JoJo has been left devastated after Broadway musical Chess announced its closure just hours before she was due to begin rehearsals. The 35-year-old singer - whose real name is Joanna Levesque - was ...

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 revival has been a major success on Broadway, and is likely to score major nominations for the upcoming 2026 Tony Awards The musical's score, created by ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus ...

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 ...

The show, which also stars Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, had been expected to sell tickets through at least September 13 with singer-songwriter Joanna "JoJo" Levesque having been announced as ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Katerina Papacostas. Photo Credit: Candace Ghai. Katerina Papacostas chatted about starring in the musical “Chess” on Broadway, where she is a part of the ensemble and she understudies Lea Michele, ...

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,” ...