UPCOMING EVENTS
The Imaginary Invalid
The Imaginary Invalid
April 30th – May 10th
In Molière’s classic farce, a hypochondriac schemes to secure free healthcare by marrying their child to a physician. What follows is a whirlwind of disguises, clever servants, and comic mischief.
Directed by Deb Schneider
Slinky
Slinky explores the invisible struggle of male eating disorder recovery through an intimate domestic lens. Elias has gained five pounds toward his goal weight of 140, but his controlling mother sees only the twenty pounds he still needs to gain. When he begins dating Lara, he keeps his hospitalization secret, hoping to construct a "normal" life before the truth emerges. As the relationship deepens and his mother's interference escalates, Elias must choose between the comfort of being monitored and the terrifying freedom of saving himself.
Dirty Twenty
Dirty Twenty: An Interactive D&D Improv Campaign
Ready to play dirty? Dirty Twenty combines the epic fantasy of Dungeons & Dragons with live, interactive, improv performance. Bring your dirtiest selves, and let’s roll the f****n dice!
Marble
A premonition of impending disaster precedes a collision between the conscious and subconscious lives of two married couples. Hidden fantasies and passions conflict with the calls of friendship and fidelity.
MNProv LIVE!
MNprov Live! is Minnesota’s first professional improv troupe featuring all neurodivergent players. It’ll be an evening full of quick thinking, big laughs, and unexpected moments — the kind of show you’ll be talking about long after the lights come up. Come celebrate creativity, connection, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
Gut
Debuting the U.S. premiere of Gut, by Frances Poet, is a tense psychological drama set in pre‑pandemic Scotland that explores trust, fear, and parental instinct. When a child spends unsupervised time with a stranger, a mother spirals into obsessive “what ifs,” blurring the line between reality and paranoia.
Directed By Julie K. Phillips
16 Bar Bingo: BOOK CLUB BINGO
Buzz Music Theater presents 16 Bar BINGO at The Hive Collaborative!
Join us for this new music trivia event, featuring local performers and Hive owners Eric Morris & Laura Rudolph!
75 16 bar cuts of your favorite from musicals inspired by BOOKS, songs about BOOKS, and MORE! 3 rounds of BINGO, with prizes for each round winner! Complimentary buzzy treats hosted by The Hive!
The Honey Jar
Presented by the Hive Collaborative and Twin Cities theatermakers Destiny Davison and Ross Flores, The Honey Jar is a new monthly improv variety show that brings the funniest troupes in town together for a night of laughs and fresh comedy!
The Honey Jar is hosted once a month on a Tuesday at 7pm, and features 2-3 troupes per night. Join us after the show for a community hangout to meet the performers, connect with other improvisers, and catch up on the latest buzz!
Leaf Man CD Release Screening
Come celebrate the official release of Leaf Man (Music from the Film) on CD!
Leaf Man is a metaphysical monster movie following a man's psychedelic odyssey through a world of organic existential transformations. Driven by a powerful shoegaze score, this wordless short film reshapes the boundary between ourselves, our surroundings, and each other, in the search for a meaningful life.
Stand Up, Stand Out Comedy!
For one night only, The Hive Collaborative hosts a night of Stand Out, Stand Up Comedy with long time pals Mary Rowles and Jason Schommer...
Mary Rowles, twice nominated “Campus Entertainer of the Year” for the Upper Midwest region through the National Association of Campus Activities” has performed from coast-to-coast playing to standing ovations for colleges, clubs and corporations.
Flawlessly flitting between hilarious stand-up comedy, breathtakingly good characters and original songs and song parodies, a night with Mary Rowles is one not easily forgotten. She adores her dear friend Jason Schommer and is thrilled to be sharing the stage with him again.
MNProv LIVE!
MNprov Live! is Minnesota’s first professional improv troupe featuring all neurodivergent players. It’ll be an evening full of quick thinking, big laughs, and unexpected moments — the kind of show you’ll be talking about long after the lights come up. Come celebrate creativity, connection, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
The Honey Jar
Presented by the Hive Collaborative and Twin Cities theatermakers Destiny Davison and Ross Flores, The Honey Jar is a new monthly improv variety show that brings the funniest troupes in town together for a night of laughs and fresh comedy!
The Honey Jar is hosted once a month on a Tuesday at 7pm, and features 2-3 troupes per night. Join us after the show for a community hangout to meet the performers, connect with other improvisers, and catch up on the latest buzz!
