Upcoming events
Santa’s Surprise Party
It's Santa's 250th birthday and NO ONE REMEMBERED! It's up to Bing Bong and the rest of the E.L.F.S. Club: Midwest Chapter to pull together and save the day. We'll bring the candy cane casserole if you bring the ice cream. Join us this December to secure your spot on the Nice List!
16 Bar BINGO: HOLIDAY EDITION!
Buzz Music Theater presents 16 Bar BINGO at The Hive Collaborative! HOLIDAY EDITION
Join us for this new music trivia event, featuring local artists and Hive owners Eric Morris & Laura Rudolph!
Pay As You Wish starting at $5.
A Drinking Game MN presents How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Inside a snowflake, like the one on your sleeve, there happened a story you must see to believe.
We are back y’all and we are bringing you the one, the only, he who puts the mean in green, the Grinch! A Drinking Game MN will do a live stage reading of How the Grinch Stole Christmas where not only our cast will have drinking cues, but you, our audience will have them as well! Hear a bell ring and take a drink of whatever you like! Be it Alcohol, snow (that’s water babes), NA options, pop, tears… We recommend leaving the tears for the Grinch and grab yourself a beverage you’ll enjoy! Our cast will bring the magic to life from the green, mean machine himself to the holiday cheer and adventure!
Not Your Mother's Silent Night
Join us for a cozy evening (with a dash of feminine spice) full of wintry stories and songs by 5 local songwriters – Roz Prickel, Monica Livorsi, Grace Stefan, Lori Lofstrom, and Katherine Fried.
Drop the ball with Dolly Who? and Manny Rodriguez!
DOLLY WHO? and THE MANNY RODRIGUEZ SHOW are BACK to ring in the new year at the Hive collaborative on Monday, December 30th for a live studio taping! With 2025 just around the corner, join Dolly and Manny as they combine their brand-new solo shows for an evening of laughter inspired by 2024 grievances and New Year’s resolutions, hopes, and mysteries!
Loudly, Clearly, Beautifully
Loudly, Clearly, Beautifully examines the fragile and powerful bond between fathers and daughters, chronicles how life halts and morphs with chronic illness, and meditates on coming of age and into power after tragedy and grief.
Using song, gorgeous vocals, humor, and startling vulnerability, the audience will join Elena Glass as she takes us through her father Gene’s Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis when she was 14, to her coming of age during his decline, to her post-pandemic rebirth after tragedy.
Halfway to Fifty 3
Laura is back and older than ever.
Join her as she looks back on her 27 years of life through stand-up comedy, singing and self- depreciation. What more could you ask for? Probably a lot- but that doesn't matter.
SECOND SHOW ADDED ON FEBRUARY 2nd!
Applause Community Theatre Presents: DONE TO DEATH
Done to Death | by Fred Carmichael
Once famous mystery writers involve the audience as they apply their individual methods to solving various murders. They include a couple who write sophisticated murders a young author of the James Bond school a retired writer of the hard hitting method and an aging queen of the logical murder.
Applause Community Theatre Presents: RED
RED | by John Logan
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing.
Applause Community Theatre Presents: RED
RED | by John Logan
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing.
A Very Good Christmas Carol
Join scrappy Dickensian orphans Edmund and Martin as they present their own version of A Christmas Carol! They may be the only two actors onstage, but with a trunk full of props, hearts full of song, and YOUR help, what could possibly go wrong? Come for a fresh, madcap take on the heartwarming classic, stay for the opportunity to join the story yourself!
The Garden: A New Folk Musical Concert Fundraiser
Join Hannah Bakke and friends in the “living room” for honkytonk versions of pop favorites, old folk tunes, and a handful of songs from The Garden: A New Folk Musical, all in support of the Kickstarter fundraiser for The Garden’s upcoming concept album!
Marquee & Muse: The Winter Sequel
Junia Morrow presents MARQUEE & MUSE: A Winter Sequel
Starring Liam Beck-O’Sullivan, Junia Morrow, Nadia Richardson, Sam Rosewarne, Jon Schumacher and Sadie Stillman.
SPIKED! Put some PUNCH in your holidays!
Spiked! — Table Salt Productions’ perennial holiday favorite — is back, and coming to the Hive Collaborative!
What is Spiked? First-rate music plus sketch comedy, all mixed up in a sparkling holiday punch! Featuring local music headliners and Brave New Workshop alums, it’s Saturday Night Live meets Mariah Carey … with cocktails!
Can I Refill Your Eggnog For You? Holiday Vacation (Working Title)
IT'S BACK!
