared nights out.

A Killer Night Live combines those familiar behaviors into something audiences have not experienced in quite the same way before.

An opportunity to imagine what live entertainment can be.

Immersive entertainment and murder mystery experiences

So What Is A Killer Night Live?

A story.

A night out.

A mystery.

A world.

A way of bringing people together—and an opportunity to imagine what live entertainment can be.