THE combination of ABBA songs, chess, and the Cold War in a musical feels like it shouldn't work. But the cast of Chess The Musical at Norbury Theatre in Droitwich proves that wrong. Set during the ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the digital marquee of Broadway’s Imperial Theater, the stars of the new reimagining of the 1984 musical Chess — about rival American and Soviet chess wizards and the woman caught between them — ...

Chess matches can be agonizingly long, lasting for numerous hours at the professional level. So maybe it’s perversely apt that the Broadway revival of the musical “Chess” should feel eye-glazingly ...

Regardless of the version, there is a compelling human drama at the center of “Chess,” floating atop some killer songs and an often gorgeous score. In its sweeping musical moments (“Nobody’s Side,” ...

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NEW YORK — If you step on glass in Midtown Manhattan, consider that the stars of “Chess” may have shattered any in earshot of the Imperial Theatre. As sung by Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas ...