The Barn III Dinner Theatre and Event Center, Illinois, United States

4rather-be-camping911 5:00 PM Jul 10, 2016

Great place
Love the shows. Temporary moved to Washington,Illinois. This is a great place to take friend's or family from out of town.

4beerlover78 5:00 PM Jan 7, 2014

entertaining and something different!
Normally New Year's plans are such a bust; and we just love staying in and cooking something fabulous and having some drinks. But a week leading up to New Year's I thought it would be fun to do something different. I always see little ads in the Pantagraph for the Barn II and I always think, 'gee, I'd really like to go to that sometime'. And then I proceed to completely forget about it until I see another ad for it. This time I saw they were doing a show for New Year's, so I gave them a call to see if tickets were still available. The woman who answered the phone was very informative, and I needed to prepay since it was New Year's. Normally it costs around $35, but for NYE it was like $62 a person. It included the buffet, entertainment, balloon drop and favors and midnight. And the place is BYOB! So I reserved a couple of seats. We drove to Goodfield on NYE, and the barn is on the property of a neat old farmhouse and several outbuildings. We were greeted at the box office right inside the door and then escorted to our seats, at a table of 8 in the second row. I knew we would probably be spending the night with many couples over 60 and I was right! Everyone at our table was nice, jovial, and fun. The waitress got our drink (choice of water, tea, coffee; soda is $1) and salad dressing order and promptly brought them out. Bread was on the table already for us, along with whipped butter and a garlic cheese spread and basket of crackers. Soup was also served. The buffet had fried chicken, turkey cranberry and stuffing casserole, pasta with shrimp, yams, baked potatoes, steamed vegetable and prime rib with au jus and horseradish cream sauce. Food was typical buffet fare, prime rib was a bit overcooked, but overall I was pretty happy with it. You then got your choice of dessert, which was cheesecake, carrot cake, coconut cream, or chocolate mousse. The show started with a warm up from a comedian telling lame jokes, but he did get a few chuckles out of me. And the show was a holiday revue, consisting of a few skits and many holiday songs. It was great! And our waitress was in the show, and during breaks would come refill our drinks. The show was over about 5 minutes to midnight, and the entire room counted down and was given favors and noisemakers, etc. Overall we had a great time and would love to do it again, it really is a nice escape from the usual bar/restaurant/comedy show, and a great value as well. Highly recommend it!