Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris will return to Broadway this fall within the first-ever Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning Art by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton.
Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis (Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Take Me Out) will direct, with previews to start at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre on Thursday, August 28, with an official opening night time on Tuesday, September 16. The manufacturing will play a restricted 17-week engagement by means of December 21.
The announcement was made in the present day by producers Sand & Snow Entertainment (Michael Shulman), ATG Productions and Gavin Kalin Productions.
“On behalf of my partners Adam Speers, Gavin Kalin, and myself, we are thrilled to be producing the first-ever Broadway revival of this iconic Tony-Award winning play with three iconic, award-winning actors, Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris, under the helm of the legendary Scott Ellis,” mentioned producer Michael Shulman. “Ever since I first saw the original production, it has been etched into my mind as a hysterical and moving portrayal of friendship, compromise, and the power of art to change perspectives.”
Reza’s play premiered in 1994 at Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris, with English-language variations debuting in London in 1996 and on Broadway in 1998. The Broadway manufacturing starred Alan Alda, Victor Garber and Alfred Molina.
The comedy follows three longtime pals and what occurs when one makes an extravagant buy of a very white portray, resulting in intense disagreements over what constitutes artwork. Ego and cash come into play, after all.
Cannavale, who will play the character Marc, final appeared on Broadway in 2018’s The Lifespan of a Fact. Among his 5 Broadway appearances are Tony-nominated performances in 2009’s Mauritius and 2011’s The Motherf*cker With The Hat. TV and movie credit embrace Boardwalk Empire, The Watcher and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.
Corden, who will play Yvan, made his Broadway debut in 2006’s The History Boys, and gained a Tony Award for One Man, Two Guvnors in 2012. Corden hosted CBS’ The Late Late Show with James Corden from 2015 to 2023.
Harris, forged because the art-buying Serge, made his Broadway debut in 2003 in Cabaret, returning 4 instances together with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for which he gained a Tony in 2014. Harris is a five-time Emmy Award-winner greatest identified to TV audiences for How I Met Your Mother.
The design group for Art will likely be introduced at a later date.