Art Revival
Closing: December 21, 2025Art - 2025 Broadway History , Info & More
Music Box Theatre (Broadway)
239 West 45th St. New York, NY
How much would you pay for a white painting? Would it matter who the painter was? Would it be art? One of Marc's best friends, Serge, has just bought a very expensive painting. It's about five feet by four, all white with white diagonal lines. To Marc, the painting is a joke, but Serge insists Marc doesn't have the proper standard to judge the work. Another friend, Ivan, though burdened by his own problems, allows himself to be pulled into this disagreement. Eager to please, Ivan tells Serge he likes the painting. Lines are drawn and these old friends square off over the canvas, using it as an excuse to relentlessly batter one another over various failures. As their arguments become less theoretical and more personal, they border on destroying their friendships. At the breaking point, Serge hands Marc a felt tip pen and dares him: "Go on." This is where the friendship is finally tested, and the aftermath of action, and its reaction, affirms the power of those bonds.
Art - 2025 - Broadway Cast
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Art review — James Corden is the standout in a zippy Broadway show
8 / 10
With this script and a minimalist staging — every scene takes place in one of the men’s living rooms — Art is entirely reliant on the quality of its cast. Corden is, unsurprisingly, the stand-out: at one point he bursts in and unleashes a rib-cracking five-minute monologue about stepmothers and wedding invitations in which he barely pauses to breathe. Cannavale is a charismatic, flabbergasted straight man with hidden wounds; Harris, at times, felt a bit mannered.
Yasmina Reza’s Art Returns, Loaded With Blanks
4 / 10
Reza, though, doesn’t get into it, apart from making some easy jabs at “conceptual art” and “deconstruction” and the chichi gallery world. These things aren’t legitimate concerns but coat hooks on which to hang generic contention and an overall icky view of human nature — which is why some of the play’s actually funniest stuff, in both writing and performance, occurs in a frantic two-page monologue delivered by Yvan, who hurtles into Serge’s apartment mid-meltdown over complications with his upcoming wedding. Corden makes big, broad, breathless work of the set piece, eventually crash-landing in a chair to well-earned applause. It works because it’s played well but also because it has nothing to do with the matter at hand. Neither does anything else, but at least here, the disregard is genuine.
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