Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,374 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • A Night at the Cabaret

    A Night at the Cabaret

    Directed by Kaitlyn Chantry (Longwood Players)

    Patrick Harris performs “Christmas Tips” from Co-op: The Musical
  • Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

    Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

    by Agnes Arnold-Forster

    “One of the most confounding things about nostalgia is not just its transformation from disease to emotion, but also its slow conversion from something associated with place, to a feeling connected to time.”

  • Some Like it Hot

    Some Like it Hot

    Book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin / Music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman / Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw (Broadway in Boston, Boston, MA)

    Curtain call at Some Like It Hot

  • Secret Mall Apartment

    Secret Mall Apartment

    Directed by Jeremy Workman

    “People being evicted, people losing their spaces, people getting kicked out, people getting priced out, it was just sorta something kinda happening. The mall comes, totally remakes your neighborhood, you adjust. It doesn’t adjust to you. You adjust to it. And it was impossible to not see the apartment project through that lens.”

  • One Battle After Another

    One Battle After Another

    Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

    “I’ve got a little Latino Harriet Tubman situation going on at my place. All legit. From the heart. No cash.”

  • Oedipus

    Oedipus

    Written and directed by Robert Icke, after Sophocles (Studio 54, New York City, NY)

  • Finding Dorothy Parker

    Finding Dorothy Parker

    Compiled and directed by Douglas Carter Beane (Laurie Beechman Theatre)

    Anika Larsen, Jackie Hoffmann, Julie Halston, and Ann Harada perform
  • Art in Tune 2026

    Art in Tune 2026

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA)

    Members of the Handel and Haydn Society perform
  • Barber: Vanessa

    Barber: Vanessa

    Music by Samuel Barber / Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti / Conducted by Andris Nelsons (Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Lyric Opera)

    The ensemble takes a bow after Vanessa
  • Permanent collection

    Permanent collection

    Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA)

  • Bright Lights, Big City

    Bright Lights, Big City

    by Jay McInerney

    “But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.”

  • Wake Up Dead Man

    Wake Up Dead Man

    Directed by Rian Johnson

    “Yes. ‘Benoit Blanc PWNED.’ Owned with a P, whatever that means.”

  • Limbo

    Limbo

    by Dan Fox

    “Limbo is at the apex of visual sophistication: an extra-dimensional loft done out in luxury-plain Jil Sander grey. Empty and placid, with not even a reproduction Eames chair to interrupt the anodyne tastefulness. No mess, no colour, no life. No hint of recidivist ornament – Adolf Loos would have loved limbo. In Harold Pinter’s words, a ‘No man’s land, which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, which remains forever icy and silent.’”

  • Fun Home

    Fun Home

    Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron / Music by Jeanine Tesori / Based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir / Directed by Logan Ellis (Huntington Theater Company)

    Curtain call at Fun Home

  • The Edwardians

    The Edwardians

    by Vita Sackville-West

    “‘Since one cannot have truth,’ cried Sebastian, struggling into his evening shirt, ‘let us at least have good manners.’”

  • Scrooge: The Musical

    Scrooge: The Musical

    Book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse / Directed by Toni Ruscio (Curtain Call Theatre)

    “Christmas children peek through Christmas windows.”

  • Wicked: For Good

    Wicked: For Good

    Directed by Jon M. Chu

    “You see, back where I come from, we got a whole lot of people who believe all sorts of things that aren’t true. You know what we call it? History.”

  • Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

    Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

    with Myra Huang, piano (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)

    Sasha Cooke and Myra Huang take a bow
  • Martin Puryear: Nexus

    Martin Puryear: Nexus

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA)

    Installation view, Nexus
  • Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer

    Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA)

    Rachel Ryusch, An Arrangement of Flowers by a Trunk, about 1683