The Cine Roxy, Copacabana

The Roxy at Rua Bolívar 45 was a cinema long before it was the Copacabana dinner show. CNN Brasil (14 March 2025) describes it as a cinema opened in 1938 that seated up to 1,700 people and was for decades the largest screening room in Brazil. It closed in 2021 and reopened in October 2024 as a dinner show, with room for 680 guests in 4,400 square metres. Its operator, ROXY Entretenimento, sums it up on its own site in two words: “Desde 1938”, since 1938. Tonight it serves dinner and stages Aquele Abraço; on GetYourGuide the evening was from US$139 per adult (checked November 2026) without drinks.

The calendar is the dinner show in the old cinema: pick a date to see the three options.

A cinema on the corner of Rua Bolívar

The building stands where Rua Bolívar crosses Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana. For most of its life it was a picture house, and a big one: up to 1,700 people at a screening. Its own site still counts the years, “86 anos de história do espaço”, 86 years of the building’s history.

Two of the listings that sell the show describe the hall as Art Deco, and the house calls its main show a “superprodução brasileira”, a Brazilian superproduction, directed by Abel Gomes. The reopened hall holds 680 guests at dinner, well under half the old cinema crowd.

What changed in 2024

When the Roxy reopened in October 2024 it changed trade, not address: the evening became a dinner followed by a show. The house’s schedule reads like a theatre night with a meal in front of it: in at half past six, dinner at seven, the band’s opening set at half past seven, the main show at nine and the end at a quarter to eleven, Wednesday to Sunday (its own site, 13 November 2026).

Some reviewers notice the age of the room: one in September 2026 wrote that the lobby is modern but the auditorium felt like stepping into the 1980s, with dated carpets and seats. If a new-build venue matters to you, that is worth knowing before you book.

See dates at the Roxy

Finding it today

The address is Rua Bolívar 45, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22061-020. Copacabana Beach is at the end of the street, about 230 metres on foot; the Copacabana Fort and the Copacabana Palace are both well over a kilometre away, so they belong to a separate walk. Where the Roxy Dinner Show is has the taxi, valet and walking details.

The name on the door

The show carries the cinema’s name: “Roxy Dinner Show”. The company behind it is ROXY Entretenimento, as the footer of its site gives it. The booking box above is the Roxy’s listing on GetYourGuide, and Copacabana dinner show tickets explains the three options it sells.