Idon’t think I’d consider Yasmina Reza’s Art a masterpiece, though after seeing the sharp new Broadway production of the play starring Bobby Cannavale , James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris I’d probably think twice about expressing such an opinion in the company of these characters.

What Art is is an always sturdy play, sometimes a quite fine one, with a reputation that’s only grown in the years since its 1990s premieres in Paris, London and on Broadway. A sleek, modernist little dagger of a play that uses, effectively, the subject of art – more specifically, the subject of our opinions about art – to delve into (eviscerate, really) the bonds and frailties of friendship. You want to know just how strong the ties that bind really aren’t? Trying telling your best friend what y

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