Kill You As Soon As Look At You: Monster Science First Thursdays
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesA history of Medusa, and basilisks, and cockatrices, and Baba Yaga, and other monsters that kill you by your merely looking at them! Learn the basilisk’s startling origin, Medusa’s remarkable transformation over the centuries, and much more besides! Plus jokes! And PowerPoint!
UFOs, ETs, BBQ: The Patreon-only livestream!
Flying saucer occupants aren’t always Greys and their incomprehensible medical experiments! Find out about the tremendous variety of entities that alien abductees and contactees have reported meeting, and the messages, warnings, and confusing gibberish they have had for humankind. Also: Greys and their incomprehensible medical experiments. For Patreon patrons only! All levels!
A Minnesota Bestiary at the Thinking Spot
The Thinking Spot 3311 County Rd 101 Suite, Wayzata, United StatesThe final in-person Monster Science of 2022! Please come help me close out a genuinely wonderful year for on-stage Monster Science! Prehistoric animals! Dubious UFO aliens! Liver-eating forest monsters and other Ojibwe creatures! Babe the Blue Ox and other beasts of Paul Bunyan’s lumber camp! And did you know that William Thomas Cox, Minnesota’s first …
Deck the Hells: The Patreon-only livestream!
The world premiere of the sequel to the wildly popular Monster Science Christmas show, with even weirder yuletide horrors from all over the world! Victorian ghost stories and insane TV Christmas specials and a huge giant cat that will victim-blame children for not receiving socks - it’s a long story, so come and hear it, …
“Unicorns: Are They Pretty” at the Tucson Fringe Festival
Two-time Tucson Fringe “Best Solo Show” winner “Reverend Matt’s Monster Science” returns to Arizona, with the information you need on the legend of the unicorn! The prettiest (spoiler alert!) and most magical of all fabulous creatures! Plus jokes! And PowerPoint! The Screening Room, Sat, Jan 21, 2pm & 7pm; Sun, Jan 22, 3:30pm
The Ecology of the Muppets
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesFrom friendly, furry monsters on a New York street to four-armed wizards in an age of wonder, Jim Henson and his successors have been responsible for an embarrassment of the best creature design and monster creation of the last 70 years. Come and learn about fraggles and grouches and skeksis and unhelpful talking worms and …
“How to Contract Lycanthropy” – the Patreon-only livestream
How is it I have never livestreamed the multiple-award-winning "How to Contract Lycanthropy," detailing the methods of turning into numerous were-creatures from around the world? This injustice ends now! For Patreon members only!
Beauties and Beasts and Also the Average-Looking
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesIt's the Monster Science Valentine's show! Love and monsters! If there’s one thing that millennia of storytelling has taught us, it is that there is no story so completely unrelated to romance that we can’t make it a love story after all. Come and hear about the dating lives of the misshapen creatures from the …
World Full of Monsters: A Patreon Livestream
A complete history of the monsters of the films of Guillermo del Toro, the world's greatest living monster creator! Wildly popular at the 2022 Twin Cities Horror Festival, and now with all-new material on Pinocchio and Cabinet of Curiosities! For Patreon patrons only, but for all of those fine people! Join us!
Kaiju Electric Battle Masterpiece: Reverend Matt vs. Ten Items or Fewer
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesReverend Matt teams up with real actual rock band 10 Items or Fewer for an evening of rock 'n' roll music and hard science facts about giant, city-wrecking monsters! Songs about King Kong and Godzilla! Songs that summon Mothra and other daikaiju! And more besides! Plus a whole slew of bona fide Reverend Matt facts! …
Monster Science Double Feature!
Augsburg Studio Union Park, 625 22nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesIt's a Monster Science DOUBLE FEATURE at the Minnesota Fringe Festival! As you already know from the VERY TITLE OF THIS PAGE! At 8:30, come and see "The Very Model of a Modern Monster Scientist" - an all-new Monster Science show, half of it being the comedy lectures with PowerPoint you need to get by …
The Very Model of a Modern Monster Scientist at the Minnesota Fringe Festival
Augsburg Studio Union Park, 625 22nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesThe Fringe-favorite Monster Science series returns, with the secret and surprising history of Elora Riley, Science Assistant, and tons of the monster facts and PowerPoint you have come to rely upon! Classic-style but all-new Monster Science presentations mixed in with illuminating sketch comedy! Come and see! Aug 3rd at 8:30pm Aug 4th at 5:30pm Aug …
Monster Science’s Greatest Hits at the Minnesota Fringe Festival
Augsburg Studio Union Park, 625 22nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesA sudden, surprise, second Monster Science show! A different show every night - each one of the most popular Monster Science shows I've ever done, as selected by some people I found! Thursday 8/3: 10pm - “Sympathy for the Devil” - the surprising history of the Christian Lucifer! Sunday 8/6: 4pm - “The Ten Best …
Music of Monsters of Music of Monsters
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesMonster Science First Thursdays returns with “Music of Monsters of Music of Monsters!” Reverend Matt is again joined by the amazing Irene Weinhagen, performing four new, original songs about the monsters of myth and cinema - man-headed lions and seals that change into humans and insect kaiju and more! With deep dives into their lore …
The Monster Science Halloween Monsterpalooza: NIGHT ONE
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesIt's not Halloween without Monster Science! Night one of three: A variety show FULL OF HORRORS! Featuring the comedy of Heather Meyer and Hedy Rand-McKay, the music of Angela Fox and Irene Weinhagen, the muppetry of Brad Erickson, and whatever amazing thing Tim Uren is doing! Don't miss it!
