Chess at the Kennedy Center is a checkmate. In other words, this formerly troubled musical with a beloved score, is taking the Eisenhower Theatre stage by storm in a staged, semi-concert for…
Michael Mayer directs the semi-staged concert presentation of the operatic pop-rock musical.
It's been 30 years since the musical "Chess," noted for its engaging score and inscrutable book, survived on Broadway for a scant two months. Could a high-profile revival finally be in the o…
As tension erupts between the United States and the Soviet Union in the days of the Cold War, a world of cunning deception is quietly unfolding in another arena"this time with a different se…
Kennedy Center launches "Broadway Center Stage" concert series by enlisting Raul Esparza, Karen Olivo and other theater stars.
Who knew a game of chess could be so rock 'n roll? Or so sexy? Or set off rumblings of nuclear war? The semi-staged concert version of Chess, the 1984 rock opera playing a short run at the K…
This week’s production news includes new stage adaptations of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones. Elsewhere, casting
Two-time Olivier Award winner Michael Ball will appear as Anatoly alongside Alexandra Burke as Svetlana and Cassidy Janson as Florence in the upcoming five-week West End return of Chess. Ori…
The Company and Law & Order: SVU star returns to the musical stage for the first time in six years for the new adaptation of the cult favorite, running through February 18.
The show opens at the Coliseum this summer
Head, who scored a hit with “One Night in Bangkok” from the show’s 1984 concept album, went on to star in the original West End run.
By Douglas Mayo Michael Ball, Alexandra Burke, Murray Head, Tim Howar and Cassidy Janson are to star in Chess at the London Coliseum. This post Principal casting announced for Chess the musi…
Michael Ball and Alexandra Burke are to star of Chess in the West End. The revival of the musical, by Benny Andersson,
Michael Ball, Alexandra Burke and Cassidy Janson will star in the upcoming West End revival of epic musical Chess, as initial casting is confirmed today. The post Chess revival masterminds s…
The first West End production of Chess since 1986 is to star Michael Ball, Alexandra Burke, Murray Head, Tim Howar and Cassidy Janson.
OFFICIAL! Michael Ball returns to the West End stage in the first revival in over 30 years of CHESS, and he's leading a top-notch cast at the London Coliseum that also includes Alexandra Bur…
Multiple sources have revealed a starry cast for the upcoming West End production of Chess at London's Coliseum. The cast is said to includeMichael Ball The Russian, Alexandra Burke Svetlana…
Performance continue at the Kennedy Center through February 18.
Michael Mayer directs the semi-staged concert presentation of the operatic pop-rock musical that features a revised book by Danny Strong.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents the semi-staged Broadway Center Stage concert production ofCHESS, the epic rock opera about love and political intrigue set agains…
Multiple sources have revealed a starry cast for the upcoming West End production of Chess at London's Coliseum. The cast is said to includeMichael Ball The Russian, Alexandra Burke Svetlana…
In a new interview for Metro Weekly, Raul Esparza talks about bringing Chess back to the stage, as well as how important it is to perform such a politically charged musical in this day and a…
Michael Mayer directs the semi-staged concert presentation of the operatic pop-rock musical that features a revised book by Danny Strong.
The cast is yet to be officially announced
Good morning BroadwayWorld Today's top stories come out of D.C.'s Kennedy Center CHESS opens, starring Raul Esparza, Karen Olivo, and Ramin Karimloo and Corey Cott, Solea Pfeiffer and more l…