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'Chess' Review: Lea Michele Reigns as Queen of This Uneven Broadway Revival

by Gordon Cox

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 the Cold War chess rivalry between Freddie Trumper (Aaron Tveit) of the US and Anatoly Sergievsky (Nicholas […]

SOURCE: Variety at 11:00pm on November 16, 2025