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Theater review: Yasmina Reza’s Art
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★★“Let’s end the suspense right away: All three are fine,” said Elisabeth Vincentelli in The New York Times.
Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, and James Corden headline the new Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s 1994 play about a friendship that implodes after one of the three male pals pays $300,000 for a minimalist all-white painting.
Art “satirizes the vapidity and pettiness of the upper-middle class,” but “I can’t laugh at it anymore,” said Helen Shaw in The New Yorker.
Sign upIt’s also unclear what we’re supposed to take away from this revival, said Naveen Kumar in The Washington Post.
“That’s fine on principle, but a bore,” as well as “a missed opportunity to deepen the play’s own interests.”