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11/23/2025

This Week on Broadway for November 23, 2025: Chess

11/21/2025

No contest, baby!

"That must be one of the most impossible things to do, write a musical about chess," said ABBA's Benny Andersson, when Tim Rice approached Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. "So we said, 'Yeah, let's do that!'"

As "Chess" opens its first ever Broadway revival, has the story about how this the musical about a board game, which only had 68 performances on Broadway, became a cult classic.

Read the story, then check out the Martha Swope photos in our archive from the original production.

📷 Philip Casnoff, Judy Kuhn & David Carroll in "Chess."

11/17/2025

Listen on BroadwayRadio: This Week on Broadway for November 16, 2025: The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Company

11/09/2025

This Week on Broadway for November 9, 2025: Out of the Box Theatrics’ production of Beau: The Musical

10/26/2025

This Week on Broadway for October 26, 2025: Oh Happy Day @ The Public Theater

Playwright and actor Jordan E. Cooper in rehearsal for the New York premiere production of OH HAPPY DAY!, directed by Stevie Walker-Webb. Photo credit: Joan Marcus

10/26/2025

It is **a little** off topic for us... but...

10/05/2025

This Week on Broadway for October 5, 2025: Punch @ Manhattan Theatre Club

09/29/2025

09/28/2025

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Hills of California @ Huntington Theatre Company, Art @ Music Box Theatre, Slanted Floors @ 1006 Manhattan Ave in Brooklyn, The Sound of Music Movie 60th Anniversary (Fathom Events), Color Theories By Julio Torres @ Performance Space New York, Phoenix Productions Fiddler on the Roof @ Count Basie Center for the Arts, and Turandot @ Metropolitan Opera.

09/28/2025

This Week on Broadway for September 21, 2025: Saturday Church @ NYTW

09/15/2025

This Week on Broadway for September 14, 2025: Galas @ Little Island
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Galas @ Little Island, Sober Songs @ Theater Row, Karaoke With Broadway Stars, Sweet Charity (movie), and House of McQueen at The Mansion at Hudson Yards

09/07/2025

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Well, I’ll Let You Go @ The Space at Irondale, Rolling Thunder @ New World Stages, The Brothers Size @ The Shed, Play On @ Signature Theatre (DC), This is Government @ 59e59, Galas @ Little Island, and 2006 Hollywood Bowl production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC