‘Chess’ Review: Lea Michele Reigns as Queen of This Uneven Broadway Revival

How do you solve a problem like “Chess”? With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim Rice, ...

‘Chess’ Theater Review: Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher Headline Conflicted Broadway Revival of Cold War Concept Musical

With music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the 1988 show revolves around rival American and Soviet chess wizards ...

Lea Michele makes a rapturous return to Broadway in 'Chess' – Review

Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher are extraordinary in "Chess," an ABBA Cold War musical that's as messy and ...

‘Chess,’ Theater’s Most Notorious Strange Beast, Finally Returns

The received wisdom is that the book has always been the problem with Chess, if only—as so many have attempted—the book could ...

‘Chess’ Broadway Review: It’s the Other ABBA Musical, the One That Never Works

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 Stars of ‘Chess’ Know the Score

Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher took a break from navigating their onstage rivalries to engage in some ...

BROADWAY REVIEW: Guilty pleasure ‘Chess’ with Michele, Tveit, Christopher doesn’t miss

Chess,’ starring Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, is the Broadway show of the fall that some will claim to dislike, yet most everyone will enjoy, even if that has to ...