Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,364 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • Art in Bloom 2026

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

    Book by Linda Woolverton / Music by Alan Menken / Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice / Directed and choreographed by Matt West (Broadway in Boston)

    Curtain call at Beauty and the Beast

  • Tokyo: The Monocle Travel Guide

    by Monocle

    “In the West, frozen water is simply used to chill and dilute a drink; in Japan it is an active participant.”

  • Curator Conversations

    by Tim Clark

    “…the writer and critic David Levi Strauss has observed: ‘One could say that the split within curating – between the management and control of public works (law) and the cure of souls (faith) – was there from the beginning. Curators have always been a curious mixture of bureaucrat and priest.’”

  • Superbloom

    by Jessie Ware

  • Derrick Adams: View Master

    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

    Derrick Adams, Hood Rats, 2000
  • When Playwrights Kill

    by Matthew Lombardo / Directed by Noah Himmelstein (Huntington Theatre)

    Curtain call at When Playwrights Kill
  • It’s Dorothy!

    Directed by Jeffrey McHale

    “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard.”

  • The Nasturtium Party 2026

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    Close-up of hanging nasturtiums in Fenway Court
  • The Mayhem Ball

    Lady Gaga (TD Garden)

    Lady Gaga performs “How Bad Do U Want Me”
  • Cats: The Jellicle Ball

    Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot / Directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch (Broadhurst Theatre)

    Curtain call at Cats: The Jellicle Ball
  • The Wild Party

    Book by George C. Wolfe and Michael John LaChiusa / Music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa / Based on “The Wild Party” by Joseph Moncure March / Directed by Lili-Anne Brown (NYC City Center)

    Curtain call at The Wild Party
  • Titaníque

    Book by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle and Constantine Rousouli / Featuring the music of Celine Dion / Directed by Tye Blue (St. James Theatre)

    Curtain call at Titaníque
  • The Wild Party

    by Joseph Moncure March with illustrations by Art Spiegelman

    “The rest were simply repetitions
    Of the more notorious. Slim editions: Less practised; less hardened:
    Less vicious; less strong:
    Just a nice crowd trying to get along.”

  • Dianaworld: An Obsession

    by Edward White

    Diana once snuck out in male drag to go to the Royal Vauxhall, a famous London gay bar, with Freddie Mercury.

  • Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

    Vivo Performing Arts (Symphony Hall)

    Víkingur Ólafsson takes a bow
  • “Isn’t that it, to be yourself and somehow, to belong?”

  • “I think there’s a real thirst for younger generations to have those kinds of spaces. I think as younger generations maybe look to gay restaurants or gay cafes as possible meeting places, I think that’s also going to bring up interest in the past when those kinds of places were everywhere, at least in gay neighborhoods and also in small towns and medium sized cities as well.”

  • Borromeo String Quartet

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Calderwood Hall)

    Borromeo String Quartet takes a bow
  • Stereophonic

    by David Adjmi / Music by Will Butler / Directed by Daniel Aukin (Emerson Colonial Theatre)

    Curtain call at Stereophonic