Desert Star Playhouse is a dinner theater in Murray, Utah with a long and colorful history. It started out as Gem, a small theater that showed silent movies accompanied by a piano. It was eventually closed down and demolished, but later rebuilt and expanded and named the Iris Theater. The Iris was considered state-of-the-art for its time. It used to show both blockbusters and more obscure movies and some Thursday nights were reserved for Swedish films, shown for Swedish immigrants living in Murray. The theater had a stage where various local groups could show theatrical productions. Murray firemen sometimes held conventions there. Iris Theater, Apartments and Commercial Building was built in 1930 and is the only commercial building in Murray built in the Art Deco style. The theater became Desert Star when Mike and Alyce Todd purchased it and renamed it the Desert Star Playhouse. After meticulous renovation, the playhouse today features Dinner and Cabaret theaters, and performing two shows in different theaters. Desert Star is known for parody plays, with comedic spoofs of classic movies and stories.

4861 State St, Murray, UT 84107

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