JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Time for the Alhambra to defend its title.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville\u2019s Alhambra Theatre and Dining, recognized in 2025 as the No. 1 dinner theatre in the country by USA TODAY\u2019s 10Best Readers\u2019 Choice awards<\/a>, is nominated for the honor again in 2026.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The Alhambra is the \u201clongest continuously-operating dinner theater\u201d in the country, USA TODAY said.<\/p>\n The Alhambra typically puts on about seven musicals or plays throughout the year, each of which runs about a month and a half. <\/p>\n The venue also has shorter concert experiences throughout the year, such as Jay White as Neil Diamond and The Everly Brothers Experience with the Zmed Brothers.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Readers have a choice of 20 dinner theatres around the country and get to vote on the \u201c10Best.\u201d<\/p>\n Vote once per day until polls close on Monday, April 13 at noon ET. The winning dinner theaters will be announced on Wednesday, April 22.<\/p>\n To vote in the poll, click here<\/a>. For more information about the Alhambra\u2019s show lineup and dining experiences, click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Time for the Alhambra to defend its title. Jacksonville\u2019s Alhambra Theatre and Dining, recognized in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,90774,90773,347,28,348,116,351,118,117,349,350,90775,346,345],"class_list":["post-196211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-alhambra-jacksonville-fl","tag-alhambra-theatre-and-dining","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-usa-today-10best-readers-choice-awards","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}