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.

  • Westminster Abbey

    London, England

    Various, Transept, 1245–1269
  • The National Gallery

    London, England

    Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni(?) Arnolfini and his Wife, 1434
  • National Portrait Gallery

    London, England

    Master John, King Edward VI of England, 1547
  • A Single Man

    Choreography by Jonathan Watkins / Music by John Grant and Jasmin Kent Rodgman / Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood (Royal Ballet)

    Curtain call at A Single Man
  • Tower Bridge

    London, England

    Sir Horace Jones, Tower Bridge, 1886-1894
  • Cowley Manor

    Cheltenham, United Kingdom

    George Somers Clarke, Cowley Manor, 1855–1860
  • TWA Terminal

    New York, NY

    Eero Saarinen, TWA terminal, 1962
  • Pretentiousness: Why it Matters

    by Dan Fox

    “Claims to ordinariness and salt-of-the-earth virtue—‘slumming it,’ as it’s crudely called—are themselves pretentious. The assumption that dropping your aitches or asserting a love of a cheap beer over a fine wine, or processed cheese over a Parmesan, will make you seem unspoiled or somehow more gritty is classic downwardly mobile play-acting.”

  • The Thursday Murder Club

    Directed by Chris Columbus

    “Well, imagine if we only ever did what we were supposed to,”

  • The Wiz

    Book by William F. Brown / Music by Charlie Smalls, Timothy Graphenreed, Harold Wheeler, George Faison, and Luther Vandross / Lyrics by Charlie Smalls, Zachary Walzer, and Luther Vandross / Based on “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum / Directed by Schele Williams (Broadway in Boston)

    Curtain call at The Wiz
  • Who Done It: The Clue Documentary

    Directed by Jeff C. Smith

    “If you do a good play and it gets bad reviews and nobody comes it’s off in a week or two and that’s the end of it, it’s gone forever. If you do a film that’s not well received to start with, it turns out it can have a life after death.”

  • Sweet Charity

    Directed by Bob Fosse

    “Wow! This place sure is crawlin’ with celebrities. I’m the only person here I never heard of.”

  • Marci X

    Directed by Richard Benjamin

    “Can you imagine being addicted to heroin?”“It’s heartbreaking.”“But does the weight stay off?”

  • Killing Stella

    by Marlen Haushofer (translated by Shaun Whiteside)

    “The act of salvation is never performed, because anyone with the strength to carry it out is unaware that they must do it, and the knowing person is incapable of action.”

  • Vanessa

    Music by Samuel Barber / Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti / Adapted by Jacob Ashworth / Arranged by Dan Schlosberg / Directed by R.B. Schlather (Williamstown Theatre Festival)

    Curtain call at Vanessa
  • Camino Real

    by Tennessee Williams / Directed by Dustin Wills (Williamstown Theatre Festival)

    Curtain call at Camino Real
  • My Mom Jayne

    Directed by Mariska Hargitay

    “I would love to have had one more conversation with your father before he passed away, because I also would like to apologize to him because I’m sure I was also part of his suffering.” “Well, you’re 89, so you’ll get to tell him soon.”

  • Pittsburgh

    Directed by Chris Bradley and Kyle LaBrache

    “With a capital T, and that gotsta rhyme with a P, and that stands for pool!”

  • The Wizard of Oz

    Music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg / Book by L. Frank Baum / Additional music by Herbert Stothart / Based on “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum / Directed by Robert W. Schneider (North Shore Music Theatre)

    Curtain call at The Wizard of Oz
  • Our Evenings

    by Alan Hollinghurst

    “Sometimes it is the evidence, the spectacle of another person’s grief that harrows you, more than the loss itself.”