Off Broadway Live in Santee is East County's only cabaret-style dinner theater, staging musical revues, tribute shows, and original productions from a converted Cuyamaca Street storefront at 9490 since its 2013 opening. The intimate tables-and-chairs configuration seats audiences at four-top tables facing a full-production stage with theatrical lighting and a multi-channel sound system, and the ENCORE Supper Club format pairs a three-course meal with a live band — a supper-club experience that complements the pre-show dining options at Phil's BBQ on Mission Gorge Road. Co-founders Bob Schulze and Steve Rolf built the theater inside the shell of a former Blockbuster Video, gutting the retail interior to install a raised stage, cabaret seating, and a full backstage area within the 2,400-square-foot commercial suite. The rotating repertoire includes DECADES Flashback — a musical revue cycling through four years of hits across four decades — and Chicken Fried Gospel, a gospel-music showcase that draws audiences from across San Diego County. Voted Best Live Theater Group in the 2025 San Diego Union-Tribune Readers Poll, Off Broadway Live now operates in its 13th season on the Cuyamaca Street corridor, where the pre-curtain crowd also frequents The Coffee Corner at Santee Town Center. The stage audio runs a 24-channel digital mixing board feeding a line-array speaker configuration tuned for vocal clarity in a room where no seat exceeds 40 feet from the performers.