Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,263 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • Here We Are

    Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim / Book by David Ives / Based on “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” by Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière and “The Exterminating Angel” by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza / Directed by Joe Mantello (The Shed NYC)

    Curtain call at Here We Are

  • Merrily We Roll Along

    Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim / Book by George Furth / Based on “Merrily We Roll Along” by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart / Directed by Maria Friedman (Hudson Theatre)

    Curtain call at Merrily We Roll Along

  • The Full Monty

    Music and lyrics by David Yazbek / Book by Terrence McNally / Based on “The Full Monty” by Simon Beaufoy / Directed and choreographed by Gerry McIntyre (North Shore Music Theatre)

    Curtain call at The Full Monty

  • POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

    by Selina Fillinger / Directed by Paula Plum (Speakeasy Stage Company)

    Curtain call at POTUS

  • Scandanavia Special

    Kinfolk Magazine

    “Tackiness may require unabashed love, but it also rewards those who get the references—and the current mood. As Karl Lagerfeld once proclaimed, ‘Trendy is the last stage before tacky.’ The tack-o-meter is constantly adjusting. It moves with the times, chewing up the past to recalibrate our present tastes.”

  • Where All Good Flappers Go: Essential Stories of the Jazz Age

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, and more

    “He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist.”

  • Theater Camp

    Directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman

    “Can I offer you a roll? Or the chilling tale of how I lost my daughter?”

  • A Haunting in Venice

    Directed by Kenneth Branagh

    “I know only that we cannot hide from our ghosts, whether they are real or not, we must make our peace with them, and live life somehow.”

  • The Postal Service & Death Cab For Cutie: Give Up & Transatlanticism

    MGM Music Hall

    The band plays

  • A New Brain

    Music and lyrics by William Finn / Book by William Finn and James Lapine / Directed by Joe Calarco (Barrington Stage Company)

    Curtain call at A New Brain

  • Frelinghuysen Morris House and Museum

    Lenox, MA

    George L.K. Morris, Configuration, 1936 (sculpture, left); Fresco, c. 1941 (right)

  • Drama Queen

    by Idina Menzel

  • Escape to Margaritaville

    Music and lyrics by Jimmy Buffett / Book by Greg Garcia and Mike O’Malley / Directed and choreographed by Charlie Sutton (North Shore Music Theatre)

    Curtain call at Escape to Margaritaville

  • Barbie

    Directed by Greta Gerwig

    “Humans have only one ending. Ideas live for ever.”

  • Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago

    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Watershed)

    Guadalupe Maravilla, Mariposa Relámpago, 2023

  • BLAU International No. 8

    BLAU International (Phillip Taaffe cover)

    “Recently, the New York Times published a story about BLAU International’s headquarters in Berlin. We only realized how much it must have struck a chord with the readers when the Times subsequently posted one image from the story on their Instagram account. ‘Is it a magazine—or is it a cult?’ was one of the more frequently asked questions the readers seemed to have, the most probable answer being: both.”

  • Simone Leigh

    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

    Simone Leigh, Las Meninas, 2019 (center); Sentinel IV, 2020

  • Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl

    Directed by Zackary Drucker

    “Tinsley Mortimer dropped on the scene like a bombshell.”

  • The Sound of Music

    Music by Richard Rodgers / Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II / Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse / Based on “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers” by Maria von Trapp / Directed by Kevin P. Hill (North Shore Music Theatre)

    Curtain call at The Sound of Music

  • The Fawn

    by Magda SzabĂł (translated by Len Rix)

    “I have always distrusted good people. I never believed as a child that goodness came naturally. I always suspected that beneath it lay some sort of payment for services past or still to come.”