Kyle A. Thomas, Ph.D. (he/him)
@kyleathomas.bsky.social
Theatre & Performance Historian
Ensemble Member at Stage Left Theatre (Chicago) • Featured Expert on Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (Discovery Channel) • Editor of ROMARD Journal • Reviewer for ChicagoOnStage.com
Ensemble Member at Stage Left Theatre (Chicago) • Featured Expert on Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (Discovery Channel) • Editor of ROMARD Journal • Reviewer for ChicagoOnStage.com
A recently uncovered 3rd-century CE papyrus fragment from Egypt containing excerpts from two lost plays by Euripides also reveals how scripts in the ancient world were constructed for performance!
September 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A recently uncovered 3rd-century CE papyrus fragment from Egypt containing excerpts from two lost plays by Euripides also reveals how scripts in the ancient world were constructed for performance!
Love this company and how we’re re-imagining Store Front Theatre in Chicago!
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August 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Love this company and how we’re re-imagining Store Front Theatre in Chicago!
Essay: howlround.com/how-stage-le...
@howlround.bsky.social
Essay: howlround.com/how-stage-le...
@howlround.bsky.social
I so hope there’s a huge cache of Greek and Roman plays that are amongst these scrolls 🤞🏻
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
February 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I so hope there’s a huge cache of Greek and Roman plays that are amongst these scrolls 🤞🏻
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
My review of Redtwist Theatre’s world-premiere play, THE TOTALITY OF ALL THINGS by Erik Gernand is out now.
The gist: go see this excellent production!!
www.chicagoonstage.com/a-total-phil...
The gist: go see this excellent production!!
www.chicagoonstage.com/a-total-phil...
December 10, 2024 at 8:37 PM
My review of Redtwist Theatre’s world-premiere play, THE TOTALITY OF ALL THINGS by Erik Gernand is out now.
The gist: go see this excellent production!!
www.chicagoonstage.com/a-total-phil...
The gist: go see this excellent production!!
www.chicagoonstage.com/a-total-phil...
I so loved directing this show. Hard to believe it’s been 8 years now!
The 12th-century PLAY OF ADAM (trans. Carol Symes) performed at The Cloisters Museum, NYC
#medievalsky #theatresky
The 12th-century PLAY OF ADAM (trans. Carol Symes) performed at The Cloisters Museum, NYC
#medievalsky #theatresky
November 30, 2024 at 9:33 PM
I so loved directing this show. Hard to believe it’s been 8 years now!
The 12th-century PLAY OF ADAM (trans. Carol Symes) performed at The Cloisters Museum, NYC
#medievalsky #theatresky
The 12th-century PLAY OF ADAM (trans. Carol Symes) performed at The Cloisters Museum, NYC
#medievalsky #theatresky
Tis the season for kartoffelspieße at the #christkindlmarkt!
November 30, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Tis the season for kartoffelspieße at the #christkindlmarkt!
She’s only excited about the snow because she doesn’t have to shovel it
November 21, 2024 at 11:46 PM
She’s only excited about the snow because she doesn’t have to shovel it
Seeing this make the rounds. Please know that the event described did not happen and the image is AI-generated. From a cursory search, it seems like a viral marketing campaign for a media company called Manka Bros. Now theatre history is becoming a site of misinformation.
December 22, 2023 at 5:08 PM
Seeing this make the rounds. Please know that the event described did not happen and the image is AI-generated. From a cursory search, it seems like a viral marketing campaign for a media company called Manka Bros. Now theatre history is becoming a site of misinformation.
You certainly don’t disappoint!
November 29, 2023 at 8:17 PM
You certainly don’t disappoint!
A little post Thanksgiving meal walk with an uncooperative pup. Thankful for all of it
November 24, 2023 at 3:42 PM
A little post Thanksgiving meal walk with an uncooperative pup. Thankful for all of it
I found what your dad’s been eating for Thanksgiving
November 22, 2023 at 3:37 PM
I found what your dad’s been eating for Thanksgiving
I’m happy to know the hateful and ignorant decision to threaten this production due to the casting of a trans actor has been reversed. People were rightfully dragging the Sherman, TX principal for their complete blindness to theatre’s own history of xdressing/xgendering, but this was never about art
November 20, 2023 at 9:59 PM
I’m happy to know the hateful and ignorant decision to threaten this production due to the casting of a trans actor has been reversed. People were rightfully dragging the Sherman, TX principal for their complete blindness to theatre’s own history of xdressing/xgendering, but this was never about art
You look like you could use some leisure...
So why not order the latest set in the A Cultural History series on leisure & read my chapter in Vol. II: The Medieval Age on the Performing Arts & Their Audiences! I'm sure it'll be a relaxing & enjoyable experience 😉
www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-...
So why not order the latest set in the A Cultural History series on leisure & read my chapter in Vol. II: The Medieval Age on the Performing Arts & Their Audiences! I'm sure it'll be a relaxing & enjoyable experience 😉
www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-...
November 15, 2023 at 4:38 PM
You look like you could use some leisure...
So why not order the latest set in the A Cultural History series on leisure & read my chapter in Vol. II: The Medieval Age on the Performing Arts & Their Audiences! I'm sure it'll be a relaxing & enjoyable experience 😉
www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-...
So why not order the latest set in the A Cultural History series on leisure & read my chapter in Vol. II: The Medieval Age on the Performing Arts & Their Audiences! I'm sure it'll be a relaxing & enjoyable experience 😉
www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-...
Gonna tell my kids this is Elon Catturd Shapiro Musk
November 13, 2023 at 12:10 AM
Gonna tell my kids this is Elon Catturd Shapiro Musk
Honored and humbled that my video on the history of the African Grove and the African Company was a part of this year’s Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival. The histories of Black and Indigenous storytellers are valuable!
November 12, 2023 at 5:19 PM
Honored and humbled that my video on the history of the African Grove and the African Company was a part of this year’s Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival. The histories of Black and Indigenous storytellers are valuable!
A refreshing, reinvigorating ASTR conference this year in beautiful Providence, RI (another state checked off the visit list). Best part was hanging out with friends & colleagues from our Illinois days!
November 12, 2023 at 5:02 PM
A refreshing, reinvigorating ASTR conference this year in beautiful Providence, RI (another state checked off the visit list). Best part was hanging out with friends & colleagues from our Illinois days!
What did the flyman say to the loader?
"Do you even lift?"
"Do you even lift?"
November 8, 2023 at 8:24 PM
What did the flyman say to the loader?
"Do you even lift?"
"Do you even lift?"
Yeah well I insist on the Classical Greek spelling, θέᾱτρον
November 8, 2023 at 6:28 PM
Yeah well I insist on the Classical Greek spelling, θέᾱτρον
Torii Kiyomasu I was famous for his depictions of kabuki theatre. This 18th-cent. Japanese woodblock print expresses the clever (and much older) practice of using Japanese characters to make the outline of a figure--in this case the one on the right--spelling out that this is a player in disguise.
November 6, 2023 at 10:10 PM
Torii Kiyomasu I was famous for his depictions of kabuki theatre. This 18th-cent. Japanese woodblock print expresses the clever (and much older) practice of using Japanese characters to make the outline of a figure--in this case the one on the right--spelling out that this is a player in disguise.