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

• Don’t Call It Partisan…

  published September 18, 2008

  Honestly: Would we Americans actually notice if our votes ceased to matter? According to director Dorothy Fadiman, this isn’t even a... More >>

• Creative Tension

  published September 18, 2008

  Art’s been looking for symmetry forever — loving it, cuddling it, approaching it, bowing before it wherever it was located. Then came... More >>

• American Pie

  published September 18, 2008

  If America is a melting pot, then Miami is a bakery, and its neighborhoods are its ovens. What comes out of them is lovely, but so resolutely... More >>

• When the Satire Is Blunt

  published September 11, 2008

  Dearly beloved, why are you reading a theater review right now? Are you not aware that the country is about to be taken over by a cruel,... More >>

• New Age Wines for New River Whiners

  published September 11, 2008

  Biodynamism was born in a simpler age, when enemas could cure consumption and sniffing radium could cure almost anything; when American criminals... More >>

• Celestial Occurrences = Drunk Drumming

  published September 4, 2008

  Nothing stands between a pagan and her party. Which is why the MoonPath chapter of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans at the UU... More >>

• They’re Takin’ Over!

  published August 28, 2008

  Le sigh. Coffee District (325 NE 2nd Ave) is the kind of place that had to be in Delray, isn’t it? Of course it is. An artsy... More >>

• Bad Sex

  published August 21, 2008

  Because we live in a beautiful and tolerant world, nobody will come out and tell you that gay theaters suck. But they do. They suck a lot.... More >>

• Gay. Ish.

  published August 21, 2008

  Not long ago, gay movies were about gayness. In My Beautiful Launderette, two lovers struggled against anti-gay (and anti-Asian) forces in... More >>

• Nightsticks, Guns, and Other Euphemisms

  published August 21, 2008

  If you wanted to get philosophical about what is, after all, a gay party celebrating a very specific fetish, you might consider this: The scene at... More >>

• Fuzzy, Fuzzy Fuzz

  published August 14, 2008

  A lot of plays fail simply because they can't find any justification for their own existences. They die quietly, sinking under the weight of... More >>

• Blood, Sweat, and Canvas

  published August 14, 2008

  Back in the day, the nicest thing about being an Olympic athlete was the art. If you were good, people would paint you, sculpt you, and write... More >>

• Kevin Pollack Is Someone Else

  published July 31, 2008

  Apart from being talented, famous, and rich, it probably kind of sucks to be Kevin Pollack. Pollack clawed around the far edges of... More >>

• Use Your Illusion

  published July 17, 2008

  Famed coloratura soprano Florence Foster Jenkins was 44 years old when her singing career began. It started with small recitals for her friends... More >>

• The Fall

  published July 17, 2008

  Director Tarsem Singh is probably most famous for vivisecting a horse. You remember the moment: it happened in the Jennifer Lopez shitfest known... More >>

• Body & Soul

  published July 10, 2008

  Why We Have a Body opens with an honest-to-God perfect 15 minutes. The night I attended, it began with actress Ambar Aranaga pointing a... More >>

• Carnivores With Rhythm

  published July 10, 2008

  That anyone can dance in the presence of Brazilian food is amazing. Americans certainly couldn’t hack it — in the U-S-of-A, most of... More >>

• The Unsinkable Ship

  published July 3, 2008

  True story: I was in a theater waiting for a play to start. There was an older couple sitting next to me, flipping through the Playbill.... More >>

• America After Dark

  published June 26, 2008

  We’ve already used this space to tell you how Bill’s Filling Station (2209 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors) has brought Sunday diners back... More >>

• From Faux Chick to Chick Flicks

  published June 26, 2008

  Wendy Wasserstein is dead, which is a damned shame — now, there’s hardly anybody left in the theater community willing to explore... More >>

• T(errible)-Wrecks

  published June 19, 2008

  Going to a wake and sequestering yourself with a grief-stricken husband for 75 minutes in the presence of his beloved wife's corpse. Listening... More >>

• Big Breaks

  published June 19, 2008

  I didn’t have the cash to do my collecting at Art Basel or Art Miami — not even across the street, in that weird little warehouse where... More >>

• Real Drama

  published June 12, 2008

  The Exceptional Theatre Company is the largest theater company in South Florida, but you've probably never heard of it. It's got more than 200... More >>

• Judy Blue

  published June 5, 2008

  Watching Tommy Femia impersonate Judy Garland for 90 minutes is one of the better ways to spend a Friday evening. His voice maybe isn't so... More >>

• Boys, Baseball, Beer and Billiards

  published June 5, 2008

  Sidelines is a fantastic place. A clean, well-lit and perpetually busy spot in Wilton Manors (specifically at 2031 Wilton Dr., right next to The... More >>