What does a painting mean? What does friendship comprise? What does money buy us? How do we measure value? What should something cost?

The still-striking thing about Yasmina Reza’s much-performed Tony-award winning play, Art, is that it plonks these questions—very seriously and very wittily—into the center of a friendship between three men that spans warm, toxic, and transactional.

The really great thing in this all-star revival (Music Box Theatre, booking to Dec. 21) is those men are played by Bobby Cannavale, Neil Patrick Harris, and James Corden, the latter serving up an early-season comedy masterclass.

The play, which was first performed in 1994, seems initially too simple. Three men are trying to understand why one of their number, Serge (Harris), has bought a painting. It’s an al

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