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.

  • 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
  • Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor

    Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA)

    Winslow Homer, Long Branch, New Jersey, 1869

  • Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice

    Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice

    by J.F. Martel

    “Any adequate response to the mystery of existence must be poetic, for only the poetic can take on the ‘why.’”

  • Kelli O’Hara

    Kelli O’Hara

    Vivo Performing Arts (Symphony Hall)

    Kelli O’Hara performs with her combo

  • Claire Chase with Aisslinn Nosky, Katinka Kleijn, and Alex Peh

    Claire Chase with Aisslinn Nosky, Katinka Kleijn, and Alex Peh

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Calderwood Hall)

    The ensemble takes a bow
  • The Roses

    The Roses

    Directed by Jay Roach

    “I never thought watching a white man reclaim his power could be so moving.”

  • A Night in the Stacks 2025

    A Night in the Stacks 2025

    Boston Public Library

    Patrick and I in our costumes as the Gardner Museum Heist
  • Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus Wainwright

    with Baby Alpaca (City Winery Boston)

    Rufus Wainwright performs
  • Matthias Goerne, baritone and Daniil Trifonov, piano

    Matthias Goerne, baritone and Daniil Trifonov, piano

    Celebrity Series of Boston (NEC’s Jordan Hall)

    Daniil Trifonov and Matthias Goerne take a bow
  • First Look: Affordable Art Fair Boston 2025

    First Look: Affordable Art Fair Boston 2025

    SoWa Power Station

    Overhead view of the exhibitors

  • The Cher Show

    The Cher Show

    Book by Rick Elice / Featuring the music of Cher / Directed by Kevin P. Hill (North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly MA)

    Curtain call at The Cher Show
  • Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory

    Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA)

  • “I’m talking about how we—and I mean here the ‘we’ of people who have experienced some kind of trauma, which I think is a very large category indeed—how we manage the serious burden that we carry, how we contain it, what spent fuel pool or dry cask storage we improvise for material that is even now still leaking its lethal isotopes.”

  • Chess

    Chess

    Book by Danny Strong / Music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus / Lyrics by Tim Rice / Directed by Michael Mayer (Imperial Theatre, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at Chess
  • Oh, Mary!

    Oh, Mary!

    by Cole Escola / Directed by Sam Pinkleton (Lyceum Theatre, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at Oh, Mary!

  • Kiss of the Spider Woman

    Kiss of the Spider Woman

    Directed by Bill Condon

    “Homosexuals always die in Hollywood movies. Most of the time, they kill themselves.”