JoJo has been left devastated after Broadway musical Chess announced its closure just hours before she was due to begin rehearsals. The 35-year-old singer - whose real name is Joanna Levesque - was ...

Before October of 2025, I had admittedly never heard of Chess: The Musical. I had seen much of the cast already–Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher in Sweeney Todd, Bryce Pinkham in Little Shop of ...

Chess matches can be agonizingly long, lasting for numerous hours at the professional level. So maybe it’s perversely apt that the Broadway revival of the musical “Chess” should feel eye-glazingly ...

The long-awaited Broadway revival of Chess opened on Sunday, Nov. 16 at the Imperial Theatre in New York City, marking the first full-scale return of the cult-favorite musical in nearly four decades.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The final performance of Broadway's Chess was announced Tuesday. The June 21 show is just two days before singer JoJo was ...

Regardless of the version, there is a compelling human drama at the center of “Chess,” floating atop some killer songs and an often gorgeous score. In its sweeping musical moments (“Nobody’s Side,” ...

The musical starring Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, brought in the total across just four preview performances. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Chess brought in a strong $1.2 ...

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 ...

JoJo addressed the early closure of the Broadway show Chess, for which she was set to join. The 35-year-old, born Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, was supposed to replace Lea Michele on the Broadway production ...

In 2015, it all seemed to be a novel concept. That’s the year Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated Marjorie Prime premiered Off-Broadway. Certainly, artificial intelligence had been developed, ...