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.

Before October of 2025, I had admittedly never heard of Chess: The Musical. I had seen much of the cast already–Aaron Tveit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve heard anything about the ’80s musical “Chess,” it’s probably this: catchy songs, nonsensical story. When I posit as much ...

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 ...

Talk about playing the long game! The cult musical “Chess” — which had only 68 regular performances on Broadway before closing in 1988 but spawned a hit soundtrack by two members of ABBA — is making a ...

In its final week on Broadway, Chess jumped up over $426,000 to hit $1.8 million. The musical, which opened in October and ...

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,” ...

AARON TVEIT is a Tony Award-winning American theatre, television, and film actor. Tveit earned the 74th Annual Tony Award for leading the cast of the world premiere production of Moulin Rouge! The ...

Broadway ticket sales held steady last week as the newish season eases into the post-Tony summer weeks, with Chess posting ...

In 2015, it all seemed to be a novel concept. That’s the year Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated Marjorie Prime premiered Off-Broadway. Certainly, artificial intelligence had been developed, ...