Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,376 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • Here Lies Love

    Here Lies Love

    Music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim / Lyrics by David Byrne / Based on “Here Lies Love” by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim / Directed by Alex Timbers (Broadway Theatre, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at Here Lies Love
  • Here We Are

    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

    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, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at Merrily We Roll Along
  • The Full Monty

    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, Beverly MA)

    Curtain call at The Full Monty

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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 band plays

  • A New Brain

    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

    Frelinghuysen Morris House and Museum

    Lenox, MA

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

    Drama Queen

    by Idina Menzel

  • Escape to Margaritaville

    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, Beverly MA)

    Curtain call at Escape to Margaritaville
  • Barbie

    Barbie

    Directed by Greta Gerwig

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

  • Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago

    Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago

    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Watershed (Boston, MA)

    Guadalupe Maravilla, Mariposa Relámpago, 2023

  • BLAU International No. 8

    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

    Simone Leigh

    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Boston, MA)

    Simone Leigh, Las Meninas, 2019 (center); Sentinel IV, 2020
  • Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl

    Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl

    Directed by Zackary Drucker

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

  • The Sound of Music

    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, Beverly MA)

    Curtain call at The Sound of Music