Like many of us, Danny Strong watched a concert version of the musical Chess, and wasn’t entirely sure what was happening. But rather than giving up on the complicated plot and letting the rock score ...
On the digital marquee of Broadway’s Imperial Theater, the stars of the new reimagining of the 1984 musical Chess — about rival American and Soviet chess wizards and the woman caught between them — ...
The received wisdom is that the book has always been the problem with Chess, if only—as so many have attempted—the book could be fixed… But, as the much-anticipated revival of Sir Tim Rice and Abba’s ...
Jordan Harrison’s quietly devastating play proves far more affecting than the musical revival of the long-troubled Chess.