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 Really Good Reefer Joint

  published June 5, 2008

  Four months ago in this very publication, we announced the first local Reef Fest rally — called Reef Rally — to take place at... More >>

• They’ll Never Be Big In Burma

  published May 29, 2008

  Prescient or tasteless? That’s the question the men and women of sketch-comedy troupe The Jove must be asking themselves right now, as they... More >>

• Saving The World, One Perm at a Time

  published May 29, 2008

  A touching, sassy little play about lives intersecting at a beauty shop. This is called Steel Magnolias, unless it involves a she-male and... More >>

• Ordinary Politics, Extraordinary People

  published May 22, 2008

  Too often, the theater scene in SoFla feels like a mid-'90s Spielberg flick. Tons of chops and potential ruined by the mistaken assumption that... More >>

• Lies That Help You Over the Hump

  published May 15, 2008

  Chuck Klosterman, an inane and deeply self-involved pop-culture critic, once (once!) had a good point. That was in Chapter 13 of Sex, Drugs,... More >>

• Forced Marriages

  published May 8, 2008

  In her famous review of The Sound of Music — the one that didn't, by the way, get her fired from McCall's — Pauline... More >>

• The Blueprint Blues

  published May 1, 2008

  Nanique Gheridian doesn't get out enough. There are probably good reasons for this — being one of the big cheesettes at Palm Beach... More >>

• Fuzzy Math, Yippy Dogs

  published May 1, 2008

  Cinco de Mayo hits Delray on the tres de Mayo this year, and as the moment draws nigh it is worth taking a look at the illustrious, though... More >>

• Mystery Dance

  published April 24, 2008

  Running an underfunded young theater company is hard on the soul. You have big plans, transcendent artistic visions. You understand what you... More >>

• F--king for Chastity

  published April 24, 2008

  How do civic-minded carnivores save animals? By eating meat! Yes! You too can chow down on beef-filled tacos while luxuriating in your own... More >>

• Following Blueprints

  published April 24, 2008

  Most people can’t build a building, and building people is probably a hell of a lot harder. But Benefactors is about... More >>

• Your Schwartz Is Bigger

  published April 17, 2008

  One of the most evil and satisfying sensations known to man is the anticipation of contempt. It's a feeling so powerful and pervasive that an... More >>

• Labia-Loving Catholics

  published April 17, 2008

  Do you know what lesbians love? Catholicism! No. That’s probably a lie, unless you count Camille Paglia. Try again: Do you know what Andrea... More >>

• Brutal Youth

  published April 10, 2008

  Alan Browne was not a beatnik, so far as I know, but Robert Hooker is. And it's not just the goatee — it's the way Mr. Hooker's Sol... More >>

• Sushi and Sodomy

  published April 10, 2008

  It’s weird but totally true: Gay men love raw fish. In Wilton Manors, Galangas Thai & Sushi has been the site of more romantic first dates... More >>

• How Not To Begin a Career In Politics

  published April 3, 2008

  This is the kind of thing that doomed the Roman Empire. There was a time, not long ago, when the knowledge of all the dumb things you did at the... More >>

• Show Me, Don't Tell Me

  published March 27, 2008

  Before we start hacking into Ward 57, the new Iraq war meditation currently chattering before the footlights at Florida Stage, let's... More >>

• (There’s Gonna Be) No Kitsching When They Get Ho-o-o-ome

  published March 27, 2008

  The last time Twyla Tharp combined her unique choreographic talents with the music of a genius rock ´n’ roller, the results were…... More >>

• Arsty Fartsy

  published March 20, 2008

  Sol Theatre was good, and then it was bad, and then it was gone. Somewhere between a mind-melting production of The True Nature of Love and... More >>

• Local Pagans Get Down With Heavenly Hubba-Hubba

  published March 20, 2008

  The vernal equinox gets ickily Freudian for neopagans who are serious about their theology, for it is the time when the fast-maturing sun... More >>

• People, Politics, and Paint

  published March 13, 2008

  In the past few weeks, the big headlines for theater people were mostly flashy. Famous plays, mean plays, experimental plays, and big-budget... More >>

• Cheap Booze For Expensive People

  published March 13, 2008

  Happy Hump Day, dear reader, and congratulations to you for so gracefully surviving at least half of another workweek. Gritty, wily you — at... More >>

• Shooting the Moon

  published March 6, 2008

  This has not been a boring few weeks for theater people. It seems like every company in the three counties has decided that late February is... More >>

• The Queen of Ozone Park

  published March 6, 2008

  Let’s not understate the facts just because they’re so wild: Bernadette Peters is the single greatest living exponent of musical... More >>

• Holy Shatner!

  published February 28, 2008

  In his preshow announcement at Agnes of God, Palm Beach Dramaworks' executive artistic director, Bill Hayes, points out that... More >>