Email Author Brandon K. Thorp

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 6, 2010

  "The Last Temptation"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 6, 2010

  "George Rekers is a Homosexual"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 6, 2010

  "Thinks Rekers Said..."

• 2008 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published February 22, 2007

  "Booze & Theater"

• 2008 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published August 2, 2007

  "A Marvelous Pity"

• 2008 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published July 5, 2007

  "Scared Little Animals"

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2007 Stories by Brandon K. Thorp

• Gold by the Dropperful

  published December 27, 2007

  Far more good things than bad transpired on the stages of Broward and Palm Beach in 2007, and many of them are obvious only in retrospect.... More >>

• Flesh Eating Froggies

  published December 27, 2007

  Zombies have been big in the ΄00s. There have been zombie-zombies (Dawn of The Dead), thinking zombies (Land of The Dead),... More >>

• The Grass Is Bluer

  published December 20, 2007

  If you can get past their oppressively overquaffed opening-night parties, Florida Stage really is an interesting experiment. It is a huge... More >>

• El Yentl

  published December 20, 2007

  It’d be the easiest thing in the world to write off Simply Barbra as the most obvious and ill-advised drag show in the history... More >>

• Hurts So Good

  published December 13, 2007

  John Patrick Shanley's Danny & The Deep Blue Sea is currently running at The Alliance Theatre Lab in Miami, and if you get the chance to... More >>

• Portrait of The Artist as a Loud Frappe

  published December 13, 2007

  The artists assembling for Y100’s Jingle Ball seem to have nothing in common. Failed American Idol Elliot Yamin, the nasally Plain... More >>

• Andrea Bocelli

  published December 6, 2007

  Andrea Bocelli was initially discovered by Pavarotti — presumably when the late, great tenor from Modena was already losing his hearing.... More >>

• Lion In Transit

  published December 6, 2007

  The little press release that went out in advance of Mosaic Theatre's new production, Guest Artist, was uncharacteristically misleading.... More >>

• Terrorfish

  published December 6, 2007

  Scientific studies of birds on lithograph tend not to mix well with political satire. Or maybe that’s conjecture. I certainly haven’t... More >>

• Theater on the Redeye

  published November 29, 2007

  At Barry University on a recent evening, Antonio Amadeo was showing signs of strain. "All my writers are leaving," he said as he watched... More >>

• Divine Doodly-Doodly

  published November 22, 2007

  I'm getting old. This is the first thing I learned during Cosi Fan Tutte at the Carnival Center last week. When I saw Samson et... More >>

• John & Yoko’s Last Year

  published November 22, 2007

  Even people who hate Yoko Ono come around eventually. This seems odd since by all rights, anybody believed to have “broken up the... More >>

• I Dreamed I Was the Archbishop

  published November 15, 2007

  Gosh, French writers can get tiresome. They're so smart, so interested in harrumphing endlessly about all the things they see and you... More >>

• You Always Sensed Something Was Missing

  published November 15, 2007

  There are some things in this world — not many, but some — that exist only because they have to. They don’t make sense, they... More >>

• Growing Up Is Hard to Do

  published November 8, 2007

  You're not a masochist." "Oh, yes I am. I'm an insurance seminar hostess!" High-pitched twitters; big... More >>

• Return of the Great Ginger Blooze

  published November 8, 2007

  Rolling Stone’s Elysa Gardner praised her “feisty courage.” That same magazine’s Greg Kot said she “glowed with a... More >>

• Twin Peaks

  published November 1, 2007

  Triptych is not a play about Lisa Morgan's boobs, but they deserve a shoutout. Morgan's got a stunning, stunning set of... More >>

• Juliette and the Licks

  published October 25, 2007

  Juliette Lewis has always projected danger. As early as 1990's Too Young to Die?, she seemed not-quite-right; like a person you couldn't... More >>

• Scramble Me Up a Universe

  published October 25, 2007

  Most of the experiments slated to run at the Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator under construction outside Geneva, involve... More >>

• Women On Men On Women

  published October 25, 2007

  Inside Out Theatre’s second-to-last play, Manuscript, was about a conniving woman devoted to man’s ruin, and the men who avenged... More >>

• The Border of Nasty

  published October 18, 2007

  The Promethean Theatre's premiere production of Red Tide opens with three actors in a vaguely unnerving tableau, stretching... More >>

• Evil Ruffage

  published October 18, 2007

  There are a great many things that you shouldn’t trust to amateurs, and one of them is this: dancing and singing doo-woppy show tunes while... More >>

• Something for Everyone, Everything for Someone

  published October 11, 2007

  Film festivals are tricky. Moviegoers around the world know how hard it is to fill a night with interesting cinema, never mind 37 days.... More >>

• Public Enemy

  published October 11, 2007

  Shared experience: You are in a bar, sipping whatever you're sipping, waiting for a friend to come back from the bathroom. There's a lone man a... More >>

• Three Chicks & Their Popsicle Sticks

  published October 11, 2007

  “When you see it,” says Danielle Lanteigne, “it all makes sense.” Lanteigne is the owner of Leche Vitrines, Fort... More >>