Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,399 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • The Drowsy Chaperone

    The Drowsy Chaperone

    Music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison / Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar / Directed and choreographed by Larry Sousa (Lyric Stage Company)

    Curtain call at The Drowsy Chaperone
  • Nasturtium Breakfast 2024

    Nasturtium Breakfast 2024

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    View of the courtyard with nasturtiums in foreground
  • Summer Crossing

    Summer Crossing

    by Truman Capote

    “Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.”

  • Cost of Living

    Cost of Living

    by Martyna Majok / Directed by Alex Lonati (Speakeasy Stage Company)

    Curtain call at Cost of Living
  • Design Special

    Design Special

    Kinfolk Magazine

    “Growth is often associated with moving on. It’s a commonly posed question, for example, whether one should ever vacation in the same place twice. If travel broadens the mind, the argument goes, then a travel itinerary should be as broad as the horizon. There’s such a lot of the world to see: Why go back again?”

  • Max Raabe and Palast Orchester

    Max Raabe and Palast Orchester

    Celebrity Series of Boston (Symphony Hall)

    The ensemble takes a bow
  • eternal sunshine

    eternal sunshine

    by Ariana Grande

  • Arghavan Khosravi

    Arghavan Khosravi

    Newport Art Museum (Newport, RI)

    Arghavan Khosravi, Untitled, 2020 (right); The Pain, 2020 (right)
  • Newport Casino

    Newport Casino

    Newport, RI

    McKim, Mead & White, Newport Casino, 1879
  • The Breakers

    The Breakers

    Newport Mansions

    Richard Morris Hunt, The Breakers, 1893-1895
  • Pretty Woman

    Pretty Woman

    Music by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance / Book by Garry Marshall and J. F. Lawton / Based on “Pretty Woman” by J. F. Lawton / Directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell (Broadway in Boston, Boston, MA)

    Curtain call at Pretty Woman

  • Harry, Haydn + Mozart

    Harry, Haydn + Mozart

    Handel and Haydn Society (Symphony Hall)

    The ensemble takes a bow
  • Answered Prayers

    Answered Prayers

    by Truman Capote

    “Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.”

  • Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West

    Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA)

    Raqib Shaw, The Retrospective 2002–2022, 2015-2022 (background); Small Adam, 2011 (foreground)
  • Art in Tune 2024

    Art in Tune 2024

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    A Baroque duo performs
  • Watermark: An Essay on Venice

    Watermark: An Essay on Venice

    by Joseph Brodsky

    “Aesthetic sense is the twin of one’s instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

  • A Case for the Existence of God

    A Case for the Existence of God

    by Samuel D. Hunter / Directed by Melinda Lopez (Speakeasy Stage Company)

    Curtain call at A Case for the Existence of God
  • Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances

    Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances

    by Lisa Morton

    “The unusual name was supplied by [Elijah] Bond’s sister-in-law, medium Helen Peters, who asked the board for a name and watched as it spelled O-U-I-J-A (although there’s also been speculation that the name is a combination of the French and German words for ‘yes’).”

  • The Color Purple

    The Color Purple

    Directed by Blitz Bazawule

    “I may be Black. I may be poor. I may even be ugly. But I’m here!”

  • Affinities: On Art and Fascination

    Affinities: On Art and Fascination

    by Brian Dillon

    “Stared at as closely or keenly as possible, even the most elegant, precise, or selfsame forms are revealed as monsters.”