Dick Zigun

'Killin' Republicans' is a new rock opera by Dick D. Zigun, presented by Theater for the New City. Join the conversation as actress Jodie Foster, a Nigerian Afrobeat star, and her Mississippi oilman husband get drunk on a transatlantic flight. Running from November 30 to December 17 at Theater for the New City. Tickets are available at the box office.

Join in for The 39th Annual Mermaid Parade on Sunday, September 12, 2021! The parade kicks off at 1pm (rain or shine) on West 21st and Surf Avenue and proceeds on Surf Avenue to West 10th, then heads south to the Boardwalk and then west back to its ending point at Steeplechase Plaza on the Boardwalk.

Coney Island USA has announced its Spring 2021 fundraiser, in partnership with musician Jesse Malin and his East Village club The Bowery Electric.

Coney Island USA (CIUSA), the not-for-profit arts organization that for the past 37 years has presented the Mermaid Parade, today revealed more details about the 2020 event. The Parade, to be held on August 29th at 1:30pm, has morphed into a Tail-a-Thon.

Coney Island USA, the not-for-profit arts organization that for the past 37 years has presented the Mermaid Parade, will finally reveal their eagerly anticipated plans for the 2020 Parade.

Dick D. Zigun, Artistic Director of Coney Island USA and Funhouse Philosophers, announces his latest production, Bloody Brains in a Juke Box, which will be presented Fridays thru Sundays, March 6-29, with an opening night scheduled for March 14.

Funhouse Philosophers, the resident experimental theater company at Coney Island USA announces its most ambitious project yet...

Dick D. Zigun, Artistic Director of Coney Island USA and Funhouse Philosophers, announces that Bloody Brains in a Juke Box, previously slated to begin performances on November 8, has been rescheduled for Spring, 2020 in order to allow for a special casting drive to discover celebrity look-alike actors to portray characters resembling Sidney Poitier, Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Coogan and Jayne Mansfield. Special auditions for these parts will be held at Coney Island USA at 1208 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn on Sunday, October 27 from 1 to 5pm. The new performance dates for the production will be Fridays thru Sundays, March 6-29, with an opening night scheduled for March 14.

Sarah Houbolt celebrates the beauty of difference in her Green Room Award winning one woman show, Koo Koo the Bird Girl at Coney Island USA's Sideshows by the Seashore for one night only on Wednesday August 14th.

Join us for The 37th Annual Mermaid Parade, Saturday June 22nd, 2019! The parade kicks off at 1pm on West 21st and Surf Avenue and proceeds on Surf Avenue to West 10th, then heads south to the Boardwalk and then west back to its ending point at Steeplechase Plaza on the Boardwalk.

Music Of Curiosities proudly presents: MISS CHERRY DELIGHT'S release of her debut album 'EAT THE EVIDENCE', live on stage for the first time ever! An evening of Cherry's brand new original rock n' roll/grunge/goth industrial tunes never heard before! Be the very first audience to get a taste of red juicy seduction in music form, unapologetic, unhinged and uncensored.

The Coney Island Ritual Cabaret Festival marks International Culture Lab's (ICL) 4th consecutive year probing the fantastical partnership of ritual and entertainment on Coney Island USA's (CIUSA) Sideshows by the Seashore stage. This year again ICL has assembled an array of performance artists, musicians, magicians, puppeteers, sideshow performers and dancers, all of whom have been tasked with presenting original works that define ritual cabaret through the lens of their own particular aesthetic, discipline and lineage.

The Coney Island Ritual Cabaret Festival marks International Culture Lab's (ICL) 4th consecutive year probing the fantastical partnership of ritual and entertainment on Coney Island USA's (CIUSA) Sideshows by the Seashore stage. This year again ICL has assembled an array of performance artists, musicians, magicians, puppeteers, sideshow performers and dancers, all of whom have been tasked with presenting original works that define ritual cabaret through the lens of their own particular aesthetic, discipline and lineage.

Coney Island USA Presents: Sideshow School at Sideshows by the Seashore!

World Famous Landmark Attraction, SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE, which first opened in Coney Island in 1985, is about to reach a milestone as one of the longest running shows in NYC Theatrical History mid-August, when it is on track to sell the one millionth ticket to the hit show, which first opened 34 years ago. Few shows such as The Fantasticks or Phantom of The Opera have equaled this feat. In the particular field of Circus Sideshows, The Coney Island Circus Sideshow is now the longest running such show ever.

Join us for The 36th Annual Mermaid Parade, Saturday June 16th, 2018! The parade kicks off at 1pm on West 21st and Surf Avenue and proceeds on Surf Avenue to West 10th, then heads south to the Boardwalk and then west back to its ending point at Steeplechase Plaza on the Boardwalk.

Coney Island USA will present our Fall Benefit Gala today evening, November 11, 2017. Coney Island's oldest landmarked building (our headquarters), is celebrating its 100th birthday this year, and we'll be marking the occasion in high style with a Gala that will be a night to remember.

Coney Island USA will present our Fall Benefit Gala on Saturday evening, November 11, 2017. Coney Island's oldest landmarked building (our headquarters), is celebrating its 100th birthday this year, and we'll be marking the occasion in high style with a Gala that will be a night to remember.

If you happened to be on the subway this month and smelled something particularly fishy (not the usually kind of subway fishy) you may have been in the same car as a mermaid. Saturday, June 17th, 2017 marked the 35th Annual Mermaid Parade on Coney Island. That's right. One day a year, all the mermaids of Coney Island are magically granted feet and march down Surf Ave and the Boardwalk until they grow their fins back and return to their watery homes… Okay maybe not quite mermaids, but close! Thousands of artists, and mermaid enthusiasts march in the parade every year. Over 3,000 Seashell clad individuals strolled, danced, and rolled down Surf Ave this year. It began pouring rain before the parade and several times during. Luckily, it is the Mermaid Parade, so a little water wasn't a problem for the marchers.