Matthew Nerber is a performer and theater artist in Chicago, and a former literary contributor with the Generation, the University at Buffalo’s longest running alternative newspaper. When not seeing or making theater, Matthew can be found at the Music Box or expanding his classic rock vinyl collection. He is a 2019 Fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
Not to be confused with Knives Out, though sharing some thematic DNA with Rian Johnson’s earlier film, Brick, Knives and Skin is a stylized, teen noir meditation on suburban stagnation, […]
You might expect Silent Theatre Company’s Incomplete Conversations, now receiving its world premiere production at the Tapestry Fellowship Church, to be void of dialogue– after all, the Chicago outfit, known […]
Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen Edited by Jonathan D. Cohen and June Skinner Sawyers Rutgers University Press He’s called the Boss—and a new book out from Rutgers University Press aims […]
“I think I can hear dead people.” No, I’m not paraphrasing 1999’s The Sixth Sense. It’s a line from writer/director Molly Hewitt’s new film Holy Trinity, in which they also star. […]
There’s a noticeably chiller vibe when I show up to Douglas Park for day 3 of Riot Fest 2019. If Friday was like the final moments of the last day […]
If he didn’t have family back east, Joe Pug would live with us in the Windy City. “They’re fucking up shit in the rest of the country. Chicago’s still got […]
My second day at Riot Fest was another one of firsts—first time that I used the port-o-potty at the festival, first time I rode a divvy bike into oncoming traffic, […]
I’ll get this out of the way up front. I’m a Riot Fest virgin. In fact I have only been to one festival in my life, when I covered Pitchfork […]
Early on in No Small Matter, directed by Danny Alpert, Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel, audiences are introduced to Rachel Giannini, the lead teacher in Highland Park Community Nursery School and […]
“I’ve seen better acting in a Hallmark Original Christmas movie,” one character says to another—and in the world of Hell in a Handbag’s wickedly funny new play The Drag Seed, […]
On Monday night, singer-songwriter Matt Maeson stared out into a packed house and told the story of playing Schuba’s a few years back. He said that soon after he was […]
Claire Bauman, by her own estimation, is someone who would love Virginia Woolf. She went to Vassar. She’s into experimental theater. She’s interested in history, and especially interested in the […]