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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lea Michele will end her run in Broadway’s “Chess” this summer. The “Glee” star will leave the production on June 21, 2026.

"I'm sure she is disappointed as everyone is for her," said one empathetic source.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why would someone take on the mammoth task of bringing back Chess to Broadway? Allow Emmy-winning scribe Danny Strong to explain. ...

In those intervening decades, the score of “Chess,” written by the ABBA songwriting duo of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and featuring tunes “I Know Him So Well,” “Nobody’s Side,” “Anthem” and the ...

Aaron Tveit is giving Broadway fans another major taste of Chess before the full cast album arrives. PEOPLE can exclusively debut Tveit’s recording of “Pity the Child,” the latest single from the ...

Outstanding Actor - Musical: David Carroll was nominated but did not win. Outstanding Actress - Musical: Judy Kuhn was nominated but did not win. Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical: Harry Goz was ...

The Broadway revival of Chess — the show that finally cracked the code on one of musical theater’s most notoriously troubled books — is getting a major casting shake-up. JoJo, born Joanna Levesque, ...

Broadway actor Nicholas Christopher, one of the stars of the new revival of "Chess," is photographed at So & So's in Manhattan. (Justin Jun Lee / For The Times) A new Broadway star emerges each season ...

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 ...