Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Bryce Pinkham chats about guiding the audience through CHESS, marrying into Scarlett Strallen's dancing family and more with Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:02PMBryce Pinkham has been living with Chess for nearly a decade. “I’ve been working on it with [writer] Danny Strong and [director] Michael Mayer since the Kennedy Center,” he says. “It…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMSurvival Jobs is back with Episode 147, hosted by Jason A. Coombs and Samantha Tuozzolo, featuring two time Emmy Award winner Danny Strong in an in depth conversation centered on his latest …
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During the first night of The Voice Season 28 finale, finalist Aiden Ross took the stage to perform a rendition of "The Winner Takes It All." The ABBA song is known to Broadway audiences for…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMThe Broadway Theatre Review: Chess By Ross It’s East meets West, back in the day when those words held different meanings than today, but the game is still being played loud and true in Br…
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The recent revival of “Chess “on Broadway comes nearly forty years after its first opening on London’s West End in 1986, with a subsequent move to Broadway after major revisions, in 19…
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Last week, Chess stars Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher joined TODAY's Citi Concert Series, treating Studio 1A to several performances from the ongoing revival of the music…
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The cult favorite musical continues a high-grossing run at the Imperial Theatre.
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On Thursday, Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher joined TODAY with Jenna & Friends to chat about the revival of Chess, now running Broadway's Imperial Theatre.
The trio sp…
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Lea Michele’s star turn in “Chess.” Kara Young as an 8-year-old. A 12-minute monologue delivered from a cloud. These are our favorite scenes from this year.
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Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, revitalized by the recent casting of the film franchise’s Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy, once again topped the box office roster with a magical…
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The former Glee star is leading the revival of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus's musical at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMHappy holidays friends, readers and theater lovers! No matter how you celebrate, we wish you and yours the very best of the season and the new year!
Are you still on the hunt for the perf…
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In a recent Instagram post, Lea Michele shared a list of dates when she will not be appearing in CHESS on Broadway, warning fans looking forward to seeing her with advance notice.
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In our final major theatre trip of 2025, my stagey fia…
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Kristin Chenoweth, Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and more enter the Tony Awards race.
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Hannah Cruz plays Svetlana in Chess on Broadway. For six weeks, her Broadway.com vlog has brought fans backstage at the Imperial Theatre. In the sixth and final episode, it's Thanksgiving we…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMIn 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…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:42PMThursday, December 4, 2025
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 M…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:12PMIt 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 s…
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One of this season's most anticipated shows has recent…
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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…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:46PMFriday, November 28, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMIn 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…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:42AMThursday, November 27, 2025
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: Michae…
SOURCE: TotalTheater at 07:54PMHappy Thanksgiving!
It’s been a crazy month. An avalanche of shows have been opening both on and off Broadway. I’ve seen 20 of them over the past four weeks—some good, some just OK, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:31PMReturning musicals take another shot at success – with very different outcomes.
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Chess stars Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher
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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…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:36PMThe 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 M…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:36PMTheaterMania Editor-in-Chief David Gordon discusses the new revival of Chess, starring Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher.
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:31PMThe 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…
SOURCE: The Contending at 10:44AMSunday, November 23, 2025
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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:29PMClick 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…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:30PM“Chess” is not a serious musical. That’s the key to appreciating this show, which is supposed to be about an American and a Russian grandmaster battling over both the game of chess …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PMStrong’s book belies his name, its overlong (two hours, 40 minute) narrative, with all its scheming realpolitik, being more formulaic than authentic. Its points about the individual vs. th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:23PMPeter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Jan Simpson talk about Chess, Little Bear Ridge Road, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee @ New World Stages, Two Strangers (Car…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PMLea Michele spoke with CBS Sunday Morning in a new interview, which you can watch here!
Currently starring in Chess on Broadway, Michele is known for playing Rachel Berry in GLEE, along with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMSaturday, November 22, 2025
Chess – 20 November 2025 The music from Chess has been a large part of this theatre-lover’s life for a long time, and, since moving to New York, I have been openly hoping for a Broadway …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 03:44PMFriday, November 21, 2025
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.
For the fourth episode, C…
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