A new musical powered by the music of four-time Grammy Award winners and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo drops Romeo and Juliet into a sweaty, neon-lit underground—reimagining the iconic love story as a high-voltage collision of love, rivalry, and identity that feels dangerous, immediate, and alive. Featuring an electrifying catalog of rock anthems including “Love Is a Battlefield,” “We Belong,” “Shadows of the Night,” “Promises in the Dark,” “Heartbreaker,” “Invincible,” and “We Live for Love,” alongside new original songs written for the production by Benatar and Giraldo, the show fuses Shakespeare’s timeless romance with a pulse-driving theatrical experience where desire takes over, loyalties fracture, and love is a contact sport. The Carl and Marilynn Thoma Upstairs Studio transforms into an immersive space that is part dance floor, part theatrical playground.

Married collaborators for over four decades, Benatar and Giraldo have defined a generation of music with multiple multi-platinum albums, 19 Top 40 hits, and more than 40 million records sold worldwide. Bradley Bredeweg, best known for creating the critically acclaimed Television Academy Award-winning drama The Fosters, writes the book and directs.