Restaurant Musical Comedy Returns with a New Title

Attention restaurant workers…and customers! Beginning July 8th, Waiting Around–the Restaurant Musical (formerly titled The Black & White Blues), will play at the Allways Lounge and Theatre. Waiting Around is the musical comedy that celebrates the food business, all from the servers’ point of view… [...]

To smoke or not to smoke? Barroom thespians find the play’s the thing.

By MARY LYNN SMITH, Star Tribune

February 14, 2008

In Mark Benjamin’s view, every bar’s a stage and all the men and women merely smokers.

Benjamin, a former Marine, has a soft spot for VFW halls, American Legion clubs and small outstate bars he says have lost business because of the statewide smoking ban [...]