Can I Refill Your Eggnog for You? Get You Something to Eat? Drive You Out to the Middle of Nowhere and Leave You for Dead? Holiday Vacation (Working Title)
Join local musicians Jenessa Iverson, Kyle Baker, Kale Winship & Maxwell Emmett Ward for a musical sleigh ride filled with some good old fashioned holiday fun!
This cozy evening will feature holiday favorites that will leave you as joyful as the first time you saw Bing Crosby tap dance with Danny F***ing Kaye!
Pay What You Wish starting at $5!
The Return of the Sun King: A Winter Solstice Story
For a period of moments, or maybe for a hundred years, as time disappears, you will be catapulted into another dimension filled with Faeries and other Magik Folk. Wrap yourself in the music of the Winter of the Forest and join in the adventure of the mice, fox and other forest beings as they await the Return of the Sun King!
View event - Storyteller, Karen Johnson and musician, Steve Decker, will carry you not just through the story but you will find yourself entering Myth itself.
Tickets $20 Under 12 Tickets are $15
16 Bar BINGO
Buzz Music Theater presents 16 Bar BINGO at The Hive Collaborative! NORMY EDITION! Pop, rock, country- we've got it all!
Join us for this new music trivia event, featuring local artists and Hive owners Eric Morris & Laura Rudolph!
Pay As You Wish starting at $5.
What Are We? A Situationship Cabaret
A Situationship Cabaret presented by Weird In Public Productions.
16 Bar BINGO
Buzz Music Theater presents 16 Bar BINGO at The Hive Collaborative! NORMY EDITION! Pop, rock, country- we've got it all!
Join us for this new music trivia event, featuring local artists and Hive owners Eric Morris & Laura Rudolph!
Pay As You Wish starting at $5.
APPLAUSE COMMUNITY THEATRE PRESENTS: A Woman Over Forty
APPLAUSE COMMUNITY THEATRE PRESENTS: An Evening of One Acts
November 21-24
A Woman Over 40 by New Zealand playwright Lindsey Brown
Our Dearest Friends by Twin Cities playwright Terry Newby.
SOUND BATH
Have you ever tried a sound bath? Led by certified Reiki and Sound & Vibrational Healing Practitioner Julie Lentz, The Hive is hosting this peaceful and transformative session. Email easeexp@gmail.com for more information. $30/individual.
Writers Go To The Movies - Madres Paralelas
Join us for a night of movie magic with the extraordinary writer Kao Kalia Yang and midwife Jessica Holm to watch and talk about the movie Parallel Mothers! As always, the event is free and open to all. Candy, popcorn, drinks and more!
Dolly Who? And The Manny Rodriguez Show
Wednesday November 6 at the Hive Collaborative in St. Paul, MN
Tickets: $12 (*if ticket price is a barrier, please contact us for options. We want you there!)
Your two new favorite shows are in town for a live taping! Twin Cities theater-makers Destiny Davison (Dolly Who?) and Ross Flores (The Manny Rodriguez Show) are teaming up to present their brand-new, entirely improvised solo shows in front of a live studio audience! Expect an evening of television inspired hilarity, nostalgia, cartoons, and flare!
ASSASSINS
In this darkly humorous musical revue, Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and John Weidman (book) depict nine misfit men and women who set out to assassinate American Presidents. Though only some were successful, all left their mark on American history. While every nation has its assassins and would-be assassins, only in America, the authors suggest, do disturbed and disturbing individuals act not because they hope to influence national politics, but because they are wrapped up in a malignant sense of entitlement. Feeling betrayed by the failed promise of American democracy and the American Dream, they strike out at the symbol for America: the American President.
Assassins spans several musical styles and many decades in a dizzying series of musical and theatrical inventions that culminate in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
16 Bar BINGO Spooky Edition
Buzz Music Theater presents 16 Bar BINGO at The Hive Collaborative! SPOOKY EDITION!
Join us for this new music trivia event, featuring local artists and Hive owners Eric Morris & Laura Rudolph!
Pay As You Wish starting at $5.
B-SIDE ART SONG RESIDENCY
B-Sides Art Song Residency is a monthly gathering where Twin Cities musicians use the art of song to make YOU feel FEELINGS. Each show features two sets of musicians playing the best songs you might've never heard otherwise. Plus, there's refreshments so all attending can let their nerd flag fly and connect with fellow song lovers.
Hosted by the overtly non-precious Art Song Duo Baritone Justin Spenner and Pianist Carson Schneider (Hive fans might remember the creepy "Winter's Journey"). Buzz on down to the Hive and vibe out to the best songs ever forgotten.
October 22 | 6:30-8:00pm
$10/pay as able
16 Bar BINGO Spooky Edition
Buzz Music Theater presents 16 Bar BINGO at The Hive Collaborative! SPOOKY EDITION!
