It 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 show, headlined ...

How do you solve a problem like “Chess”? With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim Rice, and now with a new version of Rice’s book by Danny Strong, “Chess” tells of ...

A superb cast of West End stars including James Fox (Fame Academy, Jesus Christ Superstar), Shona White (Wicked), Tam Mutu (Love Never Dies), Rebecca Lock (The Phantom of the Opera, Avenue Q), James ...

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 ...