Bobby Cannavale, James Corden & Neil Patrick Harris are the cast of the first Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s play ART that begins previews August 28th at the Music Box Theatre in NYC for a limited run September 16th to December 21st. Directed by Scott Ellis ART is about 3 longtime friends & one ridiculously expensive painting. Question being is it art or is it just the world’s priciest inside joke. What begins as a polite debate over aesthetics & taste devolves into a clash of egos & resentments that challenges their friendship in 100 minutes of minimalist art, maximalist laughs & a moving look at what we really see & forgive in the people we love. Corden stated, “This is it. My ideal play. Art is a spiky, provocative, delightful show, unusually durable: one of the most produced plays in the world & translated into 30 languages. The Broadway version, wittily & urbanely translated from French by Christopher Hampton, won the Tony for best play. I still quote from it. That’s how hard Art hit. Do we really love our friends, or do we just love the flattering version of ourselves they reflect back? Is every friendship, at bottom, a power struggle? Funny, fast & tragic—100 minutes with no intermission. ‘The perfect evening.” Cannavale concluded, “It’s really less about the art than it is about what this painting does to the friendship. I don’t know how anybody could sit in that theater & not think about how they’ve experienced something similar with a friend. I know I have. I’ve been all three of these guys at some point in my life.”
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