Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,410 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • 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
  • When Playwrights Kill

    When Playwrights Kill

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

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

    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

    The Nasturtium Party 2026

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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

    The Mayhem Ball

    Lady Gaga (TD Garden)

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

    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, New York City, NY)

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

    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

    Titaníque

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

    Curtain call at Titaníque
  • The Wild Party

    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

    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.