Tuesday, February 3, 2026
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Show
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Get ready for laughter, tears, and rock and roll glory as rising star Charlene Kaye brings her hit solo show, Tiger Daughter: Or, How I Brought My Immigrant Mother Ultimate Shame (presented by Margaret Cho and directed by Jennifer Monaco), to The Parkway! This special Minneapolis performance follows sold-out runs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Tiger Daughter details what happens when you rebel against your Chinese Tiger Mom’s dreams of you playing Carnegie Hall by time you’re 12, and instead become a slutty shredder in an all-girl Guns N’ Roses cover band called Guns N’ Hoses (“Welcome to the Vajungle!”)… among other questionable life choices. Your mother then has to watch the nightmare version of the American Dream she envisioned for her firstborn daughter play out in front of her eyes — all while stomaching the fact that she always secretly wanted to be a famous singer herself.
"For the past 20 years, I’ve shared this very public-facing story of being a musician. With Tiger Daughter, I finally get to share the private-facing story of my relationship with my mother that’s been running parallel to it this entire time,” says Kaye.
And what if you don’t have a Tiger Mom? “I don’t think you need to be Asian to understand the show,” Kaye says. “You just need to have a parent you’ve disappointed.”
Charlene Kaye is a musician, comedian and actor based in New York. Under her rock persona KAYE, she has toured the world and opened for Arctic Monkeys, alt-J, St. Vincent, and Metallica. As a comedian, she is currently touring her solo show, Tiger Daughter: Or, How I Brought My Immigrant Mother Ultimate Shame, presented by comedy icon Margaret Cho. Tiger Daughter played to sold-out runs at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and it will soon be filmed as her first comedy special.
On the internet, Kaye might be most known for creating the wildly viral "Every Taylor Swift Song," which has over 100M views and which made fans out of Questlove, Anderson .Paak and Fred Armisen. Rolling Stone recently profiled her with the headline, “Why Everybody Loves Breakout Comedy Star Charlene Kaye,” and she was just interviewed by CBS Morning on how she “turned pop parody into viral gold.”
Kaye shreds guitar in two cover bands she started, Guns N’ Hoses (all-girl GNR) and Labiahead (all-girl Radiohead). She has an empire of queer female cover bands in the works, including Sister of a Down, Twink 182, and an all-Asian Nine Inch Nails band called Nine Inch Nail Salon.
Kaye also has a video series which consists of her trolling dudes in Guitar Center by playing famous riffs wrong on purpose, which someone on Twitter called "pick-me behavior of the highest order."