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Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail
Twenty-five years ago this week,
2 Pianos, 4 Hands premiered at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto – and the play for two actor-pianists has hardly ever not been onstage somewhere since then.
Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt’s co-written coming-of-age comedy about two boys passionately pursuing and eventually painfully letting go of their dreams of being concert pianists has been seen by close to two million people over its roughly 4,000 performances to this point, according to its producers.
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Chess has a long history at MIT that began decades before 62 million households tuned in to Netflix’s miniseries “The Queen s Gambit.”
Though the show ranked as Netflix’s No. 1 in 63 countries within its first month, and sparked a global surge in the sale of chess sets and books, several members of MIT’s chess club say, with a laugh, that they haven’t seen it yet.
Tyrone Davis III, a junior computer science major, a U.S. National Chess Master, and the president of MIT’s chess club, says he plans to watch the miniseries eventually. For now, he says it’s been exciting to see growing public interest around the game he’s been playing since middle school.