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.

  • Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

    Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

    Directed by Quentin Tarantino

    “The lioness has rejoined her cub, and all is right in the jungle.”

  • Hacks: The final season

    Hacks: The final season

    Created by Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, and Jen Statsky

    “Why am I in the rough draft of a car?”

  • Black Swan

    Black Swan

    Book by Jen Silverman / Music, lyrics, and orchestrations by Dave Malloy / Directed and choreographed by Sonya Tayeh (American Repertory Theater)

    Curtain call at Black Swan
  • The Clean Issue

    The Clean Issue

    Kinfolk Magazine

    “‘We are constantly contending with algorithms of all kinds,’ writes Kyle Chayka in his book Filterworld, ‘each one attempting to guess what we are thinking of, seeking and desiring.’”

  • Swept Away

    Swept Away

    Book by John Logan / Music and lyrics by The Avett Brothers / Directed by Jeremy Johnson (Speakeasy Stage Company)

    Curtain call at Swept Away
  • Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style

    Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style

    by W. David Marx

    “So how did the Japanese save American style? The Americans discarded style as it became unfashionable and moved on to new things. The Japanese collected, analysed and improved it, and sold it back.”

  • The Crucible

    The Crucible

    by Arthur Miller / Directed by Toni Ruscio (Curtain Call Theatre)

    “He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!”

  • Spring Experience 2026

    Spring Experience 2026

    Choreography by Jerome Robbins, William Forsythe, and Lia Cirio (Boston Ballet)

    Curtain call of William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman
  • The Comeback: The final season

    The Comeback: The final season

    Created by Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King

    “Cause when it comes down to other people’s opinions, don’t listen to Emmy of them!”

  • Seussical: The Musical

    Seussical: The Musical

    Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty / Music by Stephen Flaherty / Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens / Based on the stories of Dr. Seuss / Directed by Stefani Wood (Riverside Theatre Works)

    The concessions menu provided more questions than answers
  • The Devil Wears Prada 2

    The Devil Wears Prada 2

    Directed by David Frankel

    “And the models were encouraged to mill around like starving goats in the parking lot of a methadone clinic in New Jersey?”

  • The Adding Machine

    The Adding Machine

    by Elmer L. Rice with revisions by Thomas Bradshaw / Directed by Scott Elliott (The New Group, live stream)

    Jennifer Tilly is the most perfect actor of our era.

  • “Satisfy your mind by responding to your senses. We need to be actively conscious of them and not going about aimlessly in our daily lives.”

  • Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays

    Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays

    by Tom McCarthy

    “It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.”

  • Art in Bloom 2026

    Art in Bloom 2026

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA)

  • Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

    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, Boston, MA)

    Curtain call at Beauty and the Beast

  • Tokyo: The Monocle Travel Guide

    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

    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

    Superbloom

    by Jessie Ware

  • Derrick Adams: View Master

    Derrick Adams: View Master

    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Boston, MA)

    Derrick Adams, Hood Rats, 2000