Gracies Dinnertime Theatre collection

The first issue of Gracies Dinnertime Theatre (GDT), a student run, but not college sponsored satirical magazine, was published on February 19, 1995. The issue stated GDT was the brainchild of a group of individuals with way too much time on their hands, coupled with rampant imaginations. The premise was they wanted an outlet for their slightly off-center ideas that were often exchanged during dinner at Gracies, an on-campus dining facility. The single page publication was printed weekly on Sundays. Gracies Dinnertime Theatre and its' sister publications were created as a forum for student's ideas, thoughts, creations and musings, a forum to express oneself as one feels a right to.

By the fifth issue, the staff of three began writing two pages. In April of 1995, leading up to Easter Sunday, an issue was published every day for a week. By 1998, the publication had grown to a 28-page magazine with distribution of about 1,000 issues. At this time, the title had changed to Hell's Kitchen which was a combination of GDT and a sister publication that grew out of it called The Melancholy Predator, and was part of the Independent Press Association.

Sometime after the Fall 2005 issues were published, according to a letter issued by the Gracies Dinnertime Theatre staff, there was a large fire that consumed most of their offices including the lab where their computer equipment was stored. Publication ceased until it was revived in the winter of 2024-2025.