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.

  • 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
  • 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