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

• Stage Capsules

  published December 18, 2008

  The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged By The Reduced Shakespeare Company. Through January 16 at the Adrienne Arsht... More >>

• Stage Capsules

  published December 11, 2008

  The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged By The Reduced Shakespeare Company. Through January 16 at the Adrienne Arsht... More >>

• The M Ensemble's Joe Turner Lacks Dynamic Range

  published November 27, 2008

  The plays of August Wilson have been so celebrated in print that it is probably pointless to begin the discussion anew. If he wasn't the most... More >>

• Naked Stage Gets up the Nerve in Miami Shores

  published November 13, 2008

  Adam Szymkowicz's Nerve needs a new name. Its two characters are notable for many things — guilelessness, instability, horniness,... More >>

• Mad Cat Theatre Gives Us a Mixtape

  published October 30, 2008

  The mixtape cannot achieve perfection. Place Adrian Belew side by side with the X-Ray Specs, and you might draw undue attention to Belew's... More >>

• GableStage Director Talks Politics

  published October 16, 2008

  An actor — I won't say which one — once told me that Joe Adler doesn't write down notes on blocking. This is true. Last Saturday,... More >>

• Actors' Playhouse Does 1776

  published October 9, 2008

  When I saw the new Actors' Playhouse production of 1776, a row of youngsters was seated immediately behind me. Before showtime, they... More >>

• Everything Bad About Jim Tommaney's Ambition

  published September 25, 2008

  In the latest play from the Edge Theatre's artistic director, Jim Tommaney, a young, queer drama critic (like me) works for an alternative... More >>

• GableStage Introduces Us to the Forgotten Actors in the War in Iraq

  published August 28, 2008

  What if Iraq had gone well? was the question many good-hearted liberals asked after reading George Packer's 2007 New Yorker... More >>

• Judas Onstage

  published August 21, 2008

  The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, is a lot of things. It is a courtroom drama and a comedy. It is both a... More >>

• Tupac Shakur Onstage

  published July 24, 2008

  It takes a brave company to produce a play about Tupac Shakur. What market might it appeal to? How many people in Kendall can say they enjoy... More >>

• God Complex

  published July 3, 2008

  Tramaine Berryhill's set for The Fannie Lou Hamer Story is a strange stars-and-stripes affair — all wood, all old-looking, all... More >>

• Duel on the Hill

  published June 26, 2008

  The last time Ronald Reagan referred to America as a "shining city on a hill," he directly attributed the quote to the Puritan John Winthrop.... More >>

• Pinecrest Rep and Summer Shorts Offer Theater Bargains

  published June 5, 2008

  Theatergoing is generally an expensive hobby, but not this week. If you play your cards right, you can see 18 plays for $102. That's 16 short... More >>

• Hot Summer Shorts in the City

  published May 22, 2008

  City Theatre's Summer Shorts was maybe the biggest thing to hit South Florida theater in 2007. It became enshrined as one of the two major... More >>

• Dial M for Mundane

  published May 15, 2008

  There are two kinds of jokes in Rupert Holmes's Thumbs: good ones and bad ones. I'm going to spoil one of each for you, but you'll... More >>

• The M Ensemble's Mastery

  published May 8, 2008

  We're getting to this one a few weeks late, and that's wrong. There isn't a single person in eyeshot of this newspaper who couldn't benefit... More >>

• Death Becomes Her

  published May 1, 2008

  Depressed playwright Sarah Kane killed herself in 1999, and 4.48 Psychosis was her last work. It sounds like a last work, too: full of... More >>

• Mission Impossible

  published April 17, 2008

  Dialectics being the dry things they are, plays set up around meetings-of-minds tend toward the masturbatory and dull. The Mission isn't... More >>

• Great Light Way

  published April 10, 2008

  Dear God, what can be said about Forbidden Broadway? Even the most overwhelmingly devoted theatergoers who see the thing can't think of... More >>

• Carbonell Cold Shoulder

  published April 3, 2008

  It's Carbonell time again. The auditorium at the Broward Center has been booked for months, the menu for the sponsors' gala has long been... More >>

• Sour Milk

  published March 27, 2008

  Plenty of bad things have their partisans. Vegemite, for example. Leonardo DiCaprio, for another. Industrial pork farming. Ralph Reed.... More >>

• Flipping the Bird

  published March 13, 2008

  Not far from Joe Adler's GableStage, convicted sex offenders live under a bridge because they're not allowed to live anywhere else. Many of us... More >>

• Company Loves Misery

  published March 6, 2008

  Many of us are misery junkies, pure and simple. We adore the early records of Elvis Costello and think Cormac McCarthy is entirely too... More >>

• Stage Capsules

  published March 6, 2008

  Spamalot: Strictly speaking, Spam is a cooked-meat product containing bits of many long-dead animals — pigs, chickens,... More >>