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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2008 Stories by Brandon K. Thorp

• A Seat at the Apocalypse

  published December 25, 2008

  What a treat it is to see one of our professional theater companies take on an old-fashioned 1950s mindfuck like The Chairs. Eugene... More >>

• Sol Theatre ruts, while Florida Stage takes wing

  published December 18, 2008

  I do not like Mart Crowley anymore. Crowley is the old queen who rocketed to worldwide fame and acclaim with the 1968 play The Boys in the... More >>

• Them Eats is Cheap

  published December 18, 2008

  Three, two, or even one year ago there wouldn’t have been anything notable about getting a decent lunch for $3.99. The fact that you... More >>

• Eugene Ionesco and The Economic Apocalypse

  published December 18, 2008

  Palm Beach Dramaworks discovered something important this season: that playwrights named Eugene had a bead on this whole capitalist apocalypse... More >>

• Culturebeat

  published December 11, 2008

  Good things come in small packages. Or so goes the thinking behind "Small Stuff 2," a droll holiday-season show at Bear and Bird Boutique +... More >>

• Metal and Mangroves

  published December 4, 2008

  You’ve seen Heinz Award-Winner/International Sculpture Lifetime Achievement Award-Winner Mark di Suvero’s sculpture before. At... More >>

• The Arting of Miami

  published December 4, 2008

  The exhibition is called “Inevitable Continuum,” though it was not in the least bit inevitable. If Westen Charles, Elizabeth... More >>

• Cat Fight

  published December 4, 2008

  “Johnny’s used to just be a twink bar,” says owner Sean David of the venerable gay club in the days before he owned it. “Now... More >>

• Bottles and Brimstone

  published November 27, 2008

  Midway through The Seafarer, when it became clear that the play's antagonist was not some abstract embodiment of evil but was in fact... More >>

• The Kids Were Alright

  published November 13, 2008

  The Who weren’t always quite as good as people think. From 1964 ’til 1971, they suffered from a tinny sound and a vocalist, Roger... More >>

• Like a Book Fair, But Cooler

  published November 6, 2008

  In most books, even very pretty ones, the art is subordinate to the text, and the design — the paper, the binding, the layout, the cover... More >>

• Empty Seats, Empty Suits

  published October 30, 2008

  Deborah Sherman tells me that Barton Bishop's Still The River Runs is drawing the worst houses in the history of the Promethean Theatre,... More >>

• They Walk Among Us

  published October 30, 2008

  You haven’t heard of them, they are not rich, and they may even have day jobs. Nevertheless, there are honest-to-god filmmakers right here in... More >>

• Halloween, Clowns, and Sausage

  published October 23, 2008

  Haunted houses have a large order to fill, namely because it takes talent and careful planning to scare the crap out patrons who are so obviously... More >>

• Domestic Violence

  published October 23, 2008

  Eugene O'Neill, born in 1888 and dead by the end of 1953, carried around a lot of angst. He had an absentee father and a morphine-addicted... More >>

• Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Preview

  published October 16, 2008

  The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival opens officially on Friday, and it will close on November 11. In the intervening month, the... More >>

• The Youngest Candidate

  published October 16, 2008

  Politics is always confusing, and in dangerous times, it's probably better to be knowledgeably cynical than gaily ignorant. All by itself,... More >>

• Murder, Spies, & Voting Lies and Boogieman

  published October 16, 2008

  Murder, Spies, & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story is an exhaustively (and exhaustingly) thorough investigation of the claims of Clint... More >>

• Neshoba

  published October 16, 2008

  Any distance you might feel between yourself and the result of cheap politicking depicted in Boogieman is obliterated within the first... More >>

• An Unlikely Weapon

  published October 16, 2008

  You probably don't know photographer Eddie Adams, though you know his work. His most famous picture is the one of South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen... More >>

• Critic Undergoes Sex Change!

  published October 9, 2008

  Theater "by women, about women, for everyone." This is the slogan of the Women's Theatre Project, and it is as harmless (in a nü-school,... More >>

• Sinastresque

  published October 9, 2008

  Singer Bob Hoose may look like somebody’s sleazy uncle on All My Children, ‘80s vintage, but he can sing like Frank Sinatra. Really... More >>

• Everymen

  published October 2, 2008

  No playwright plumbs issues of modern gayness as often as Terrence McNally, and he's seldom plumbed more deeply than he means to with Some... More >>

• Shrugging Through Time

  published October 2, 2008

  Pablo Picasso and Carlos Luna have little to do with each other. Sure, Spanish was a first language for both of them; Picasso half-invented... More >>

• Black and White

  published September 18, 2008

  August Wilson, in case you're not a fan or happened to miss the obits in 2005, was a half-black, half-white American playwright who, in a... More >>