Brooklyn, NY – 29 October 2019. The dress rehearsal of Hamnet, Written and directed by Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel, at BAM Fisher (Fishman Space). %0APresented in association with Irish Arts Center%0ADead Centre%0AText by Bush Moukarzel, Ben Kidd, and William Shakespeare%0ADramaturgy by Michael West%0ASet design by Andrew Clancy%0ACostume design by Grace O'Hara%0ALighting design by Stephen Dodd%0ASound design by Kevin Gleeson%0AVideo design by Jose Miguel Jimenez%0AChoreography by Liv O'Donoghue%0AHamnet played by Aran Murphy

Based on texts by Eugene Ionesco, and performed by the Théatre de la Ville, director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota mashes up The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Frenzy for Two, or more; Jack, or the Submission; and French Conversation and Diction Exercises for American Students.

A behind-the-scenes look at director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota putting last-minute touches on his Ionesco Suite at BAM. Based on texts by Eugene Ionesco, and performed by the Théatre de la Ville, director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota mashes up The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Frenzy for Two, or more; Jack, or the Submission; and French Conversation and Diction Exercises for American Students.

28 November 2018 - Brooklyn, NY. The dress rehearsal of The Good Swimmer, with music by Heidi Rodewald, Lyrics by Donna Di Novelli, and directed by Kevin Newbury. Part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival.

Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, produced by The Philharmonia Orchestra of New York, Atsushi Yamada, principal concert conductor and artistic director.

Dress rehearsal of Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, directed and designed by Rithy Panh, music by Him Sophy, libretto by Trent Walker.

The New York premiere of Memory Rings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 17 November 2016.

Norwegian art collective Verdenstheatret's Bridge over Mud (Broen over Gjorme)

The dress rehearsal of Sufjan Stevens' Round-Up, with slow-motion film of the Pendleton, Oregon Round-Up by Aason and Alex Craig, and music performed by Sufjan Stevens and Yarn/Wire.

Samuel Beckett's radio play "Embers", produced by the Pan Pan Theatre Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on 17 September 2014. Directed by Gavin Quinn; sculpture by Andrew Clancy; lighting design by Aedín Cosgrove; sound design by Jimmy Eadie. With Andrew Bennett as Harvey and Áine Ni Mhuirí as Ada.

BASETRACK Live, creatd by Edward Bilous; composed by Michelle DiBucci, Edward Bilous, and Greg Kalember; directed by Seth Bockley. Featuring Ashley Brown and Tyler La Marr. Performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 11-15 November 2014.

The American premiere of "The Table" ("Stolik"), performed by the Polish ensemble Karbido, from Wroclaw, part of the 2013 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The U.S. debut of Planetarium, a song cycle composed and performed by Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, and Sufjan Stevens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Mondomusica New York brings stringed instrument makers and dealers from the Americas, Europe and Asia to New York for three days of exposition, trade show, conferences and concerts.

Maxi Priest, Shaggy, Beres Hammond and UB40 performed in the Biolife Sounds of Reggae concert at the Barclays Center to celebrate the 50th year of Jamaican independence. Brooklyn is home to one of the largest populations of Jamaicans in the world.

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson curated Shuffle Culture at BAM on 19 and 20 April 2012, bringing together musicians ranging from classical to hiphop.

Thirty bands in 30 locations throughout Central Park played a single autumn-themed set list at the first annual Jazz & Colors festival. Starting with Monk's Straight no Chaser and ending with Empire State of Mind, each band was free to interpret the list.

Arlo Guthrie brought family members together for a well-attended concert of his songs and his father Woody's at Summerstage in New York's Central Park. Woody, best known for "This Land is Your Land", would have been 100 on 14 July.

A group of French-Canadians gather in a Burlington, Connecticut restaurant to play traditional Quebecois music.

Music and musicians in performance at the Lowell Folk Festival, 25 July 2009

Violist Burchard Tang and cellist Priscilla Lee, participants in the 2008 Kingston Chamber Music Festival, participate in an outreach program in area elementary schools.

Archlutinist Peter Nightingale of Kingston, Rhode Island. The archlute was made by luthier Joel van Lennep. Nightingale sometimes performs as Marteyn van Ockeghem.

Eddie Palmieri and his band played a program of salsa at Celebrate Brooklyn! Banda Magda opened the evening.

The Tiger Lillies headlined Celebrate Brooklyn! on 18 July 2013 with their song cycle "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," based on Coleridge's poem. Cynthia Hopkins opened the evening.

The Museum of the City of New York held a concert on June 20, 2013 to benefit a forthcoming exhibit titled "Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival. Participants included Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Oscar Brand, Happy Traum and others directly involved in the revival of the 19560s and 60s, along with folk artists and singer-songwriters who came later, like Josh White, Jr., Lucy Kaplansky, John Wesley Harding, and Langhorne Slim.

