In 1967 — back when the Beatles were still together and man hadn’t yet landed on the moon — well-known lawyer and civic leader Ike Murry opened the Olde West Dinner Theatre in Little Rock in a shopping center at the southwest corner of what was then known as the New Benton Highway (University Avenue) and Asher Avenue (now Colonel Glenn Road), writes Linda S. Haymes in Tuesday's Style section.
Today, nearly half a century later, the dinner theater — remodeled in the 1970s from the rustic western theme with a saloon-style bar and reopened as the more elegant Murry’s Dinner Playhouse — at 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, is still packing them in, most recently with its production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s award-winning South Pacific, which runs through Aug. 31.
Read about Murry's and other dinner theaters around the state.