A Dark Gotham Night’s Dream
“Justice strikes not in the day, but in the night; And therefore is wing'd Bat vengeance'd sight.”
A ridiculous parody retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with classic Batman heroes and villains, told entirely in (almost) Shakespearean verse. With a stage full of love potions, fear toxins, Jokers, and Harley Quinns, will Batman and Robin escape the dreaded Arkham Asylum? There beith one way to find out.
The Siblinghood of the Traveling Slut Pants:A Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play Live
Join us live to experience something that truly pulls you in with oversized props, a brand new story rooted in "definitely-not-Minneapolis", and dice that insist on telling the story. Each live show stands alone, butmay have some fun callbacks and overarching stories for people who’ve seen previous shows to have a lil’ extra fun with.
MNProv LIVE!
MNprov Live! is Minnesota’s first professional improv troupe featuring all neurodivergent players. It’ll be an evening full of quick thinking, big laughs, and unexpected moments — the kind of show you’ll be talking about long after the lights come up. Come celebrate creativity, connection, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
Tape
Tape is a tight, intimate thriller about the tensions underlying long-standing relationships and the struggle to reconcile conflicting memories when the past resurfaces.
MNProv LIVE!
MNprov Live! is Minnesota’s first professional improv troupe featuring all neurodivergent players. It’ll be an evening full of quick thinking, big laughs, and unexpected moments — the kind of show you’ll be talking about long after the lights come up. Come celebrate creativity, connection, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
Film Noir Tosca
The Republic has fallen. The military is in charge. The former president is on the run, being hunted by the corrupt Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia. Floria Tosca is the premier opera diva of the time. Mario Caveradossi is a local painter and Tosca’s lover. When Baron Scarpia is found dead in his office, a detective is called in to investigate. He must untangle how these two artists found themselves on the front lines of a political uprising.
MNProv LIVE!
MNprov Live! is Minnesota’s first professional improv troupe featuring all neurodivergent players. It’ll be an evening full of quick thinking, big laughs, and unexpected moments — the kind of show you’ll be talking about long after the lights come up. Come celebrate creativity, connection, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
MNProv LIVE!
MNprov Live! is Minnesota’s first professional improv troupe featuring all neurodivergent players. It’ll be an evening full of quick thinking, big laughs, and unexpected moments — the kind of show you’ll be talking about long after the lights come up. Come celebrate creativity, connection, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
MNProv LIVE!
MNprov Live! is Minnesota’s first professional improv troupe featuring all neurodivergent players. It’ll be an evening full of quick thinking, big laughs, and unexpected moments — the kind of show you’ll be talking about long after the lights come up. Come celebrate creativity, connection, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
The Trail to Oregon
THE TRAIL TO OREGON! - Originally Produced by StarKid Productions
Inspired by the prolific Minnesota created video game, The Trail to Oregon! is a hilarious, interactive musical by StarKid Productions that parodies the classic video game, following a dysfunctional pioneer family's absurd journey west filled with dysentery, bandits, and exploding cows, where audience choices (naming characters, plot points) dictate the chaotic adventure, often leading to dark humor and unexpected deaths.
Not Your Mother's Silent Night
Roz Prickel returns for another year of festivity at the Hive! Well known is Roz's love of the holiday season, but what is less well known is that she has curated her own original christmas music over the years. Enough to fill an entire album or even to make a full length musical one day! For now, it's just exciting to gather for an evening and hear them all along with the stories behind the music. It is truly the perfect way to traipse through what she affectionately calls "Bermuda Triangle Week." Nothing like original tunes and good clean humor to get you safely though that pesky time between Christmas and New Years without a scratch.
The Honey Jar
Presented by the Hive Collaborative and Twin Cities theatermakers Destiny Davison and Ross Flores, The Honey Jar is a new monthly improv variety show that brings the funniest troupes in town together for a night of laughs and fresh comedy!
The Honey Jar is hosted once a month on a Tuesday at 7pm, and features 2-3 troupes per night. Join us after the show for a community hangout to meet the performers, connect with other improvisers, and catch up on the latest buzz!
The Midway Cabaret All Ages Variety Drag Show
Come on down to The Hive to see a variety of sparkling drag performances showcasing, queer joy, rhinestones, storytelling, glamour and love for all ages! This show is being put on by local performer Zestina the Drag Queen, poetic scientist Trina Morlock, and the Hamline University Everything Drag Club!
