[Editor’s note: As of publication, and using the justification of the killing of Charlie Kirk, the administration has broadly vowed to investigate progressive groups. Set to a score by ABBA, Chess pitches a Bobby Fischer–inspired character against a Russian grand master at the height of the Cold War and will this month return to Broadway with a new book for the first time since its notorious New York opening in 1988. Intensifying everything that happens onstage is the real-world context of ongoing Ukrainian peace deal negotiations: a precedent-exploding summit in Alaska with Vladimir Putin, quickly followed by a redux of the Oval Office beratement of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was this time phalanxed by more than a half dozen world leaders (and a suit).
Author: Mark Guiducci
Published at: 2025-09-16 22:09:08
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