In the sixth and final episode of Don't Svet It, it's Thanksgiving week. Cruz, Lea Michele, director Michael Mayer and more of the Chess company share what they're thankful for. Post-Thanksg…
The first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS officially opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre last night, Sunday, November 16. Check out a video from curtain call, featuring Aaron Tveit, Lea Mic…
It was a heck of an opening gambit: In its first week on Broadway, the new revival of "Chess" earned more than $1.2 million from just four ...
It was a heck of an opening gambit: In its first week on Broadway, the new revival of "Chess" earned more than $1.2 million from just four sold-out performances. A few weeks later, the show,…
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Aaron Tveit on starring alongside Lea Michele in CHESS, Schmigadoon heading to Broadway, and his favorite ABBA song.
... Broadway show. Namely, Chess: The Musical, starring Lea Michele, and did I want to go? Yes, I said, yes, I will, yes! I knew very little about ...
The musical Chess premiered in London in 1986 and then on Broadway two years later. Despite its gorgeous score with music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim R…
Hannah Cruz plays Svetlana in Chess on Broadway. For six weeks, she's checking in with fans from backstage at the Imperial Theatre. It's going.
Hannah Cruz plays Svetlana in Chess on Broadway. For six weeks, she's checking in with fans from backstage at the Imperial Theatre. It's going to be game-changing. In the fifth episode, Cru…
In the fifth episode of Don't Svet It, Hannah Cruz takes Broadway.com behind-the scenes of a put-in rehearsal and gets real about her vocal health journey. She also graces us with ensemble m…
Broadway " Imperial Theater: 249 West 45 Street. Nov. 16, 2025-open run (as of 11/2025). Musical. Book: Danny Strong. Score: Benny Andersson, Tim Rice, and Björn Ulvaeus. Director: Michael …
So far this season, two major musicals have returned to Broadway in search of redemption. Ragtime and Chess both had rocky original runs, both ...
Returning musicals take another shot at success " with very different outcomes.
Chess stars Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher
The first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS officially opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre last night, Sunday, November 16.
What went in to making the book to Chess 'work'? The Chess revival's book writer Danny Strong shares how he began his deep dive into Chess, and what it looked like to rewrite the book that f…
The first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS officially opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre last night, Sunday, November 16. Check out a video from curtain call, featuring Aaron Tveit, Lea Mic…
TheaterMania Editor-in-Chief David Gordon discusses the new revival of Chess, starring Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher.
The musical Chess has had quite the checkered and tumultuous past. Much like Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, the show began life as a concept album, written by lyricist Tim Rice and compos…
Lea Michele revealed how her onscreen TV mom, Idina Menzel, inspired her to take on her current role in the Broadway revival of 'Chess.
After nearly four decades, cult classic musical Chess returned to Broadway last weekend, this time to a wave of mixed reviews.
The music, by ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, is the only obvious reason why, 37 years after it flopped on Broadway, "Chess" is being ...
By David Sheward November 23, 2025: The big question is does the first Broadway revival of Chess solve the cult musical's previously impossible problem of the messy book dragging down the m…
Click https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/23/chess-broadway-review/ for photos and my review. Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher star in the revival of the musical by ABBA's Be…