The Boy Who Cried
The Boy Who Cried
Written and performed by Em Adam Rosenberg
Directed by Ben Lohrberg
I am VERY happy. There is NO wolf. This play does NOT feature real sheep. I am NOT a liar!
In the premiere of their first ever solo show, Em Adam Rosenberg weaves personal narrative together with the familiar fable, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” This new work explores childhood mischief, the importance of truth, and the impact of traumatic events on our lives.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Razia’s Shadow
A dazzling, fantastical spectacle of puppetry and live vocals awaits you this spring at the Hive Collaborative!
The Carnival of Fools
Winter’s gloom is melting away- come warm yourself with laughter and light at the Carnival of Fools! See the Twin Cities’ most colorful drag artists and performers entertain you in a menagerie of song and dance.
Fool’s attire encouraged!
$10 per person at the door, $5 if you bring a friend!
MNProv LIVE!
MNprov Live! is Minnesota’s first professional improv troupe featuring all neurodivergent players. It’ll be an evening full of quick thinking, big laughs, and unexpected moments — the kind of show you’ll be talking about long after the lights come up. Come celebrate creativity, connection, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
The Honey Jar’s Super Casual Gala
The Honey Jar, the most antioxidant rich improv comedy variety show in town, is kicking off our 2026 season at the Hive Collaborative with a super casual gala! Come out to show your support for local theater, enjoy some PUPPET-themed improv, meet local artists & new improv friends, and get a little fancy with us!
Great Falls
Ride along with Monkey Man and Bitch (the only names she will let them use) as a recently divorced man and his estranged stepdaughter take an unexpected road trip through the western United States.
Bitch and Monkey Man,
Now search for a shared language.
Can words write past wrongs?
She's My Most Intimate Friend: Songs of the Pansy Craze
She’s My Most Intimate Friend: Songs of the Pansy Craze is a tribute to the often-forgotten crusaders of the queer underground cabaret movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Max Wojtanowicz will sing songs made famous by gay musician Bruz Fletcher and early female impersonators Karyl Norman, Gene Malin, and Julian Eltinge, with Wesley Frye on piano. All proceeds will go to Queermunity, a community space and café in Minneapolis offering queer-affirming resources and events.
Sweet Clone of Mine: A Neil Diamond Experiment
Neil Diamond has taken up residence at The Bitter End, or so he thinks.
An aging Neil Diamond comes face to face… with his face. And his fate!
Featuring the music of NEIL DIAMOND, this sci-fi thriller musical event shines the spotlight on the danger of AI in an artistic world.
You Know, David Beukema *Can* Sing
Despite having appeared in many musicals, Twin Cities actor David Beukema still feels like a musical runt. Why is that? And can he finally make his lifelong cabaret dreams come true? A evening of songs and stories, featuring Bradley Beahen on piano, special guests, and different content every performance!
Would I Lie to You?
Get ready for an evening of outrageous stories, quick wit, and hilarious deception as six of Minnesota’s sharpest performers go head-to-head in a live version of Would I Lie to You?
Can you spot the truth among the tall tales? Will our teams fool each other—or you? With a mix of comedians, storytellers, and local personalities, this high-energy show promises unpredictable laughs and a unique spin on the hit British panel game.
MNProv LIVE!
MNprov Live! is Minnesota’s first professional improv troupe featuring all neurodivergent players. It’ll be an evening full of quick thinking, big laughs, and unexpected moments — the kind of show you’ll be talking about long after the lights come up. Come celebrate creativity, connection, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
The Honey Jar
Presented by the Hive Collaborative and Twin Cities theatermakers Destiny Davison and Ross Flores, The Honey Jar is a new monthly improv variety show that brings the funniest troupes in town together for a night of laughs and fresh comedy!
The Honey Jar is hosted once a month on a Tuesday at 7pm, and features 2-3 troupes per night. Join us after the show for a community hangout to meet the performers, connect with other improvisers, and catch up on the latest buzz!
16 Bar Bingo: Love Songs
Buzz Music Theater presents 16 Bar BINGO at The Hive Collaborative! Join us for this new music trivia event, featuring local performers and Hive owners Eric Morris & Laura Rudolph! 75 16 bar cuts of your favorite LOVE SONGS!
Celebration Reading with Maureen Aitken and Mona Susan Power
Please join us for the reissue of The Patron Saint of Lost Girls with author Maureen Aitken, and Mona Susan Power, author of A Council of Dolls, reading new work from her novel-in-progress!
