An adaptation of Miller’s 1950 screenplay about a Red Hook longshoreman’s killing gets its first American staging aboard the Waterfront Museum. “The Hook” was inspired by the story of Pete Panto, pictured in the projection, a Red Hook longshoreman who ran afoul of corrupt union bosses in the early 20th century.Credit...Gabby Jones for The New York Times June 9, 2023, 3:16 p.m. ET On a barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn, dockworkers chant against their corrupt union boss.