Join us for this new music trivia event, featuring local artists and Hive owners Eric Morris & Laura Rudolph!
Pay As You Wish starting at $5.
A Drinking Game MN Presents: HOCUS POCUS
It’s just a bunch of HOCUS POCUS!
Or is it? Join us on Friday, October 18th at 7:30pm and discover Hocus Pocus with us!
Come take part in this cult classic as our cast does a live stage reading of the movie. We’ll see the Sanderson Sisters come to life, the transformation of Binx and all the antics Max, Dani and Allison go through to stop the Sanderson Sisters from devouring children’s souls. Not only will our cast have drinking cues through out the show, but you, our audience will also have drinking cues through out! Hear a bell, take a drink of your preferred beverage be it alcohol, pop, water, mocktail, tears, blood, a potion… Except tears are salty, blood gets sticky and can we really trust the Sanderson Sisters with their potions? Best to stick to one of the other options!
There will music, costumes, dancing, singing and yes, magic!
Costumes are encouraged! To protect your soul from the Sanderson Sisters, we strongly encourage dressing up in costumes!
TALES & TUNES
Hey Friends! We're excited to share our new little show with you. We're calling it TALES & TUNES, a collection of Tod's stories and Ryan's songs, full of our shared humor and hopeful nature, bittersweet and openhearted. Hope to see you there, at our favorite new venue, The Hive Collaborative in St Paul!
Moderation
A new play about content moderators losing their minds at work.
By Kevin Kautzman
featuring Amanda Forstrom & Matthew Saxe
From Bad Mouth Theatre Company
Jennifers Rule The World
We’re back! After successful debut performances last year, Jennifer Eckes & Jennifer Parker come together again in this cabaret to sing and laugh about having the most popular name of Jeneration X. Join us as we celebrate the Jennifer phenomenon, our coming of age, and our grand plan to take over the world. This fun and unique show has been called “clever, original, and engaging”, “delightful”, and “Jen-uinely fantastic!” by audience members. Tell a Jennifer, and bring a Jennifer! But you don’t have to be a Jennifer to enjoy this nostalgic musical romp.
LOVE IN THE TIME OF DEMOCRACY- Improv Workshop
LOVE IN THE TIME OF DEMOCRACY
Both improvisation and grassroots democracy flourish when we acknowledge the moment, embrace curiosity, and celebrate collaboration. Join Jen Scott, Jim Robinson, and Dennis Curley for a 90-minute interactive workshop where we explore this inspiring overlap. No experience necessary! Wednesday, September 25. 7:00-8:30. Pay-what-you-wish!
B-SIDE ART SONG RESIDENCY
Hosted by the overtly non-precious Art Song Duo Baritone Justin Spenner and Pianist Carson Schneider (Hive fans might remember the creepy "Winter's Journey"). Buzz on down to the Hive and vibe out to the best songs ever forgotten.
September 24
6:30-8:00pm
$10/pay as able
Featured songs: Ahasverus by Agathe Backer Grøndahl; more TBA
Featured Artists: Justin Spenner, Baritone; Carson Rose Schneider, Piano; TBA
16 Bar BINGO
Buzz Music Theater presents 16 Bar BINGO at The Hive Collaborative! LEADING LADIES EDITION!
Join us for this new music trivia event, featuring local artists and Hive owners Eric Morris & Laura Rudolph!
75 16 bar cuts of your favorite music theater LEADING LADIES pieces. 3 rounds of BINGO, with prizes for each round winner! Complimentary buzzy treats hosted by The Hive!
Pay As You Wish starting at $5.
Cabaret Open Gym
Cabaret Open Gym is a quarterly series where performing artists from all backgrounds and mediums can present their own pieces. From cabaret snippets to original songs, dance pieces, clown excerpts, poetry, monologues, and audition cuts, anything goes! The evening is split into two 50-minute sections, a curated section followed by an “open mic” format where performers can come and present as they please!
Season Scene Showcase
Stop by for an acting showcase featuring selections from nine classic plays- comedy and drama- with a stellar cast of thirteen local Twin Cities actors!
KABOOM!
Get ready for a night of explosive entertainment with KABOOM!, a FREE cabaret presented by CAHOOT?! Physical Theatre! This electrifying event will dazzle you with a fusion of physical theatre, toe-tapping music, side-splitting comedy, and a touch of debauchery that will leave you craving more. Join us for an unforgettable evening where laughter is abundant and the unexpected is always around the corner!
AGES 18+
Don't miss out on this spectacular showcase – mark your calendars and prepare to be amazed! See you there!
