Captain Nemo's Adventure Academy: 20,000 Laughs Under the Sea
2023-10-01 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Waterfront Museum, 290 Conover Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11231, United States
Dive into this madcap homage to Jules Verne’s’ famous maritime hero!
Captain Nemo himself will entertain, inspire, and challenge your little guppies’ brains while quenching their thirst for knowledge of the Wonders of the Deep.
TICKETS HERE
$5-$20 Sliding Scale
The cantankerous and ever-curious Captain Nemo lives to excite kids about our watery-blue planet with tales of the Giant Squid, the elusive Angler fish and even how whale poop is part of the Cycle of Life!
This engaging theatrical experience features beautiful sound effects, hilarious slapstick hijinks, magic, bubble-play and full-audience participation.
Created and performed by David Engel, alias Billy Bones the Good Pirate, who tours his shows to arts centers, festivals, schools and museums nationwide and internationally.
More here.

Arthur Miller's The Hook
2023-06-25 20:00 - 23:00 | Waterfront Museum, 290 Conover Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11231, United States
Fridays – Sunday June 9-11, 16-18 & 23-25 at 8pm.
Brooklyn’s Brave New World Repertory Theatre (BNW) will present a full production of The Hook, adapted by Brooklyn-based writer Ron Hutchinson from Arthur Miller’s unproduced screenplay and directed by Claire Beckman aboard The Waterfront Museum’s floating stage moored in Red Hook. The performances will run three weekends on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 8pm from June 9-25. Based on the true story of martyred longshoreman Pete Panto, who stood up to a racketeering union, rigged elections and corruption on the Red Hook docks in the 1950’s.
Claire Beckman co-founder/producing artistic director of BNW says “The Hook captures the life and death struggle on the docks where the ever-present danger to the workers and their families was both from the job itself and the mobsters who controlled the docks.”
Beckman credits David Sharps, director and captain of The Waterfront Museum “for bringing Miller’s story to the US. “David introduced the UK team to me and Brave New World Rep. We are thrilled to be partnering with Captain Dave again, as we continue our dramatic explorations of the waterfront.”
The Hook of the title is Red Hook, Brooklyn. It is also the classic tool of a longshoreman; an extension of his arm, a claw for gripping heavy crates and sacks of goods – or for use in a fight. The play gives a closer look at the tightly-knit working class community doing the dangerous work of loading and unloading the ships. Back-breaking work which made New York the world’s richest and most important harbor.Both BNW and Beckman have a history with Arthur Miller, arguably Brooklyn’s greatest 20th century playwright. BNW has previously produced acclaimed productions of two other Miller classics: The Crucible in 2010 and The American Clock in 2011, in addition to A View from the Bridge in 2018 & 2019.
The screenplay of The Hook, arguably the template for On the Waterfront, lay untouched for almost seventy years until British designer Patrick Connellan unearthed the original material, including Miller’s handwritten notes. A stage version was produced at the UK’s Northhampton Theatre Royal in 2015. It was inspried by the true story of Pete Panto, a young dockworker who stood up to the corrupt Mafia-connected union leadership. Panto was kidnapped on a local street, murdered by The Mob and his body dumped in New Jersey. The movie was never made. When studio heads demanded the systemic corruption on the docks be attributed to Communism instead of The Mob, Miller pulled the plug, uninterested in writing “red scard” propaganda. He wrote A View from the Bridge instead.

Swamp in the City: Cajun Music Night
2023-05-19 20:00 - 23:00
Add Your Heading Text Here
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.

Get Tickets

Previous image
Next image

The Pierson Family Follies
2023-01-11 - 2023-03-13 | Waterfront Museum, 290 Conover Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11231, United States
A evening of family fun. Beth, Doug and Emma, et all combine their music, skills, humor and wit in a fun showboat evening for all ages.
The Pierson Family Follies will appear on the Lehigh Valley No. 79 Showboat on Saturday, October 14th at 7pm. Sliding scale $5-$20.
Tickets here or pay at the door.
Featuring Slackjaw – Rob Meador and Doug Pierson have been astonishing audiences worldwide for generations with their music. On October 14 they will play original creations, and they’ll recreate some of your favorite bluegrass tunes to boot.
Beth (Pierson) Leonard and Sarah Pope who will make appearances as SarahBesque and Bethford, attempting to support the show with comical physical theater interludes that highlight their ridiculous virtuosities
Emma Pierson is a singer/songwriter from Brooklyn, New York. While she’s been singing and writing forever, she began performing locally with her band, Emmerson and her Clammy Hands at the end of 2017. With folk, pop, and rock’n’roll influences, her music is sweet, melodic and lyrical with a dark edge and a sense of humor.