The Monster Science Halloween Monsterpalooza: NIGHT TWO – Nightmares on Lake Street
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesFriends. Friends. The inimitable Jen Scott is putting together a story about sleep demons. Featuring Duck Washington and Elora Riley. With trenchant monster commentary by Reverend Matt. You do not want to miss this one. (She will not be dressed like she is in the picture.) (Yes, I'm sad about it too.)
The Monster Science Halloween Monsterpalooza: NIGHT THREE – The Thing on the Fourble Board
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesNight three of the Halloween Monster Science extravaganza! We close it up with a show about Rev. Matt's favorite-ever radio drama, the rightly legendary "The Thing on the Fourble Board," explained and discussed and re-enacted with Eric Webster of the Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society! The sequel to their popular "Nightmares by Wireless" show! Come …
The Ecology of Star Wars at the Thinking Spot
The Thinking Spot 3311 County Rd 101 Suite, Wayzata, United StatesFINAL ONSTAGE MONSTER SCIENCE OF 2023! Join us in celebrating the second anniversary of the extraordinary science and education bookstore, The Thinking Spot! Reverend Matt’s Monster Science brings you a hilarious and fact-filled talk about the monsters and animals of Star Wars - from tauntauns to mythosaurs, from the classic trilogy to the prestige streaming …
Monstrous Love at Monster Science First Thursdays
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesA murderer’s row of amazing local performers join Rev. Matt to talk (and do muppets) about two great tastes that taste great together - love and monsters! Featuring local comedy and theater legends Heather Meyer, Boo Segersin, Brad Erickson, and Nissa Nordland Morgan! Stories and comedy and facts and at least one muppet performance! Come …
The Third Annual Monster Science Awards!
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesThe gala event of the season returns! The very finest in monster content of 2023 (Best Paleontology! Best Cryptozoology! Movies and books! Best Godzilla Content! Best Toy That I Bought With the Money I Earned from the Job That I Have Because I am a Grown-Ass Man! And many more!) is recognized, in a glamorous, …
Agent Elora and the Lizard People of Coon Rapids
Bryant Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesA Monster Science theater event! Join Agent Elora and Reverend Matt as Elora seeks to unlock the secrets of her monstrous origins, and comes up against the mysterious and terrifying Lizard People of Coon Rapids! Plus facts about Minnesota monsters, cryptozoological lizardfolk, and much more! It’s a sequel to the popular and award-winning “The Very …
Monstrolympics at CONvergence 2024!
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 1300 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States2022 Guest of Honor Rev. Matt returns to Mainstage with one of his signature deep dives into monster lore, plus jokes! In "Monstrolympics", learn about the best monsters of mythology and fiction, by category. What categories, you probably ask? Why, categories like: Best Vampire (it's Seminole), Best Dragon (Babylonian), Best Lycanthrope (South African), Best Kaiju …
Reverend Matt’s Personal Best at the 2024 Minnesota Fringe!
“Reverend Matt’s Personal Best” is a series of five different comedy lectures from the award-winning Reverend Matt’s Monster Science series, as selected by the Reverend - and his infectious enthusiasm for them shines through. A companion to the Fringe 2023’s “Monster Science’s Greatest Hits,” come and see shows about Medusa, pterosaurs, Ray Harryhausen, speculative evolution, …
“How to Contract Lycanthropy” at Crypticon 2024
“How to Contract Lycanthropy”: Because sometimes you need practical advice. A one-man, tweed-wearing, pipe-smoking, comedy lecture - with PowerPoint! - chock full of helpful household tips and tricks from throughout the world and its history for taking the form of a wolf and going forth to maraud and terrify. Also advice on how to become …
The Night Parade of a Hundred Demons at TCHF
The Crane Theater 2303 Kennedy St NE UNIT 120, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesTwo great tastes that taste great together! Horror Festival favorites The Winding Sheet Outfit and Reverend Matt’s Monster Science team up to celebrate the 100th episode of Monster Science (!!) with 100 tales of horror mythology! Inspired by a very old Japanese party game in which 100 monster stories are told and this summons a …