The Tony Awards Administration Committee met Thursday to rule on eligibility for five Broadway productions, confirming where ...
The long-awaited Broadway revival of Chess opened on Sunday, Nov. 16 at the Imperial Theatre in New York City, marking the first full-scale return of the cult-favorite musical in nearly four decades.
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the second time to confirm the eligibility status of five Broadway productions for the 2025-2026 season.
Playwright-director Robert Ickes’ remarkable, modern-dress adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus is significantly different from that ancient version (no Rex in the title, for starters) that Ickes ...
In this edition of Words From the Wings, we catch up with Regine Sophia who is in the Ensemble of Chess Broadway. Below, she ...
Lea Michele is giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at her latest Broadway run. Michele, 39, currently stars as Florence in the 2025 Broadway revival of "Chess," which features music from Abba's Benny ...
Over the years, "Chess" has acquired this reputation as a musical with a great score, by Tim Rice and ABBA's Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, that has been cursed by Rice's problematic book. For the ...
In those intervening decades, the score of “Chess,” written by the ABBA songwriting duo of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and featuring tunes “I Know Him So Well,” “Nobody’s Side,” “Anthem” and the ...
When chess master Johannes Zukertort described the game as "a struggle against error," he may as well have been talking about this musical. Chess is a show constantly at war with its past, and 37 ...
How do you solve a problem like “Chess”? With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim Rice, and now with a new version of Rice’s book by Danny Strong, “Chess” tells of ...