Dudley Riggs

Because it’s funny when it’s not your family…

After over a decade of sold-out performances, Family Dinner has a new home for the holidays! Created and directed by Twin Cities improv icon Molly Ritchie, Family Dinner will return in December of 2024 at the Dudley Riggs Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. A rotating cast of talented improvisers will take the stage for eight performances to explore all the ways that going home for the holidays can be… challenging.

In this completely improvised show audience members get to be a fly on the wall as a family gathers to enjoy a holiday dinner. As the family members arrive we learn about their history, their relationships, and all the things that make this particular family unique. In addition, each family member is assigned a secret selected from audience suggestions. Just before intermission, we are treated to the show’s only scripted line, “Dinner’s ready!”

In the second act, dinner is served! The cast sits down to eat an actual meal composed of the finest foods Costco has to offer, and the evening culminates in all the hilarious drama that only a family and food can produce. They say that comedy equals tragedy plus time, but sometimes it just equals tragedy plus someone else.

Performers rotate nightly. Family Dinner is created, directed and presented by Molly Ritchie.