With music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the 1988 show revolves around rival American and Soviet chess wizards ...
As soon as the overture begins, this revival feels less like a Broadway production and more like City Center Encores! concert ...
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 ...
The new Broadway version starring Lea Michele makes no excuses for a musical with perhaps the most loathsome group of characters ever written.