Romeo and Bernadette

A lovely send-off immortalizing our show and its 2nd NYC run! Thank you for this gorgeous tribute to ROMEO & BERNADETTE! ❤️

ROMEO & BERNADETTE played its final performance yesterday afternoon. Thank you to everyone who came to support our show. The outpouring of joy, love and laughter these past 8 weeks has touched all of our hearts. Even though our run has come to an end, nothing will break the bonds of our famiglia

ROMEO & BERNADETTE Plays Final Performance Off-Broadway Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn, with book and lyrics by Mark Saltzman, music adapted from classic Italian melodies, directed and choreographed by Justin Ross Cohen announced today the unexpected closing of the show due to a COVID outbreak within the company.

Lots of on the Romeo & Bernadette stage! We have many members on our team, cast and crew who identify with the full spectrum of the LGBTQA+ Community. One member of our team is raising money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Please consider making a donation to https://donate.broadwaycares.org/fundraiser/3898122

We are PROUD that we get to perform in a city where millions gather for LGBTQIA+ , to protest injustice and discrimination and fight for everyone’s right to equality and love. As the bard famously said: “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. O no! It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.”

Forget Juliet! Anna Kostakis plays "Bernadette", the feisty, foul-mouthed daughter of mob boss, Sal Penza. But deep down, all she wants is everlasting love. Little does she know that her Romeo out there, is THE Romeo.

"Our show has the love, the kindness, the humor and the power to make people forget about their worries and feel better inside their hearts and their minds." - Nikita Burshteyn

Great interview with BroadwayWorld and our cast member, Nikita Burshteyn, on originating the iconic role, "Romeo" in his Off-Broadway debut! !

Interview: ROMEO & BERNADETTE's Nikita Burshteyn on Originating the Role of Romeo and More! Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn is now running off-Broadway. We chatted with Nikita Burshteyn about his experience originating the role of Romeo, his favorite memories working on the show, and much more!

Actor, vocalist and writer, John Epperson (Lypsinka), illustrator and caricaturist, Ken Fallin with the cast and creatives of

We're extending! Due to popular demand we are now running performances through July 31st. "Joy, gentle friends Joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts!"

Home | Romeo & Bernadette – A New Musical, 555 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, USA The new off-Broadway musical comedy, Romeo & Bernadette – A Musical Tale of Verona & Brooklyn, at Theater 555, 555 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036 USA.

"Now begin! And! O-o-o-one, two, tcha-
tcha-TCHA! Three, four, tcha-tcha-
TCHA! O-o-one two... I said TCHA!!

Now, practice! THOSE! STEPS!"—Viola Violavich, the shotgun-wielding do******ix dance teacher who studied the Graham technique and teaches Cha-cha

Seven-time Emmy Winner, Mark Saltzman, talks with TheaterMania on writing ROMEO & BERNADETTE and its journey to Off-Broadway

Interview: Mark Saltzman on Creating Romeo and Bernadette and the Holiday Classic Mrs. Santa Claus | TheaterMania Seven-time Emmy-winner Saltzman tells us about his off-Broadway musical at Theatre 555.

Not for nuttin', but we only got 12 more shows before our two lovebirds, Romeo and Bernadette, bid us adieu. Must close June 26th! Get your tickets today and visit www.romeoandbernadette.com

Actress, Writer, Producer and Director, Renée Taylor ( The Nanny TV SHOW, "Lovers and Other Strangers") with the cast of ROMEO AND BERNADETTE at yesterday's performance!

On Wednesdays, we wear pink

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Check out this great interview with New York Shakespeare, featuring our Director/Choreographer Justin Ross Cohen and Bookwriter/Lyricist Mark Saltzman! It can now be found on the New York Shakespeare YouTube channel! Learn more about the history of the show, the process of getting the show produced Off-Broadway, its evolution from 2003 to 2022, and its bonafides as a musical comedy that combines enough Shakespeare in-jokes for Shakespeare lovers, with the right amount of family friendly humor for the whole family. Special thanks to the New York Shakespeare group and its host Rodney Hakim for creating this video and making our chat possible!

New York Shakespeare Deep Dive Discussion w/ Mark Saltzman & Justin Ross Cohen of Romeo & Bernadette New York Shakespeare presents this exclusive Deep Dive discussion with the creative team from the hit Off-Broadway show, Romeo & Bernadette, which is a New Y...

We had musician, actor, writer and radio host Seth Rudetsky in the house yesterday! Seth Rudetsky hosts the show Seth Speaks on SiriusXM for which he featured members of our cast last month in a special segment for ! Only two weeks remain. Must close June 26th so get your tickets! For tickets visit www.romeoandbernadette.com

Oscar nominee and Brooklyn native Brenda Vaccaro was at the show last night! Glad we got a chance for a photo op with this screen legend! Thanks for coming!

"The folio comprises 36 plays, half of which had never before been printed. No contemporary manuscripts of Shakespeare’s texts survive and so without the First Folio it is possible that 18 works, including Macbeth, The Tempest and Twelfth Night, might have been lost to history!"

Shakespeare First Folio copy estimated to fetch $2.5m in New York auction Book printed 400 years ago is one of fewer than 20 copies in private hands

We had a visit from two very special gals last night at our loud- and-funny musical! The comedy duo Patty and Patty! It ain't all cannolis and sfogliatelle for them. Where you gonna go? What you gonna do?! Come see ROMEO & BERNADETTE before June 26th! For tickets visit www.romeoandbernadette.com

Joseph Verlezza's review of "Romeo and Bernadette" here https://www.theatrereviews.com/off-broadway-review-romeo-bernadette-a-musical-tale-of-verona-and-brooklyn-at-theater-555-through-sunday-june-26-2022/

"The five-piece orchestra delivers a big sound and is right on target matching the remarkable voices they accompany. Costume design by Joseph Shrope is period worthy and detailed. Director Justin Ross Cohen deftly directs his cast and develops emotional, larger than life characters that do not fall prey to one-dimensional stereotypes." - Joseph Verlezza, Theatre Reviews Limited

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TONIGHT New York Shakespeare program returns at 9:30pm EST, as they interview more of the standouts of the scene! ROMEO & BERNADETTE's writer Mark Saltzman and director/choreographer Justin Ross Cohen will be featured on the program! Join the conversation live, this coming Monday night on the New York Shakespeare Instagram page:
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Very excited to have ROMEO & BERNADETTE featured on New York Shakespeare interview program this coming Monday Night 6/6 at 9:30 PM EST! Join the conversation live with our director/choreographer Justin Ross Cohen and the show’s bookwriter/lyricist Mark Saltzman on the page!

“ROMEO & BERNADETTE is a musical comedy worthy of the name that delivers on all counts. Mark Saltzman’s spoofing of the old story is great fun and his lines are very clever. The score with its famous melodies transformed in new ways is a lush feast for the ears particularly as sung by this excellent cast. One only hopes that the threat of the real story of Hamlet comes as a follow-up.” - TheaterScene.net

Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona & Brooklyn - TheaterScene.net A witty and clever musical comedy worthy of the name that delivers on all counts updating the old story as a spoof for our time.