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

• 2007: The Moments in Review

  published December 20, 2007

  In a few months New Times will roll out its annual "Best Of" issue. Nestled among Best Tattoo Artist, Best Streetside Falafel Stand, and... More >>

• Martha Mitchell Calling

  published December 13, 2007

  Five things you should know before seeing Martha Mitchell Calling: 1. Martha Mitchell Calling is irritating. It's... More >>

• Soul Porn

  published December 6, 2007

  Danny and the Deep Blue Sea was a last-minute addition to the Alliance Theatre Lab's season. It was an economics thing,... More >>

• Stage Capsules

  published December 6, 2007

  Cosi Fan Tutte: Lorenzo Da Ponte's translated libretto of the Mozart opera is bolstered by good comic acting, especially from... More >>

• Theater Project Stirs Spontaneous Creation

  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 >>

• Lovers and Lycanthropes

  published November 22, 2007

  After squinting and squinting, picking out maybe one in 10 words of the translated libretto projected above the stage, I was not in a good mood... More >>

• Might as Well Be Driving Jitneys

  published November 15, 2007

  The M Ensemble is one of South Florida's longest-extant pro theater companies, and I like it a lot. It has a refreshing DIY vibe that is... More >>

• Stage Capsules

  published November 15, 2007

  Triptych: Edna O'Brien's story tells of three women (a mistress, a wife, and a daughter) who plot against one another for the... More >>

• Stage Capsules

  published November 8, 2007

  Little Shop of Horrors: Huge carnivorous plants from outer space really capture the imagination. Witness how Alan Menken and... More >>

• The Return of the Great Ginger Blooze

  published November 8, 2007

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

• Stage Capsules

  published November 1, 2007

  Little Shop of Horrors: Huge carnivorous plants from outer space really capture the imagination. Witness how Alan Menken and... More >>

• Reality Bites

  published October 25, 2007

  Let's talk about race. There is a tendency among white folks (and I am a very white folk) to lavish uncritical praise upon any piece of... More >>

• The Grand

  published October 18, 2007

  "Poker is a cosmic metaphor," Woody Harrelson explains early in The Grand. "No matter how the cards fall, you think you can still... More >>

• Taking the Piss

  published October 18, 2007

  Worldwide ecological disaster has a way of changing a man. So says Caldwell B. Cladwell, and he's probably right — but not too... More >>

• Harlem-upon-Avon

  published October 11, 2007

  Shakespeare and Melvin Van Peebles are not generally mentioned in the same breath, though soon they'll be sharing the same stage. This is... More >>

• Painting Portraits

  published October 4, 2007

  Edmund Farraday will not sell out. He refuses. He's young, he's an artist, he has long hair, and he likes Rousseau. He is a free spirit,... More >>

• Stage Capsules

  published October 4, 2007

  Talk Radio: Eric Bogosian's play (which was filmed by Oliver Stone in 1988) about radio host Barry Champlain, once a small-time... More >>

• Stage Capsules

  published September 27, 2007

  Live from the Edge: Presented by the Miami Light Project is fusion theater from the New York-based Universes ensemble. The show... More >>

• Two Scenes

  published August 30, 2007

  Act One: AmericanAirlines Arena, Wednesday, August 22. Big steps covered with darting humanity. Camera crews, journos, fast-moving... More >>

• Sacred Screwball

  published August 23, 2007

  So: last show of the Shakespeare Festival — now "Shakespeare & Friends" — at New Theatre. Crippling fear gripped this reviewer... More >>

• Good Cop, Mad Cop

  published August 16, 2007

  The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a lighthearted political satire prominently featuring four murders, two toenail-pullings, one... More >>

• Too Cruel for School

  published August 9, 2007

  Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy is a lot like The Passion of the Christ. It's torture-porn,... More >>

• Laugh Back in Anger

  published July 26, 2007

  TomFoolery was first produced by the Actors' Playhouse in 1989, when the troupe was operating out of Kendall. They did it there... More >>

• Snoozing Through Sex

  published June 28, 2007

  Smut is either the least sexy show about sex in the history of theater, or theater's most subversive pro-abstinence statement. These things... More >>

• Do Y'all Ever Need an Editor?

  published June 14, 2007

  Not every trip to the theater needs to end with an earth-shattering, paradigm-shifting, consciousness-expanding lesson, but Summer Shorts... More >>