Depot Theater — Attraction in Dodge City

My wife and I attended the Sep 29 performance of Sin, Sex, And the CIA (a play that has been performed across the nation for several years). The Depot Theater Company's (DTC) performance of this play was wooden, unimaginative, and talentless. While the script has potential, as can be seen on several YouTube videos, DTC manages to eliminate the possibility of that potential seeing the light of the west Kansas sky. The producers of the play found a director with no sense of timing, performers with no element of talent, and staging less theatrical than a high-school one act play. Sin, Sex & the C.I.A. is supposed to be a farce delivered with a healthy dose of slapstick and exaggeration. It's supposed to be FUN and FUNNY - it was neither. It almost felt like the director tasked the cast with taking their lines seriously, to rise above the "Luci Loves Desi" atmosphere of the actual play. I would breakdown the simplistic stereotyping of the casting, but I believe I've said enough. The play tickets ran $55 each with dinner - a sum more farcical and humorous than the play itself! The fee is unjustified by any standard, however, the food was worth the $11 upcharge. In fact, it was the only value the...

Dear Depot Theater, You asked for feed back, so as to know how to better improve the experience, so, I am giving you a 1 star review, and here are the reasons why. Your tickets are $55 for dinner/show, or $30 for just the show, which makes the dinner part $25. I brought my 5yr old to the dinner/theater, and was charged the same price for the ticket as an adult. Obviously a 5yo won't eat the same amount as an adult. You should offer a child's ticket to these plays. Then we were charged $30 for a bottle of wine that costs $5-7 at the liquor store. And as for the food, if you are going to charge $25 for a plate of food, then it needs to be food worthy of that price. I'm sorry, but lasagna and green beans are not worth that price. And then instead of being served the chocolate cake with cherry filling and whipped cream, that was on the menu, instead, we were served red velvet cake with butter frosting. Very disappointing. And one last thing, you need to have ratings on the plays you are performing, I would NOT have brought my daughter, nor would I and my husband have attended, had we known the play had quite a bit of...

Ive lived in alot of cities that prided themselves on their local theatre. Ive never seen anything like Dodge City. The sheer performing arts talent in this town tops anything. There are plenty of venues to see and appreciate all of it from the high school plays and musicals to the museum variety show but everything just seems to come together in one place on the Depot Theatre stage. If you're a local and you havent seen a show here you are missing out! If you are a traveling tourist and you dont time your visit to take in a dinner show while you're in town then your vacation isnt going to be as awesome as...