Entertainment & Experiences in Brooklyn, NY

Bowling + live music + Blue Ribbon fried chicken. Family Bowl on weekends is free entry.

Brooklyn's Bowery Ballroom. 650 capacity. Good sound, two bars, balcony.

The original dine-in cinema. Cocktails and food at your seat. Williamsburg location.

100+ vendors on the Williamsburg waterfront. Free entry. Manhattan skyline as backdrop.

1,800 capacity. No bad sightline. The Bowery Presents books it. Williamsburg.

Improv classes and shows in Williamsburg. The comedy school Brooklyn was missing.

Record store with a 250-capacity venue in the back. Free in-store performances.

DIY comedy in Williamsburg. $5-10. The kind of room where future headliners get reps.

170-seat new music venue. Classical, electronic, experimental. Acoustically perfect.

Oldest performing arts center in America. Student rush $25. Next Wave Festival is the big draw.

Free concerts, free gallery, free film screenings. Also runs Celebrate Brooklyn! in Prospect Park.

Free under 19. First Saturdays: free admission 5-11pm with DJs and gallery talks.

Free museum night with DJs, gallery talks, and a cash bar. Arrive early -- big crowds.

Strict no-talking, no-texting. They actually enforce it. House of Wax bar downstairs.

In a decommissioned 1936 subway station. Vintage subway cars you can sit in. $10.

1920s warehouse. Comedy, podcast tapings, live music, themed dance parties. $10-30.

Baroque burlesque. Acrobatics, opera, cocktails. Unlike anything else in NYC.

Brunch screenings on weekends. Midnight movies. Bigger than the Williamsburg location.

Free outdoor concerts all summer. Major acts. Prospect Park Bandshell.

Open a fake washing machine door. Pinball bar behind it. Only licensed laundromat bar in NYC.

Free museum in a Civil War-era building. Bus tours of the active Navy Yard also available.

No drink minimum. Table service. Touring headliners and local favorites. Brooklyn's busiest comedy room.

Folk, bluegrass, old-time, sea shanties. 70 seats. Also teaches banjo.

Free art exhibitions, concerts, science talks in a 25,000 sq ft iron works building.

80,000 sq ft. Indoor and outdoor stages. Brooklyn's biggest electronic music complex.