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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2009 Stories by Brandon K. Thorp

• Captain Disillusion, South Florida's Very Own Superhero, on Ghosts, Superpowers, and Skepticism

  published December 24, 2009

  Two years ago, cable news footage from Parma, Ohio, began attracting the attention of ghost enthusiasts on YouTube. The videos depicted a blue... More >>

• Ghosts in the Cloud Chamber

  published December 24, 2009

  According to classical physics, the universe could be imagined as a giant billiards table. An indeterminate number of years ago, some great... More >>

• The Storytelling Ability of a Boy at Florida Stage: Sex, Youth, and Nailguns

  published December 17, 2009

  American high schools are more than just places kids go to have their intellectual curiosity extinguished. They are also, for many sensitive... More >>

• Drama Kids at Plantation's American Heritage School Are Lovely, but They Have a Competitive Streak

  published December 10, 2009

  On December 5, as this bleary-eyed adult chugged bitter gas-station coffee in the parking lot of Plantation's American Heritage School at the... More >>

• Why Torture Is Wrong and the People Who Love Them Combines Horrific Violence and Downright Silliness

  published November 26, 2009

  Awkward silence is bad, but we have it for a reason: Whatever we might say in its stead would be worse. The awkward silence is a product of the... More >>

• The Voysey Inheritance at the Caldwell Theatre: A Risk Pays Off

  published November 19, 2009

  I cannot imagine any play more right for the moment than The Voysey Inheritance. Nor can I imagine any play more wrong. On the... More >>

• Audience With the Queens Fails to Capture Key West's Drag Culture

  published November 5, 2009

  To call Audience With the Queens a documentary would insult the word documentary and burden this little trifle with expectations... More >>

• Two Jews Walk Into a War: Florida Stage Play Is Like Dumb & Dumber -- but Dumber, and Set in Kabul

  published October 29, 2009

  For a while, there really were only two known Jews living in Afghanistan. Their names were Isaac Levin and Zebulon Simentov, and they hated... More >>

• Mount St. Elias Documents an Absolutely Crazy Climb, but It's the Humanity That Makes It Worth Watching

  published October 22, 2009

  Alaska's Mount Saint Elias is the third-tallest mountain in North America, and it is notoriously unfriendly. It was first climbed in 1897, and... More >>

• Lessons From South Africa Offers a Lesson in the Need for Editing

  published October 22, 2009

  The rationale behind Lessons From South Africa is something like this: Lots of people in both Miami and South Africa have AIDS, but in... More >>

• Overacting Ruins A Doll House at Palm Beach Dramaworks

  published October 22, 2009

  A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen There is a thick film of half-digested plaster and pressboard coating the streets of downtown... More >>

• Munching Across the Great Divide

  published August 27, 2009

  Two years ago, an editor complained to me that his daughter was using the word random too much. It's not just her, I told him.... More >>

• The Rebirth of Cool

  published August 20, 2009

  For years, whenever anybody said the words Caldwell Theatre, I thought of money, dancing girls, big production numbers, jukebox... More >>

• Vices: A Love Story at Caldwell Theatre dives into obsession

  published July 23, 2009

  Vices begins with a sexy dance and a hard funk-rock instrumental that is leaner, meaner, weirder, and more modern than any bit of music... More >>

• The Rock of the Aged

  published July 9, 2009

  Jesus, they’re still here. How? In the last dozen years, the salty boys of Aerosmith have endured a string of mishaps so consistent... More >>

• Potentialities of the Human Soul

  published June 25, 2009

  Good theater is where you find it, and through July 19 at Rising Action Theatre, you'll find it in actor John McGlothlin's stubbly, twitching... More >>

• Dirty Shorts

  published June 25, 2009

  After titillating audiences at the Arsht Center for a month, Summer Shorts - South Florida's biggest and weirdest theater tradition - comes... More >>

• Feed a Hungry Kid—and Some Needy Ones Too

  published June 25, 2009

  Apparently, one out of every six kids in SoFla goes without proper nutrition. This is wrong - especially since the other five kids are fat - which... More >>

• Floridian High Culture

  published June 11, 2009

  Florida is not a naturally great place for an artist to do his or her work — the land is right, but the culture’s wrong — and that... More >>

• A Dark, Dark Mind

  published June 4, 2009

  Neil LaBute became famous as a brutalizer of psyches, his characters' and ours. His early plays, in the late 1990s, were all about the evils... More >>

• Love Your Art...

  published May 28, 2009

  Yankee Tavern is a new play by Texan playwright Steven Dietz that proposes a universe where Occam's razor rubs backward, and a boring,... More >>

• Not Dumb at All

  published May 21, 2009

  Dumb Show is the "small, light show" Joe Penhall wanted to write after the "big, dark show" Blue/Orange. The Promethean Theatre... More >>

• Marble’s Got Feelings Too

  published May 21, 2009

  The Norton Museum would like to correct a wrong. According to the museum’s recent press release, the world is full of paint fetishists who... More >>

• A Break From Luck

  published May 14, 2009

  Bad things happen to the Promethean Theatre, the resident theater company of Nova Southeastern University. It’s an awesome company, no... More >>

• Gender Politics

  published May 7, 2009

  Broward Stage Door didn't have to make The Odd Couple edgy. It didn't have to drag the thing in any exciting new directions. It didn't... More >>