Iam among the many potential audience members for “ Art ,” the new revival of Yazmina Reza’s sly, knowing play, who has never thought much about James Corden . That’s not to say I haven’t thought much of him — from what clips I’ve seen of his now-concluded CBS talk show, he seems game and winning. Unfortunately, his Tony-winning turn in “One Man, Two Guvnors,” in 2012, predates my peak theatergoing years; to many in my cohort, Corden was a content-generation machine, ginning up “Carpool Karaoke” segments that were fun but ephemeral.

Some two years removed from the end of his “Late Late Show,” Corden is reasserting himself as a major theater actor, and his turn as the wobbliest vertex of a friendship triangle would, alone, make the new production of this slippery social satire worth

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