how the night runs
A Sabat Theatre Evening, Step By Step
From the table on Foksal Street to the last number — what happens, roughly in order, whichever ticket you've booked.
Check availability ↗The two tickets, side by side
| Show only | Dinner & show | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Live price on the booking page | Live price on the booking page |
| Includes | Revue admission only | Welcome drink, starter and main, dessert at the interval, then the revue |
| Seating | At a table, without a meal served | At a table, with dinner served before curtain |
| After the show | The floor opens to dance either way | The floor opens to dance either way |
Arriving on Foksal Street
The theatre sits on ul. Foksal, a short street in Śródmieście that runs close to Nowy Świat — one of central Warsaw's better-known streets — so most visitors staying anywhere near the centre can walk in rather than book a transfer. The theatre's own pages describe the evening as a welcome drink, then dinner, then the show, so a dinner-and-show ticket means arriving earlier than the curtain. Your confirmation shows the arrival time. The building itself occupies the former premises of the Chamber Theatre, which means the room predates Sabat's own revue format by some years.
Being shown to your table
Sabat seats its audience at tables around the stage rather than in fixed theatre rows — a cabaret-style layout suited to the dinner-and-show format, since the same table serves both the meal and the view of the performance. It's a different feel from a conventional playhouse: you're not tucked into a forward-facing row so much as gathered, with everyone else, around a stage built for dancing as much as watching.
Dinner, if you've booked it
On the dinner-and-show ticket, a welcome drink is served in the lobby, then a full dinner — starter, main and dessert — at your table, with vegan options available. Dessert is held back for the interval rather than served with the main course — a small detail, but one that shapes the rhythm of the evening. The specific dishes aren't published anywhere we could verify, so we've left them out rather than guess at a menu.
The revue itself
What follows is a sequence of numbers — dancers, singers and musicians — rather than a single scripted story, in the format Sabat borrows from pre-war Warsaw revue houses and, by its own description, from a Moulin-Rouge style of cabaret. Costume changes and full-company numbers alternate with smaller turns.
After the curtain, the floor opens
Once the cast takes its bow, the theatre's own description of the evening has the stage becoming a dance floor, with the live singers continuing to perform while guests are invited up. This is one of the few specifics we could source directly from the venue rather than infer, and it applies regardless of which ticket brought you into the room.
Leaving Foksal Street
The theatre says the evening ends when the last guest leaves, so we won't quote a finish time. Given the central location, a walk back toward Nowy Świat or a short taxi from the door covers most onward journeys in Warsaw's city centre without much planning.