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Setting the Board: Bryce Pinkham Guides the Audience Through Chess on Broadway

by Beth Stevens

Bryce Pinkham has been living with Chess for nearly a decade. "I've been working on it with [writer] Danny Strong and [director] Michael Mayer since the Kennedy Center," he says. "It's almost 10 years now. We've gone back and forth on it for a long time," the actor told Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens. Pinkham plays the Arbiter, the referee of the title game and the show's primary guide. "I think of him as…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32pm on December 23, 2025