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Luke Walsh will also star in the Benny Andersson-Björn Ulvaeus musical in Osaka and Tokyo.
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Ramin Karimloo, Samantha Barks, Luke Walsh, and Takanori Sato will lead a production of Chess at Osaka's Umeda Arts Theater this month! Directed by Nick Winston, the production will run on J…
Chess the Musical is a cult favorite that receives a powerful concert staging by 11th Hour. Two grandmasters battle over politics and love during the Cold War. Mike Rugnetta reviews.
The precision and sense of drama makes you almost forget this is a concert and not a fully staged production.
"We ask too much of attention and not enough of concentration. The recent cultural emphasis on attention risks subsuming too many variables of human experience, as if they could ever be held…
Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost"and by any means necessary. In the 1970s, both the United States and the Soviet Union used sport, as we…
Hampstead theatre, LondonBoris Spassky and Bobby Fischer's 1972 match is a proxy war in this intriguing but overcomplicated chess drama
There has already been a musical, Chess, inspired by t…
The Cold War 'Match of the Century' fails to translate into compelling drama
We've had Chess the musical; now, here's Chess the play. Tom Morton-Smith, who has form wrestling recent history …
The playwright talks about 1972's bad-tempered Spassky-Fischer contest and turning it into a cold war thriller
Nick Winston will direct and choreograph the production.
BroadwayWorld has just learned that Ramin Karimloo (Anastasia, Les Miserables), Samantha Barks (Pretty Woman), Luke Walsh, and Takanori Sato will lead a production of Chess at Osaka's Umeda …
Eve Babitz: "I took the smock off, letting it fall beside me, but Julian kicked it far across the slippery floor, out of the way in a corner. I sat down quickly at the chess set and wondered…
Chess played the Imperial Theatre - Spring 1988
The last article in this series (about Rags) got me to thinking about another musical that starred Judy Kuhn. I guess you could say Chess didn…
Well, the next step in my declutteringdigitizing journey is throwing out my Chess CDs, not that they take up much space. I only have the Original Concept Recording and the Broadway cast. I'm…
Television audiences in the UK were lucky to hear the iconic Kristin Chenoweth and legendary Elaine Paige sing a duet together.
The history of “Chess the Musical” is nearly as fascinating as its subject matter of tensions during the Cold War. The West End (London) production opened in 1986 after first bei…
Chess, the complicated Cold War tale with music by Abba alumni Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus and lyrics by the unstoppable Tim Rice, bursts on to the stage at 2nd Star Productions under …
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This week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth remembers Audra McDonald and Will Swenson’s wedding, plus how Sutton Foster and Julia Murney came to star in the 2003 Chess concert.
Imprisoned in solitary confinement by Nazis, a stolen book of chess games becomes the Prisoner's only way to cling to sanity. Fighting
"Chess" is a musical notorious for its many varied adaptations and revivals, including a recent West End revival; the Tidewater Players' production, directed by Mark Briner, was the Maryland…
Mark Briner is currently directing “Chess” at the Tidewater Players, now playing through September 16, 2018 at The Historic Havre de Grace Opera House. Mark is a graduate of T…
Australian musical theatre actress Sarah Backer has spent the last few years living and working in London. Originally from Brisbane, Sarah appeared a number of production including Chicag…
