Behind the Hotly Anticipated Revival of ‘Art’ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Coming to Broadway

On the hottest day in New York in over a decade, James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris, and Bobby Cannavale—the cast of the first Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s play Art —have gathered in a lower Manhattan studio space. Corden has recently flown in from London, and the men are only on their third day of table work, with full rehearsals not set to begin for another month. Joining them at the read-throughs have been the playwright, Reza herself, in from Paris, and the veteran stage director Scott Ellis, recently known for his Broadway revival of Doubt. The studio does not seem to be much cooler than the sweltering street. Corden and Harris are in shorts; Cannavale, in long pants and a baseball cap, looks, frankly, a bit overheated. Even the patch of exposed brick on the studio wall seems