The Fifth Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival at the Bell House, April 2013.

Trampled by Turtles headlined Celebrate Brooklyn! on 26 July 2013. River City Extension opened, and were followed by The Devil Makes Three.

Samuel Beckett's radio play "All That Fall" was staged at BAM in December 2012. Directed by Gavin Quinn of Dublin's Pan Pan Theatre Company, the set and lighting design are by Aedin Cosgrove. The audience, seated in rocking chairs with anti-tip attachments, as befitting the themes of death and aging, was mostly in the dark, and no actors were visible.

Ernst Lubitsch's 1922 film classic (originally Das Weib des Pharao) in a complete restoration, with score by Joseph C. Phillips Jr, at BAMcinématek's Harvey Theater.

Dread Scott Decision, a participatory performance that looks at "the contradiction of a country that was ostensibly founded on democracy but that also has slavery woven into its founding document," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Fishman Space.

23 Skidoo is a flashmob dance project by choreographer Shandoah Goldman to commemorate the 110th anniversary of New York's Flatiron building.

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male dance troupe that pokes fun at the conventions of ballet, performed on 27 June 2013 as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn festival in Prospect Park.

Birth of a Hip-Hop Nation, performed at BAM, 8 May 2014.

Pablo Helguera's performance piece "Parable Conference," part of the 2014 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Ted Hearne's oratorio "The Source", based on the WikiLeaks by Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning.

Art Spiegelman's Wordless, with words and pictures by Art Spiegelman, and music by Phillip Johnston. Performed at BAM 18 January 2014.

Thaddeus Phillips (creator/designer/performer) in the New York premiere of 17 Border Crossings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Fishman Space in the Fisher Theater. Tatiana Mallarino director; Patrick Kealey, dramaturg; Spencer Sheridan, Production Manager; Robert Klapowitz, sound design; Alessandra Calabi, production stage manager; David Todaro, lighting engineer.

Dress rehearsal for Darcy James Argue's "Real Enemies" at BAM's Harvey Theater on 18 November 2015. Music by Darcy James Argue, written and directed by Isaac Butler, film design by Peter Negrini, scenic and lighting design by Maruti Evans, costume design by Sydney Maresca, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAM Harvey Theater. Performed by Darcy James Argue's Secret Society.

Esperanza Spalding performing songs from her new series "Emily's D Evolution" at the Prospect Park Bandshell. José James opened.

The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival summer concert series featured a post-Bastille Day bill of the Louisiana bilingual band Sweet Crude and French songwriter and stylist Ben L'Oncle Soul.

Andrew Bird and Esperanza Spalding at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Fetitval at the Prospect Park Bandshell on 28 July 2017.

Dress rehearsal of the New York premiere of "Suddenly", based on stories by Etgar Keret, directed by Zvi Sahar, produced by the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv.

em Cohen's film with live music was performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from 26-28 September 2013. These images were taken for BAM at a rehearsal on 26 September.

Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones at the Prospect Park Bandshell for another in the summer BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival.

Brooklyn-based Lake Street Dive opened the 2017 season of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell to a venue packed with hometown fans.

Strange Window: The Turn of the Screw, at BAM Harvey Theater, produced by The Builders Association, based on the novella by Henry James. Directed by Marianne Weems; written by James Gibbs; created by Moe Angelos, James Gibbs, Marianne Weems, and the Company; sound design and original music composition by Dan Dobson; video design by Austin Switser; lighting by Jennifer Tipton; scenic design by Neal Wilkinson; costume design by Andrea Mincic.

Brooklyn, NY - 7 May 2021. The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) started a series of its first live concerts since the COVID pandemic lockdown in conjunction with the Silk Road Project at several sites in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The 10-minute 1-to-1 concerts feature a single performer playing for a single audience member.

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention backstage and in performance at the Durfee Theater, Fall River, Massachusetts, in February 1968 For licensing of any of the images in this portfolio go to https://www.mptvimages.com/ For fine art prints, get in touch with me directly.

Brooklyn, NY - 1 December 2022. Dress rehearsal of LOVETRAIN2020, with choreography and lighting by Emanuel Gat, Music by Tears For Fears, Costume Design: Thomas Bradley, Costume Construction by Thomas Bradley and Wim Muyllaert, Technical direction and light supervision by Guillaume Février, Sound by Frédéric Duru, Wardrobe by Marie-Pierre Callies. Performed by Eglantine Bart, Thomas Bradley, Robert Bridger, Gilad Jerusalmy, Péter Juhász, Michael Loehr, Emma Mouton, Eddie Oroyan, Rindra Rasoaveloson, Ichiro Sugae, Karolina Szymura, Sara Wilhelmsson, Jin Young Won, Ashley Wright. Produced by Emanuel Gat Dance: Marjorie Carré and Mélanie Bichot.