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.

  • The Davis Sisters Present: Ethel!

    The Davis Sisters (The Dance Complex)

    The Davis Sisters channel Ethel Merman’s Disco Album

  • The Little Match Girl Passion

    Composed by David Lang (Aeronaut Brewing Co.)

    The ensemble performs

  • A Star is Born

    Directed by Bradley Cooper

    “Your nose is beautiful. Are you showing me your nose right now? You don’t have to show it to me. I’ve been looking at it all night.”

  • Lonnie Holley: Thumbs Up For the Mothership

    MASS MoCA

    Lonnie Holley, After the Revival (Vox Humana III: The Strength of Music Lives After the Instruments Are Destroyed), 2017

  • PermaDeath: A Video Game Opera

    Music by Dan Visconti / Libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs and Pirate Epstein (White Snake Projects)

    Curtain call at PermaDeath

  • Jekyll and Hyde

    Music by Frank Wildhorn / Lyrics by Frank Wildhorn, Leslie Bricusse, and Steve Cuden / Book by Leslie Bricusse / Based on “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson / Directed by Robert Cuccioli (North Shore Music Theatre)

    Curtain call at Jekyll and Hyde

  • The Print Issue

    Kinfolk Magazine

    “Our language and our forms of communication aren’t stuck in time: New clichĂ©s are always creeping into the culture. And the omnipresent emoji is today’s digital analogue to the printers’ cast plates of days gone by. It clicks easily into our most casual writing and, like a time-honored clichĂ©, it conveys shared feeling almost effortlessly. Electronically reproduced emotion: how handy.”

  • Hamilton

    Music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda / Based on “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow / Directed by Thomas Kail (Broadway in Boston)

    Curtain call at Hamilton

  • The Original: A Spectacle In Motion: The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ’Round the World

    New Bedford Whaling Museum (Kilburn Mill)

    A particularly threatening panel of the panorama

  • Kiss of the Spider Woman

    Music by John Kander / Lyrics by Fred Ebb / Book by Terrence McNally / Based on “Kiss of the Spider Woman” by Manuel Puig / Directed and choreographed by Rachel Bertone (Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

    Curtain call at Kiss of the Spider Woman

  • The Book of Mormon

    Music, lyrics, and book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone / Directed and choreographed by Jennifer Werner based on the original Broadway direction by Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw (Broadway in Boston)

    Curtain call at The Book of Mormon

  • Dark Room

    by George Brandt / Based on the life and work of Francesca Woodman / Directed by Olivia D’Ambrosio (Bridge Rep)

    Curtain call at Dark Room

  • Moulin Rouge! The Musical

    Book by John Logan / Based on “Moulin Rouge!” by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce / Directed by Alex Timbers (Emerson Colonial Theatre)

    Curtain call at Moulin Rouge! The Musical

  • The Band’s Visit

    by David Yazbek

  • Cooper and Casey at MIT

    MIT Museum

    A wall of black, white, and red posters

  • Aladdin

    Music by Alan Menken / Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, and Chad Beguelin / Book by Chad Beguelin / Based on “Aladdin” by Ron Clements, John Musker, Ted Elliott, and Terry Rossio / Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw (Broadway in Boston)

    Curtain call at Aladdin

  • Moulin Rouge! The Musical

    Book by John Logan / Based on “Moulin Rouge!” by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce / Directed by Alex Timbers (Emerson Colonial Theatre)

    Opening night, and the only time in history curtain call was entered from the trapeze

  • On the Town

    Music by Leonard Bernstein / Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green / Book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green / Based on “Fancy Free” by Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein (Boston Pops at Tanglewood)

    Curtain call at On the Town

  • DIVAS

    by Laura Neill / Featuring musical selections ranging from Purcell to Puccini / Directed by Adrienne Boris (OperaHub in collaboration with The Diva Museum)

    Curtain call at DIVAS

  • RenĂ©e Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo

    Boston Pops (Symphony Hall)

    The ensemble performs