Playing Provincetown presented by ACT
A celebration of the bold experiment that sparked modern American theater. This original production brings to life the early days of the Provincetown Players—an extraordinary group of writers and dreamers who gathered on the Massachusetts coast in 1915 to question convention, explore radical ideas, and invent a new dramatic form. Featuring three one-act plays by Neith Boyce, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, and their contemporaries—along with new material by Minnesota playwright James Lundy—Playing Provincetown revisits the revolutionary spirit that transformed the stage forever.
Critical Thrust: One Night of Blerdlesque
Roll for seduction and prepare for a CRITICAL THRUST.
Critical Thrust is a one-night-only Blerdlesque experience where BLACK fandom, fantasy, and flirtation collide. Hosted at the Hive Collaborative in Saint Paul,MN this immersive Nerdlesque showcase celebrates Blerd joy through striptease, storytelling, and unapologetic sex appeal.
Soap-Prov’s Valentine’s Variety Special
Celebrate this Valentine’s with Soap-Prov: An Improvised Soap Opera for an evening of laughs, drama, love triangles, betrayals, and smooches.
Featuring the beloved Cupid Lucas, ready with the wisdom of love, chocolate strawberries, and champagne, accompanied by improvised musical serenades. Opening act Shakesqueer: I Love Thee So, February 12th, and Blackout Improv: Love and Laughs, February 13th-14th. An arousing short film for commercial break, an exclusive trailer of Soap-Prov’s pilot episode, and a one-of-a-kind live 45-minute improvised soap opera performance!
Listen Here: A Two-Day Festival for The Listening House
“Listen Here: A Two-day Festival for The Listening House”
Twin Cities-based improvising musicians will host a two-day festival in Saint Paul, MN, to remember that we are connected to one another--and to embody that connection.
All proceeds go to the Listening House, a day-shelter for people experiencing homelessness.
Come connect!
“Do the Right Thing”
Picturegoer Presents: "Do the Right Thing" (1989)
Join us for a screening of Spike Lee's modern American classic "Do the Right Thing!"! This special presentation of the Picturegoer Film Club is accompanied by a pre-show of vintage materials (trailers, theater snipes, and a classic cartoon), as well as a special introductory presentation.
Doors open at 6pm
Estate Planning Seminar with Amy Ireland
Free Estate Planning Seminar
What is an estate plan? Is a will enough? Do I really need an attorney? Why or why not?
Get answers to these and other questions in this hour-long educational seminar about estate planning with attorney Amy Schroeder Ireland. Find out what you might need - and what you might not.
Coffee, tea, and pastries provided.
MNProv LIVE!
MNprov Live! is Minnesota’s first professional improv troupe featuring all neurodivergent players. It’ll be an evening full of quick thinking, big laughs, and unexpected moments — the kind of show you’ll be talking about long after the lights come up. Come celebrate creativity, connection, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
All in Time & Prelude to the Premiere presented by Raison D’Etre
Join us for the world premiere of John Paul Rudoi's opera All in Time, the touching story of deep and lasting relationships formed within a longtime community choir.
The "Prelude to the Premiere" features arias and choruses from 20th- and 21st-century operas that form the rich foundation upon which Rudoi has built for All in Time, performed by members of the opera chorus.
A Drinking Game MN Presents A KNIGHT'S TALE
From peasant to knight: one person can change his stars!
Join us for a live stage reading of A Knights Tale where actors will act out, dance out and joust out on stage!
Our actors will be taking sips of their drink throughout the show and you, our audience, will be joining them with your own drinking cues! So come join the squire, as he creates a new identity for himself as a knight and lets go on this adventure - for food. And for GLORY!
Adventures in Hostessville presents VICTORY ROMP
The Hive Collaborative and Adventures in Hostessville present their newest Curated History Party Experience, The Victory Romp!
Spend an evening in 1943 with an immersive experience that’s part cabaret, part comedy, part trivia night, part cooking show, and part Ted Talk. PLUS there are complimentary beverages and snacks! Three nights only; get your tickets now!
The Honey Jar
Presented by the Hive Collaborative and Twin Cities theatermakers Destiny Davison and Ross Flores, The Honey Jar is a new monthly improv variety show that brings the funniest troupes in town together for a night of laughs and fresh comedy!
The Honey Jar is hosted once a month on a Tuesday at 7pm, and features 2-3 troupes per night. Join us after the show for a community hangout to meet the performers, connect with other improvisers, and catch up on the latest buzz!