“Pirate School: Sea Dreams” is a hilarious family show that inspires kids and their caregivers to live out their dreams of swashbuckling adventure and quench their thirst to join the briny buccaneers of yore. 
 
Performed live by veteran New York actor David Engel, “Pirate School” will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 14 in the Coolidge Theatre at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro.
 
From Engel who plays the bumbling pirate professor, Billy Bones, children learn the finer points of light-hearted mischief through zany lessons on how to stand, talk, sing and laugh like sea dogs.
 
During “Pirate School: Sea Dreams” cannons boom, skulls talk, cutlasses drop, critters cavort and everyone, young and old, participates in a grandiose sea battle for their final exam.
 
Features of a Pirate School experience are its signature immersive and boisterous audience participation, antic bubble-play, adept magic, eccentric props, the appearance of the World’s only wearable pirate ship and a rich score of music and cartoon-like sound effects created by Richard Spooner, the sound designer of TV’s ‘Bob The Builder’ and ‘Chuggington.’
 
Run time is 60 minutes without an intermission. Children are encouraged to wear pirate costumes.
 
Mr. Engel is an actor with years of stage and screen experience, from performing major roles in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” “Macbeth,” “Titus Andronicus,” etc. to appearing in film and on television. 
 
For thirteen years, he worked as a clown doctor bringing stress-reducing humor to pediatric hospitals with the Big Apple Circus’ world-renowned in-hospital Clown Care Program. Mr. Engel continues to offer outreach at pediatric hospitals and sensory sensitive shows.
 
Tickets are free for youngsters ages 2 and under; $10 for children ages 3 to 12 and $15 for those 13 and older, including adults. For tickets or more information call 570-724-6220 or visit deanecenter.com.