West Stanly Players presents "Cutthroat Christmas" Dinner Theatre performance
2025-12-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Atrium Health Stanly – Magnolia Room (Use Special Event Entrance – Corner of 2nd St. & Hawthorn Ave.), 301 Yadkin St., Albemarle, 28001, United States
The West Stanly Players will be presenting the interactive murder mystery dinner theatre “Cutthroat Christmas” Dinner theatre performances, featuring a 3 course meal. Performances will be held on November 21 & 22 at WSP Theatre at West Stanly High School and December 5 & 6 in the Magnolia Room at Atrium Stanly.
Tickets are $25 each and include dinner and the show. There will be a special preview show on November 20 at WSHS with no dinner for $10 for the general public. The doors open for all performances at 6:15 pm and the show starts at 7:00 pm each night.
Tickets must be purchased in advance and seating is limited. To reserve your table and purchase tickets, email wes.tucker@stanlycountyschools.org or call April Tucker, 704-791-3200.

It’s Christmas season once again. A time for gift giving, celebrations, company parties…..and murder! This year the West Stanly Players are combining a Christmas play with their popular interactive murder mystery dinner theatre for another fun evening of food, fun and murder, where the audience is not only guests, but suspects as well.
“We try to rotate each year between Christmas plays and dinner theatre, so this year we just decided to combine the two styles into one,” says long-time WSP director Wes Tucker. “The show is guaranteed to provide the audience with a hilarious and exciting evening of entertainment from start to finish.”
The Players are no stranger to interactive dinner theatres, performing their first over 20 years ago. Over that time, they have become one of the most requested productions. The format allows audience members to not only enjoy the show and a great meal, but actually participate in the performance. Some become suspects, interrogate actors, participate in onstage activities and ultimately follow the clues and figure out “whodunit” at the end of the night.
When the audience enters they are welcomed as employees to the annual Kringle Company Christmas party. The evening’s entertainment features two Christmas murder mysteries. First, guests are treated to the appetizer round, The Knife Before Christmas. This short, but hilarious mystery allows the audience to practice their detective skills and features many first-time performers. As the entree is being served they are introduced to Nicholas, the CEO of Kringle the gift-giving app. He is a jolly man in a red sweater that vaguely resembles another man in red, as well as the other characters in the main course, Cutthroat Christmas. A twisted tale of lies, deceit, backstabbing and murder at a company Christmas party.
A new feature this year is that for the first time the Players will be transforming their theatre at WSHS to a banquet hall for the first weekend of performances and then moving to the Magnolia Room at Atrium Stanly for the second weekend.
“I have often thought about doing a dinner show in the theatre, so this year we decided to do something different and perform at home,” says Tucker. “I am also very excited about bringing our show to the Albemarle at Atrium Stanly for the first time as well.”
In addition to the show, the evening also features an outstanding catered three course meal all served by the WSP. Guests are invited to wear their best ugly Christmas sweater for a contest during the evening and bring canned goods to donate as part of the WSP and National Honor Society food drive.
